# 10?

http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Individual/2005_07/000874.php

Yeah, I pretty much need to own this.

Lee
That’s funny…. when I first saw the cover for MTIO 91, my first thought was, “It’s the Sphinx.” I *never* thought the guest star might be Batman. In fact, the fact that such a thing was implied I never even guessed until I read this column. But now it seems obvious. Boy, am I dumb.

On the other hand... You were absolutely right, and I was completely wrong. :

DunC
I used to have a thing for hoovering up all the crossovers I could find (either inter company or inter film franchise). I eventually gave up in favour of runs of individuals I liked (and an over abundance of Aliens and Predator).
Got some good books out of it though. The GI Joe/Transformers set in WW2 is great and the first Batman/Predator is art. Proper, no bull, art.

One of those was Dave Gibbons and Andy Kubert, right? (Dunno if it was the first one.) That was all kinds of cool. Maybe I'll do crossovers next.

gaastra
Don’t forget the web of spider-man issues with the outlaws. Plus superman vs spider-man and didn’t spidey team up with a bunch of heroes in the return of the sinister six story? What about the new fantastic four or that avengers issue were captain america, ant-man, captain marvel/ rick jones, and silverclaw teamed up only to find out “cap” was the taskmaster?

Plus there was the misfits in amazing spider-man and in an issue of marvel age, plus the new warriors had some team-up stories.

The Marvel Age one might count. The others, like Fantastic Four, I'm arbitrarily excluding. If it was called "Fantastic Four Family" or "Fantastic Four team-up" it'd be on the list. (Because, y'know, I've already GOT more than 750 books on my list.)

Tom
How about DC’s Double-Shot specials from the 90’s? There were about 4 from 98…they weren’t bad.

Oh shoot. I own the Atom/Impulse one and I'd seen the Robin one, but I wrote them off as one-shots. But if their were four of them (and they were named as a group) that counts for serial nature. I'll edit them on.

Holy f-ing god. That's the kind of stuff I started my spree for.

TMNT also teamed up with Cerebus & the Flaming Carrot.

Didn't the ninja turtles team up with a few other comics? In an issue of garfield magazine back in the 80s they did a comic story called "garfield meets the teenage mutant ninja turtles"!!! Garfield even gets a ninja weapon (a pizza cutter) and tries to steal the turtles pizza at one point!

Plus there was the misfits in amazing spider-man and in an issue of marvel age, plus the new warriors had some team-up stories.

And I've been looking for more non-Marvel/DC team-up books, but couldn't find any. Crossroads is definitely going on the list.

Secret Society....etc... feels more like a team book, with Captain Comet and friends being incidentals.

Maybe I should try and do all the crossovers, though, so I have complete stories. At least all the non-major event Legends/Crisis/Secret Wars crossovers. And probably not the stuff like the Golem and the Scarecrow Demon stories that were started elsewhere and wrapped up i Two In One. Lemme see.... you're right that Secret Society crossed over with Super-Team Family... Super Villain Team-Up crossed over with the Avengers, John Byrne's Action crossed over with Booster Gold and I think the main Superman title, Marvel Two In One Annual Crossed over with Fantastic Four Annual, (and Two In One crossed over with Team-Up. )

There's probably a bunch more that I'm blanking. If there's not TOO many, I'll probably count 'em.

The Guest Star in Marvel Two In One 91 was. indeed, the Sphinx. (Who I'd never even HEARD of before. Super-lame.)

Deadpool and not Cable does look like a team-up book. I'll edit it onto the list.

DC Showcase feels more like a try-out book than a team-up book, if that makes any sense. I have a few issues of the Silver Age Showcase on my list with Doctor Fate and Hourman but I read they were originally supposed to be published in Brave and the Bold, but got bumped for a Metamorpho solo story in 57-58. So they kind of counted as Brave and the Bolds.

Marvel Action Universe is a one-shot, which I arbitrarily excluded. (Mostly because I couldn't think of all the ways to catalog them.)

I'm also excluding any book that has the name of one character in the title, and since Alpha Flight is a team, I'm sticking it under the same umbrella-rule. This sounds closer to the team-up book model than the examples I gave Wonder Woman, Marvel Adventures Hulk... But not quite.

If 15 or 16 were called Alpha Flight Family I'd count them.

Does anyone happen to know off the top of their heads WHICH Marvel Comics Presents issues would count? I have # 100, which is a pretty cool Wolverine/Ghost Rider/Doctor Doom/Nightmare team-up, all drawn by Sam Keith. I didn't know there were more like it.