Comments on: The Top 15 Best Team-Up Book Runs: # 15-14

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:45:14 +0000

I appear to be in the minority here, but I loved the Superman/Flash story from the first two issues of DCCP.
Martin Pasko takes the two heroes to the end of time and back, throwing in cameos from the LSH and Professor Zoom and a couple of warring alien races to boot. This is the kind of wild, everything but the kitchen sink type of story that makes superhero comics so much fun. Grant Morrison tried to pull off this kind of thing in his later issues of JLA, but those stories overwhelm with their frenetic pacing, where Pasko’s tale never does.

By: kalorama

kalorama — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:43:26 +0000

Impressive list, but in the name of accuracy I feel compelled to point out that the panel of Stegron and Spidey from MTU isn’t Gil Kane. It’s Ross Andru.

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By: Wade AuCoin

Wade AuCoin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:29:00 +0000

My votes are the following:

1. Bob Haney and Jim Aparo’s Brave and the Bold

2. Claremont and Byrne on Marvel Team-up

3. Gruenwald, Macchio with Byrne, Perez and Wilson as artists on Marvel Two-in-one

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Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:51:25 +0000

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By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:30:38 +0000

…why is Stegron rubbing his crotch against Spidey’s bum?

It means “I AM AWESOME!” in Stegosaurian.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:38:36 +0000

…why is Stegron rubbing his crotch against Spidey’s bum?

By: Scott D!

Scott D! — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:20:18 +0000

Great lists! I think Claremont and Byrne’s run on Marvel Team-Up should be pretty high.

By: T.

T. — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:58:28 +0000

Garcia Lopez is, oddly, best known as the bronze age artist who most deserves to be better known. He’s got a legion of in-the-industry fans, but that never translated into the culture at large acclaim you’d figure this gent deserves. He’s GOOD, and I’m going to try to prove that *you* should join the fan-chorus.

I don’t know why people find it so odd that Garcia-Lopez is so little known. He did all his work at DC and as far as I know, none at Marvel. If you want to do a DC-only career, especially during the years he worked when virtually no one thought DC comics were cool, you need to do a solid notable run on Batman or Superman, or maybe even Flash or Green Lantern, which he never did. He was being primed to be the main Superman artist once Curt Swan retired, but Crisis and the recruitment of John Byrne to do Man of Steel changed that. If that happened maybe things would have turned out differently for Garcia-Lopez.

Nowadays I think an artist can do a DC-only career and still become a star. Not so much back then.

By: Brad Curran

Brad Curran — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:05:25 +0000

I bough the first Marvel Two-In-One trade for the Gerber stories. Really dig those, and I’m not a huge team up fan like you are. I do love some Gerber, though.

By: Dave Lane

Dave Lane — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:22:07 +0000

For every really good Garcia-Lopez issue of DCCP, there were way too many issues of not so good art, sadly mostly from Joe Staton. Now Staton is is very good at what he does, especially when he inks himself or has a good inker like Frank McLaughlin or Dick Giordano but too often his DCCP issues were obviously rushed and then sketchily inked by Frank Chiramonte which did not pair up well with Staton’s style. (And at least one issue, Staton was inked by Vinnie Colletta–ugh!). As for the stories (particularly a lot of Gerry Conway’s issues), for comic books, they were worse than bad, they were…dull. Still, some good memories re: DCCP, The Starlin issues standout. The trilogy with Len Wein scripting and cool team ups with J’onn J’onzz and Supergirl and the mind bending conclusion with the Spectre, And of course the GL team up issue scripted by Marv Wolfman which also featured the first ever Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:57:57 +0000

Mary Warner- I don’t have any access to any color Wundarr stories, and that was the best picture I could find on Google image search. MTIO didn’t have a good Wundarr cover, more’s the pity. And, man, those first few Dematties stories were rough-going. I dunno….

Michael P – And now the books migrated to the bottom of the pile, but I’m fairly sure there wasn’t a third wise-man. There really should have been.

Black Manta – I think my first subscription was Marvel Team-Up, but it got killed for Web of Spider-man and I was mad. Strange you mentioned He-man… Man, I’ve heard lots of hate for the two Masters of the Universe issues, and I really dig ‘em.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:30:00 +0000

never much liked marvel two in one execpt for the thing giving Valkerie a shoulder to cry on and find superman teaming up with the joker hilerious for loved brave and the bold. nice choices

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:04:55 +0000

I’ll be the blasphemer here and say that I’d personally put Bendis above either Haney run.

But as long as the Wein DCCP run shows up I’ll be happy.

(I wonder: do the Power Company prequels count as a team-up book run?)

By: Michael Xavier

Michael Xavier — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:37:02 +0000

I wonder if The Thing, who is Jewish, is confronted at the religious dilemma of being one of the three wise men at Jesus’ birth.

I’d say that would leave me a bit torn.

By: Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:19:34 +0000

Why doesn’t Ghost Rider’s headdress catch fire?

By: wrecksracer

wrecksracer — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:43:32 +0000

I remember reading my brother’s collection of Supervillain Team Up when I was a kid. Doom and Namor! I really don’t remember much more about them, though….

By: Bernard the Poet

Bernard the Poet — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:55:24 +0000

Haney & Adams at no.1. Haney & Aparo at no.2. Any other result would be insanity.