| Schedule: | Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: Quarterly Super-Villain Team-Up: Bimonthly (#1–14) Irregularly (#15–17) Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Monthly |
| Format: | Super-Villain Team-Up: Ongoing series Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: Mini-series |
| Publisher: | Marvel Comics |
| Date: | Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: March 1975 – June 1975 Super-Villain Team-Up: August 1975 – June 1980 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: July 2007 – November 2007 |
| Issues: | Giant-Size Super-Villain Team-Up: 2 Super-Villain Team-Up: 17 Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11: 5 |
| Tpb: | Essential Super-Villain Team-Up |
| Isbn: | 978-0785115458 |
| Tpb1: | Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11 |
| Isbn1: | 978-0785119920 |
Super-Villain Team-Up is the name of two American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Both series featured supervillains as the protagonists.
The first series started in 1975 with two giant-size issues before launching as a regular series,[1] and was mostly bi-monthly during its existence. It initially teamed up Doctor Doom and the Sub-Mariner, who had lost his own series, from which it picked up the unresolved plots, especially that of the comatose Atlanteans. After a succession of writers and artists and a crossover with The Avengers, the plot gets resolved in issue #13 when Doctor Doom revives the Atlanteans, thus dissolving his alliance with the Sub-Mariner.
Issue #14 (Oct. 1977), which featured Magneto and Doctor Doom, was billed as the final issue of the series[2] and its plotline was resolved in The Champions #16. The following year, SVTU continued with issue #15 (Nov. 1978), a reprint of Astonishing Tales #4–5. Issues #16 (May 1979) and #17 (June 1980) featured the Red Skull and the Hate-Monger. The irregular publishing frequency of the final three issues was due to a legal maneuver to prevent DC Comics from trademarking the term "super-villain".[3] The series saw the death of the Sub-Mariner's 1940s sweetheart Betty Dean and the death of her murderer, Doctor Dorcas. Steve Englehart created The Shroud,[4] a character partly inspired by Batman,[5] shortly before he started to work for DC Comics on Detective Comics.[6]
| Issue | Cover date | Character | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giant–Size #1 | March 1975 | new framing story by writer Roy Thomas and artists John Buscema and Joe Sinnott. Reprints Sub-Mariner #20 (December 1969) and Marvel Super-Heroes #20 (May 1969). | ||
| Giant–Size #2 | June 1975 | vs. the Doomsman | ||
| August 1975 | vs. Attuma, Doctor Dorcas, and Tiger Shark | ||
| October 1975 | |||
| December 1975 | |||
| February 1976 | |||
| April 1976 | vs. the Fantastic Four | ||
| June 1976 | vs. the Fantastic Four and the Shroud | ||
| August 1976 | vs. the Shroud | ||
| October 1976 | vs. the Ringmaster | ||
| December 1976 | vs. Attuma. Crossover with The Avengers #154–156 (Dec. 1976–Feb. 1977) | ||
| February 1977 | vs. the Red Skull | ||
| April 1977 | Red Skull | ||
| June 1977 | |||
| August 1977 | Sub-Mariner | vs. Warlord Krang | |
| October 1977 | Magneto | crossover with The Champions #16 (November 1977) | |
| November 1978 | Red Skull | reprints Astonishing Tales #4 (February 1971) and #5 (April 1971) | |
| May 1979 | Red Skull | Hate-Monger | |
| June 1980 | also featuring Arnim Zola | ||
In 2007 Marvel published Super-Villain Team-Up: MODOK's 11, a five-issue miniseries featuring 11 supervillains in the manner of the movie Ocean's Eleven.
This 2009 miniseries features Doctor Doom working with other villains.
. Peter Sanderson. Gilbert. Laura. 1970s. Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. Dorling Kindersley. 2008. London, United Kingdom. 168. 978-0756641238. After two giant-size issues, Super-Villain Team-Up switched to a thirty-two-page format in August [1975]..