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Marvel Team-Up #46
Issue(s): Marvel Team-Up #46
Cover Date: Jun 76
Title: " ...Am I now or have I ever been?"
Credits:
Bill Mantlo - Writer
Sal Buscema - Penciler
Mike Esposito - Inker
Review/plot:
Spider-Man continues to use his time travel romp to give a little love to Marvel's alternate future books, this time meeting Deathlok in 1990.
Not a lot to look at from our perspective. Spidey teams-up with Deathlok but doesn't like his lethal methods or the fact that he's fighting mind-controlled children, so he tells Deathlok to take his fight to the guy causing all the problems, which is presumably what Deathlok does in Astonishing Tales #36.
It's a decent story and i liked that panel above with Spidey asking about himself.
Quality Rating: C
Historical Significance Rating: 1
Chronological Placement Considerations: Spidey is still traveling through time and shouldn't appear in any other books until his return to the present day in Marvel Two-In-One #17. Not including Deathlok in the Characters Appearing since he's a time-travel "local" but he appears here during Astonishing Tales #36.
References:
- The events of Astonishing Tales #33-36 are briefly summarized.
Crossover: N/A
Continuity Insert? N
My Reprint: N/A
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Comments
You know seeing that Deathlok was from 1990 and by then we would have Cable and a whole bunch of bizarre Liefeldian monstrosities (and Deadpool), I sort of wonder if this was really someone seeing into the future of what comic books of the time would be like.
(boy it's going to be fun when you get to Liefeld)
Shouldn't Deathlok be listed as a character appearing?
Fnord currently has a policy of not tracking future, historical, or alternate-universe characters when they are in their own time/dimension. I was recently reminded of this due to the Deathlok/Coldblood discussion.
The cubes used by the cannibals don't appear in Deathlok's main series, and the confrontation with Ryker mentioned on the last page had already happened by the time this was published(which Mantlo had to know about, as he replaced Doug Moench as scripter.)
