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Marvel Team-Up #52Issue(s): Marvel Team-Up #52 Review/plot: Spider-Man is swinging around when he notices one of the monsters coming out of the dimension that Captain America was trapped in during Captain America #201-203. ![]() Captain America, and the band of crazies he was stuck with, soon follow. ![]() Spider-Man tries to tell Captain America about the monster, but Cap is preoccupied by the Falcon's madness... ![]() ...and Spider-Man winds up just swinging off. And that's how it comes to be that the demon teams up with Batroc! ![]() I don't like the depiction of Batroc in this issue. I like my Batroc to be a little more honorable, and less a thief for his own sake than someone who rents out his fighting ability as a mercenary. But in this story, he's out for himself. I have no problem with him befriending a lost monster, though. ![]() Together, they try to steal some trans-uranium from a SHIELD hovercraft. ![]() Unfortunately, Captain America and Spider-Man show up to ruin their fun. ![]() ![]() Batroc is defeated easily enough, but the monster starts glowing and runs away. ![]() This seems to be due to the monster's incompatibility with our world, and not because of the trans-uranium. I hoped the alien being a threat to our world might translate into Batroc teaming up with our heroes, but no dice. ![]() Instead, despite some concern that the creature is just lost and confused... ![]() ...Captain America and Spider-Man kill it by blowing up a boat. ![]() Silly fun (as long as we accept that the monster really was a killer, as Spider-Man concludes, and not a confused innocent), and i of course love the integration with Kirby's Captain America as well as the tie-ins with Spider-Man's regular books (see the References below). But it would have been better as a 12 issue series detailing the hijinks of Batroc and his alien monster friend. Quality Rating: C+ Chronological Placement Considerations: This continues from Captain America #203. But this story also takes place after Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #1, which takes place during Amazing Spider-Man #163. So it's wheels within wheels, or at least issues within issues, and i've left some space between Cap #203 and this story. Which is fine because interdimensional teleportation doesn't have to be instantaneous. References:
Crossover: N/A Continuity Insert? N My Reprint: N/A
CommentsBatroc calls the monster "Mon Cheri"? A subsequent letter criticized the monster's change in appearance between Kirby's Cap and here: he changed color, lost some toes, and could no longer fly. This issue has excessive Backg-Hunting. And in the panels where Batroc is captured, we get signs saying Kane, Mortimer, Robinson, and Fing(er)--all of whom were guys that did Batman in the Golden Age. No idea why Dave Hunt put those in there... Posted by: Mark Drummond | February 19, 2015 11:27 AM The monster looks suspiciously like a redrawn Abomination. Posted by: Chris | July 7, 2016 5:06 PM you think after the silly story of Batroc with the fake Stranger they would realise that "Batroc + alien = a bad story." Posted by: kveto | February 5, 2018 8:32 AM Comments are now closed. |
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