Issue(s): Super-Villain Team-Up #8
Cover Date: Oct 76
Title: "Escape!"
Credits:
Steve Englehart - Writer
Keith Giffen - Penciler
Owen McCarron - Inker

Review/plot:
Dr. Doom, still a prisoner of Namora, pretends to work on a cure for the amphibians while coordinating with Boris via a secret comm link.

Meanwhile the Sub-Mariner and the Shroud get chased by a Latverian mob. They take refuge at a traveling circus, which of course is run by the Ringmaster.

The Shroud looks ridiculous wearing a muscleman shirt and a hat that provides just the right amount of shading over his eyes at all times. In the circus' final performance before leaving the country, "Doom" shows up.

Namor, who is only with Shroud because he thought Doom was dead, goes to return to "Doom" because of his vows, but Shroud attacks him from behind, leading "Doom" to wonder what the hell's going on.

We'll learn next issue that this "Doom" isn't a Doombot, it's Prince Rudolfo, disguised as a Doombot.

Keith Giffen does fill-in art for this issue. Some of the faces look a little stiff and awkward but otherwise it looks professional.

Quality Rating: C-

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This issue ends on a cliffhanger, but issue #9 is also a crossover with Avengers #154, so i've placed the Avengers issue in between Super-Villain Team-Up #8 and 9.

References:

• The occupants of Hydro-base were turned into amphibians in Sub-Mariner #61.
  
• Namor became reliant on Doom's treatments in Super-Villain Team-Up #5.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A