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Marvel Team-Up 100 |
| Item: |
Marvel Team-Up 100 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0968246012
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Owner Comments
If you're a New Mutants fan like me, then you MUST own this comic!!!
This is an absolutely perfect comic! Centered beautifully and no outwardly visible defects through the plastic. Must've been either something internal or ever so slight surface imperfection that caused the grade to not reach 9.9 or 10! BEAUTIFUL!!!
Published: 12/80
Chris Claremont story
Frank Miller, Bob Wiacek & John Byrne
art. Frank Miller & Klaus Janson cover
Pedigree: Western Penn
Key Issue: Fantastic Four. Origin & 1st appearance
of Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh). X-Men cameo.
Black Panther/Storm backup story.
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| Slot: |
Marvel Team-Up Annual 6 |
| Item: |
Marvel Team-Up Annual 6 |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0218813009
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Owner Comments
It's got The New Mutants! What other reason do I need to have it?
Published: 1983
Bill Mantlo story
Ron Frenz & Kevin Dzuban art
Signed by Ron Frenz and editor, Tom DeFalco!
Key Issue:
Spider-Man, New Mutants and
Cloak and Dagger appearance.
Pin-ups by Jim Mooney and Don Perlin
The second image is actually two partial pages put together from the actual comic.
Story Title: The Hunters and the Hunted!
Summary:
Spider-Man runs into Cloak & Dagger in a warehouse district & helps them take down a gang of car thieves.
They find a bunch of teenagers dead in the warehouse, supposedly from a drug testing just like the one that created Cloak & Dagger.
Meanwhile, the New Mutants, Sam (Cannonball), Dani (Mirage), Rahne (Wolfsbane) & Bobby (Sunspot), are in New York and have seen a broadway show & then get into a scrape at an arcade that turns into a huge street brawl resulting in Bobby & Rahne being knocked out & taken away by some mysterious figures right under the noses of the others, who then endeavor to track them down.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man discovers Cloak & Dagger's hiding place in a local catholic church just as Sam & Dani happen to show up by chance & run into Spider-Man & everyone else.
With a bunch of explanations about the mutant's missing friends, the drug testing, the possible danger to Bobby & Rahne & the need to find out who's behind it all, Cloak & Danger vanish & Spidey & the others go out together to follow.
Later, at a meat plant, Bobby & Rahne are restrained on a butcher block by a doctor & his group, who have been trying to repeat the process that created Cloak & Dagger in order to create another, even more powerful weapon that would be subservient to the drug & them. They inject the kids with the drug & suddenly everyone else shows up & battle breaks out.
During the scuffle, Rahne & Bobby transform into out-of-control beings with heightened powers (check out the second image). Rahne then bites Dagger & while Rahne becomes normal again, Dagger receives the effect of the drug, making HER more powerful & out-of-control!
Cloak then envelops Bobby in his cape & Bobby comes out fine, but Cloak is then encumbered with the drug's effect.
With the others looking on, Cloak & Dagger go at each other with their enhanced light & darkness powers & wind up canceling each other out.
Spider-Man then tells Cloak & Dagger that they MIGHT be mutants & should at least consider going to Xavier's school to learn more about their powers, but they decide against it & disappear.
PERSONAL NOTES:
I'm not sure exactly when this issue came out, though I know it was somewhere within the first 8 issues or so of the New Mutants because:
#1) It was published in 1983 and
#2) Amara (Magma) wasn't a member of the group yet.
It's probably best to read this issue right after New Mutants
#4, which is a stand alone issue right before the storyline that leads up to Amara being introduced to the group.
When I was a teenager just getting into comics, it was because of the New Mutants series that I went & got my hands on a copy of THIS issue due to a reference about a drug that was used on Bobby and Rahne.
Being a collector & a completist, I just HAD to get a copy of this & find out what had happened!
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