Marvel Team-Up #89 featuring Spider-Man and Nightcrawler
January 1980
"SHOOT-OUT OVER CENTER RING!"
Nightcrawler & Spider-Man battle Cutthroat at the Madison Square Garden circus!
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Summary:
Nightcrawler greets his girlfriend, Amanda Sefton, at New York's Kennedy International Airport and notices villains Arcade & Miss Locke aboard their personal aircraft. Upon sneaking aboard, they learn that Amos Jardine is angry with Arcade for failing to kill Spider-Man, with Jardine assigning new villain Cutthroat to get the job done instead. Nightcrawler notes that Jardine once ran the circus he performed for before joining the X-Men. Jardine lures Spider-Man into a trap at his circus inside Madison Square Garden, where Nightcrawler and Spidey eventually defeat Cutthroat. Jardine's abduction of Amanda is foiled by an unexpected assist to the heroes from a vindictive Arcade.
Issue Notes:
First appearance of Cutthroat, who becomes an adversary of Captain America and the Avengers. He looks like an unmasked Doctor Doom in purple & green here.
This is Chris Claremont's final issue as regular writer of Marvel Team-Up although he'll return for the 100th issue at the end of the year.
Bullpen Bulletins:
Marvel hypes a ton of upcoming film and TV projects, some of which never happened.
Silver Surfer - Hyped as the next Star Wars blockbuster movie, Marvel claimed this would be in theaters in 1982. Planned to be a "cosmic rock opera" style film. Never happened.
Spider-Man - Would have two animated series with Spider-Man (syndicated) and Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends (on NBC).
Daredevil - This ABC cartoon planned featuring a superhero guide dog never happened. He appears in one episode of Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends.
Thor - Never happened. Appeared in two episodes of Spider-Man's two series.
Captain America - Never happened. Appeared in three episodes of Spider-Man's two series.
Stan Lee has moved to Los Angeles to help setup Marvel's film division.
Marvel urges fans to seek out "comic shops" in their towns and order comics by mail from dealers to catch up on back issues.
Overall Grade: C+
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