Superior Spider-Man Team-Up

Publication dateJuly 2013 – April 2014No. of issues12Creative teamWritten byChristopher Yost (#1–2, 5–8)
Robert Rodi (#3–4)
Kevin Shinick (#9–12)Artist(s)David Lopez (#1)
Marco Checchetto (#2, 5–12)
Mike Del Mundo (#3–4)Inker(s)Andy OwensLetterer(s)Joe CaramagnaColorist(s)Rachelle Rosenberg

Superior Spider-Man Team-Up was an ongoing comic book series published by Marvel Comics that debuted in July 2013. The series is written by Christopher Yost with artwork by a rotating team of artists including David Lopez, Paolo Rivera, and Marco Checchetto. It is meant to serve as a direct successor to Avenging Spider-Man and a spiritual successor to Marvel Team-Up, whose name it plays on. It is also meant to act as an expansion of the Superior Spider-Man brand by Marvel.^[1]

Format

Like Marvel Team-Up and Avenging Spider-Man before it, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up features a team-up format where Spider-Man is partnered with a different character each issue. It will continue plot threads started in Avenging Spider-Man and run in tandem with Dan Slott's main Superior Spider-Man title.^[1]

Publication history

Superior Spider-Man Team-Up was announced in April 2013 as a part of Marvel's Superior brand expansion. Christopher Yost, writer of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, said, "Well, in my heart when I say "Team-Up" for "Superior Spider-Man," I probably mean "Versus." In the latest "Avenging" issues, we've seen that he has a fairly contentious relationship with most of the heroes he's encountered. And with "Superior Spider-Man Team Up," that just gets bigger. I think in issue #1, he teams up with pretty much the entire Marvel Universe".

Axel Alonso, Marvel's Editor-In-Chief, added "All I can say is, they had me at the title. I grew up loving "Marvel Team-Up." Bought every issue I could get my hands on. Every month Spider-Man would team up with someone new. There was even an issue where Iceman teamed up with the Human Torch. I was like, "What the—!?"...So it didn't take much for me to sign off on the series".^[1]

Issues

Issue	Guest character(s)	Villain(s) or Threat	Writer	Artist	Release date	Notes
1	Avengers	Carrion	Chris Yost	David Lopez	July 24, 2013	On the final page it is revealed that the Jackal and Carrion are working together.
2	Scarlet Spider	Jackal		Pat Olliffe	August 14, 2013	Crossover with Scarlet Spider.
3	Mighty Avengers	Builders, Fulmina	Robert Rodi	Mike del Mundo	September 25, 2013	Tie-in with Infinity event.
4					October 9, 2013
5	Superior Six, Sun Girl	Wrecking Crew	Chris Yost	Marco Checchetto	October 23, 2013
6		Wrecking Crew, Masters of Evil			November 20, 2013
7	Sun Girl, Lightmaster	Superior Six			December 4, 2013
8	Namor	Robots of Hatut Zeraze		Will Sliney	December 18, 2013
9	Punisher, Daredevil	Spider-Minions, Green Goblin	Kevin Shinick	Marco Checchetto	January 22, 2014	Prelude to the Goblin Nation storyline in Superior Spider-Man
10					February 19, 2014
11	Spider-Man 2099	Green Goblin		Marco Checchetto & Ron Frenz	March 26, 2014	Tie-in with the Goblin Nation storyline in Superior Spider-Man
12	Doctor Octopus				April 23, 2014

Collected editions

Title	Material collected	Publication date	ISBN
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Vol. 1 - Versus	Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1–4, Scarlet Spider (vol. 2) #20	March 11, 2014	978-0785187912
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Vol. 2 - Superior Six	Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5–12	July 8, 2014	978-0785189794
Superior Spider-Man Companion	Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1-12 and Scarlet Spider (vol. 2) #20, Avenging Spider-Man #15.1, 16-22, Daredevil (vol. 3) #22, Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man	January 3, 2019	978-1302915438

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