Happy New Year everyone!
Next month will see the release of the next Spider-Man volume - Essential Marvel Team-Up volume 4, containing issues #76-#78, #80-#98 & Annuals #2-#3. I'll be reviewing the volume in due course and also adding my thoughts on issue #79, which has been omitted due to rights issues.
In the meantime, this post is response to another enquiry about a minor aspect of the Essentials, namely which volumes from other series include issues from the various Spider-Man titles. I've already covered the issues not yet reached by their own volumes, but for the sake of completism here is a full list of all the volumes that contain any issues from the various Spider-Man series. The individual issues are linked to the posts containing the relevant reviews and the relevant volume links are to those reviews. As ever the co-stars of Marvel Team-Up issues are identified:
Essential Classic X-Men volume 3
Essential Werewolf by Night volume 1
Essential Punisher volume 1
Essential Marvel Horror volume 2
Essential Marvel Horror volume 1
Essential Defenders volume 2
Essential Killraven volume 1
Essential Marvel Two-in-One volume 1
Essential Warlock volume 1
Essential Nova volume 1
As previously discussed, this was the first crossover between Amazing and another series, bringing together Marvel's biggest star and their newest (and the Nova issue also appears in Essential Spider-Man volume 8). Looking back it's astounding to think that Nova was seriously expected to be the next Spider-Man. But then predicting The Next Big Thing has never been an easy science.
Essential Iron Fist volume 1
Essential Man-Thing volume 2
Essential Moon Knight volume 1
(Contrary to some early reports and many online listings, Marvel Team-Up Annual #4 is not included.)
Similar to the Punisher, Moon Knight began life as a one-off villain in another series (in this case Werewolf by Night) but proved so popular he kept returning and eventually graduated to a series of his own. His encounter with Spider-Man came midway through this journey.
Essential Dazzler volume 1
Dazzler was being steadily built up to be one of the Next Big Things from Marvel as part of a wider tie-in with a record company, but for various reasons the tie-ins were cancelled before they could happen and her actual series didn't materialise until 1981 when the disco fad was already fading. But before then one of her earliest appearances was in Amazing Spider-Man, an issue which ends rather suggestively between Spidey and Dazzler but unfortunately this was never followed up on.
Essential Spider-Woman volume 2
Essential Defenders volume 5
Essential Defenders volume 6
Essential Ghost Rider volume 4
Notably Ghost Rider himself doesn't actually appear in this issue, but instead we get Zarathos, the spirit previously bonded to him. This issue was also a crossover with Secret Wars II.
And so that's all the volumes I'm aware of. Unsurprisingly the vast majority of volumes reprint issues from Marvel Team-Up due to the policy of collecting some significant appearances of characters alongside their own series. However Essential Punisher volume 1 balances out the numbers somewhat.
Next month will see the release of the next Spider-Man volume - Essential Marvel Team-Up volume 4, containing issues #76-#78, #80-#98 & Annuals #2-#3. I'll be reviewing the volume in due course and also adding my thoughts on issue #79, which has been omitted due to rights issues.
In the meantime, this post is response to another enquiry about a minor aspect of the Essentials, namely which volumes from other series include issues from the various Spider-Man titles. I've already covered the issues not yet reached by their own volumes, but for the sake of completism here is a full list of all the volumes that contain any issues from the various Spider-Man series. The individual issues are linked to the posts containing the relevant reviews and the relevant volume links are to those reviews. As ever the co-stars of Marvel Team-Up issues are identified:
Essential Classic X-Men volume 3
- Amazing Spider-Man #92
- Marvel Team-Up #4 featuring Spider-Man and the X-Men
Essential Werewolf by Night volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #12 featuring Spider-Man and the Werewolf
Essential Punisher volume 1
- Amazing Spider-Man #129
- Amazing Spider-Man #134
- Amazing Spider-Man #135
- Giant-Size Spider-Man #4
- Amazing Spider-Man #161
- Amazing Spider-Man #162
- Amazing Spider-Man #174
- Amazing Spider-Man #175
- Amazing Spider-Man #201
- Amazing Spider-Man #202
- Spectacular Spider-Man #81
- Spectacular Spider-Man #82
- Spectacular Spider-Man #83
Essential Marvel Horror volume 2
- Marvel Team-Up #24 featuring Spider-Man and Brother Voodoo
Essential Marvel Horror volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #32 featuring the Human Torch & the Son of Satan
- Marvel Team-Up #80 featuring Spider-Man and Dr. Strange and Clea
- Marvel Team-Up #81 featuring Spider-Man and Satana
Essential Defenders volume 2
- Marvel Team-Up #33 featuring Spider-Man and Nighthawk
- Marvel Team-Up #34 featuring Spider-Man and Valkyrie
- Marvel Team-Up #35 featuring the Human Torch and Dr. Strange
Essential Killraven volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #45 featuring Spider-Man and Killraven
Essential Marvel Two-in-One volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #47 featuring Spider-Man and the Thing
Essential Warlock volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #55 featuring Spider-Man and Warlock
Essential Nova volume 1
As previously discussed, this was the first crossover between Amazing and another series, bringing together Marvel's biggest star and their newest (and the Nova issue also appears in Essential Spider-Man volume 8). Looking back it's astounding to think that Nova was seriously expected to be the next Spider-Man. But then predicting The Next Big Thing has never been an easy science.
Essential Iron Fist volume 1
- Marvel Team-Up #63 featuring Spider-Man and Iron Fist
- Marvel Team-Up #64 featuring Spider-Man and the Daughters of the Dragon
Essential Man-Thing volume 2
- Marvel Team-Up #68 featuring Spider-Man and the Man-Thing
Essential Moon Knight volume 1
(Contrary to some early reports and many online listings, Marvel Team-Up Annual #4 is not included.)
Similar to the Punisher, Moon Knight began life as a one-off villain in another series (in this case Werewolf by Night) but proved so popular he kept returning and eventually graduated to a series of his own. His encounter with Spider-Man came midway through this journey.
Essential Dazzler volume 1
Dazzler was being steadily built up to be one of the Next Big Things from Marvel as part of a wider tie-in with a record company, but for various reasons the tie-ins were cancelled before they could happen and her actual series didn't materialise until 1981 when the disco fad was already fading. But before then one of her earliest appearances was in Amazing Spider-Man, an issue which ends rather suggestively between Spidey and Dazzler but unfortunately this was never followed up on.
Essential Spider-Woman volume 2
- Marvel Team-Up #97 featuring Hulk and Spider-Woman
Essential Defenders volume 5
- Marvel Team-Up #101 featuring Spider-Man and Nighthawk
- Marvel Team-Up #111 featuring Spider-Man and Devil-Slayer
- Marvel Team-Up #116 featuring Spider-Man and Valkyrie
Essential Defenders volume 6
- Marvel Team-Up #119 featuring Spider-Man and Gargoyle
Essential Ghost Rider volume 4
Notably Ghost Rider himself doesn't actually appear in this issue, but instead we get Zarathos, the spirit previously bonded to him. This issue was also a crossover with Secret Wars II.
And so that's all the volumes I'm aware of. Unsurprisingly the vast majority of volumes reprint issues from Marvel Team-Up due to the policy of collecting some significant appearances of characters alongside their own series. However Essential Punisher volume 1 balances out the numbers somewhat.
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