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* SalemIsWitchCountry: A strange StoryArc involves Spider-Man, the Scarlet Witch, the Vision, [[ChromeDomePSI Moondragon]], and Doctor Doom time-traveling to Salem to fight a warlock who was involved in the Salem Witch Trials. Unfortunately, the heroes defeat the Warlock, but could not stop innocent people from being hanged.
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* MarsWantsChocolate: In a non-canonical, Aunt May feeds Galactus some Grosstest Twinkles, which he finds extremely fulfilling. She rescues Earth (and the rest of the universe) by finding him a cosmic baker who makes planet-sized Twinkles.
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* BadassInDistress: One issue begins with henchmen of the Living Monolith abducting Havok from Muir Island. He spends the next two issues captive as a power source.


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* CrossThrough: After Havok is abducted, Polaris puts in a call to the X-Men, who aren't in. Worried, she calls Beast at Avengers Mansion, and he goes to investigate, only to not be heard from again for the rest of the story, because over in ''X-Men'' he finds the team and they get abducted by Magneto.


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* AGodAmI: The Living Monolith proclaims himself the living personification of several Ancient Egyptian gods. Given the boost in power makes him able to go toe-to-toe with Thor, he can put his money where his mouth is.


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** Living Monolith's fight with Thor ends with him disappearing from too much power.

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Spidey has a hard time placing Misty Knight because he saves so many people.



* NoBodyLeftBehind: Issue #62 ends with the Super-Skrull being caught in a massive explosion which seemingly disintegrates him. He got better.

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Issue #62 ends with the Super-Skrull being caught in a massive explosion which seemingly disintegrates him. He got better.
** Steel Serpent suffers a case of power overload and explodes, leaving behind only a smouldering crater. He also got
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* SmellyFeetGag: In issue #64, Colleen Wing insists Spider-Man takes his boots off in her house. He refuses on the ground that his feet smell awful, but finds a workaround of sticking to the ceiling.

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* ComicBookTime: Karma's introductory story is quite heavily tied into the Vietnam War. Fine when it came out in 1980, not so much forty years on.
* CoversAlwaysSpoil: The title of issue #100's main story manages to give away one of the main reveals, namely the villain is a "she".

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* ComicBookTime: Karma's introductory story is quite heavily tied into the Vietnam War. UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Fine when it came out in 1980, not so much forty years on.
* CoversAlwaysSpoil: The title of issue #100's main story manages to give away one of the main reveals, namely the villain is a "she".
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: One issue has Spidey apparently attacked by the Fantastic Four. Groggy, he goes to seek out the Human Torch to attack him, only for the Torch to point out the obvious fact it clearly wasn't them. Just someone who happens to have all their powers, at which point he realises who's responsible - Kl'rt, the Super-Skrull.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Issues #63 and 64 follow up from plot threads in ''Iron Fist'', which had recently been cancelled (with ''Iron Fist'' and Team-Up's current writer being Chris Claremont).

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: One issue has Spidey apparently attacked by the Fantastic Four.ComicBook/FantasticFour. Groggy, he goes to seek out the Human Torch to attack him, only for the Torch to point out the obvious fact it clearly wasn't them. Just someone who happens to have all their powers, at which point he realises who's responsible - Kl'rt, the Super-Skrull.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Issues #63 and 64 follow up from plot threads in ''Iron Fist'', ''ComicBook/IronFist'', which had recently been cancelled (with ''Iron Fist'' and Team-Up's current ''Team-Up'''s then-current writer being Chris Claremont).Creator/ChrisClaremont).



** The very first issue had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].

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** The very first issue had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont Chris Claremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].



* SamusIsAGirl: Issue #100 has Spidey possessed by a mysterious person known as Karma. It's only after he's found her Spidey discovers Karma is a teenaged girl.

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* SamusIsAGirl: Issue #100 has Spidey possessed by a mysterious person known as Karma. It's only after he's found her that Spidey discovers Karma is a teenaged girl.



* TeamUpSeries: Spider-Man and someone else, almost every time. Of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the Hulk usually got top billing.

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* SpoilerCover: The title of issue #100's main story manages to give away one of the main reveals, namely the villain is a "she".
* TeamUpSeries: Spider-Man and someone else, almost every time. Of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch Fantastic Four's Human Torch or the Hulk usually got top billing.

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The series featured ComicBook/SpiderMan teaming up with other heroes.

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The series featured ComicBook/SpiderMan teaming up with other heroes.
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* BadFuture: Issue #45, appropriately titled "Future Shock", has Spidey stumble into the future of ''ComicBook/{{Killraven}}''. He's horrified at the thought of this being the future in store for everyone, but the time machine wipes his memories of it when he gets back to the modern day.


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* ComicBookTime: Karma's introductory story is quite heavily tied into the Vietnam War. Fine when it came out in 1980, not so much forty years on.
* CoversAlwaysSpoil: The title of issue #100's main story manages to give away one of the main reveals, namely the villain is a "she".


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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: One issue has Spidey apparently attacked by the Fantastic Four. Groggy, he goes to seek out the Human Torch to attack him, only for the Torch to point out the obvious fact it clearly wasn't them. Just someone who happens to have all their powers, at which point he realises who's responsible - Kl'rt, the Super-Skrull.
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Issues #63 and 64 follow up from plot threads in ''Iron Fist'', which had recently been cancelled (with ''Iron Fist'' and Team-Up's current writer being Chris Claremont).
* NarratingTheObvious: Happens whenever Chris Claremont is writing. Characters ''will'' outline their every action as they're doing it, no matter how obvious it is.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Issue #62 ends with the Super-Skrull being caught in a massive explosion which seemingly disintegrates him. He got better.
* PeoplePuppets: Both Karma and her brother have this power, able to perfectly control the minds of anyone in reach. Xuan hates using it. Her brother... not so much. Tran's also much more powerful than his sister, able to control all four of the Fantastic Four at once without any effort.
* PoliceAreUseless: If they're not pointing their guns at Spidey, they're still not much help. But then, what exactly are the NYPD's finest meant to do against an alien super-soldier?


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* SamusIsAGirl: Issue #100 has Spidey possessed by a mysterious person known as Karma. It's only after he's found her Spidey discovers Karma is a teenaged girl.


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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: The first thing Tran did on his mutant powers awakening? Make a nearby soldier smash his own head against a post.
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* AsHimself: An issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' has Spider-Man attend the broadcast of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and battling Silver Samurai alongside the cast. The SNL episode was hosted by Creator/StanLee who appears as well.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted in an issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' in which Spider-Man time-travels to Salem and tries to save the victims of the Witch Trials. He fails but the witches were not burned (he finds them hanged, which is historically accurate).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Many issues of Creator/MarvelComics' ''Marvel Team-Up'' comics line cashed in on these kinds of arguments. Want to know if the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] or [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is stronger? There's an issue where they fight each other.
* CelebrityParadox: ''Marvel Team-Up'' #74, which has Spider-Man teaming up with the cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', has Creator/StanLee (the co-creator of Spider-Man) hosting ''SNL''.

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* AsHimself: An issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' Issue #74 has Spider-Man attend the broadcast of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and battling Silver Samurai alongside the cast. The SNL episode was hosted by Creator/StanLee who appears as well.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted in an one issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' in which Spider-Man time-travels to Salem and tries to save the victims of the Witch Trials. He fails but the witches were not burned (he finds them hanged, which is historically accurate).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Many issues of Creator/MarvelComics' ''Marvel Team-Up'' comics line cashed in on these kinds of arguments. Want to know if the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] or [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is stronger? There's an issue where they fight each other.
* CelebrityParadox: ''Marvel Team-Up'' Issue #74, which has Spider-Man teaming up with the cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', ''Saturday Night Live'', has Creator/StanLee (the co-creator of Spider-Man) Stan Lee hosting ''SNL''.''SNL''.
* CreatorCameo Stan Lee, Spider-Man's co-creator, makes an appearance as himself in issue #74, hosting an episode of ''Saturday Night Live''.



** The very first issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].

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** The very first issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].



* SpecialAesopVictim: One ''Marvel Team-Up'' arc introduced fledgling hero Freedom Ring, who was brutally killed off at the end of the arc for no other purpose than to drive home a lesson about what happens when someone with very little training fails to take being a superhero seriously.
* TeamUpSeries: Spider-Man and someone else, almost every time: of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] usually got top billing.

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* SpecialAesopVictim: One ''Marvel Team-Up'' arc introduced fledgling hero Freedom Ring, who was brutally killed off at the end of the arc for no other purpose than to drive home a lesson about what happens when someone with very little training fails to take being a superhero seriously.
* TeamUpSeries: Spider-Man and someone else, almost every time: of time. Of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] Hulk usually got top billing.

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* RetroactiveLegacy: Similarly, the very first issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].

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* RetroactiveLegacy: Similarly, the RetroactiveLegacy:
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very first issue of ''Marvel Team-Up'' had a scene where Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].Knight]].
** Issue #100 revealed that as a young man, [[ComicBook/BlackPanther T'Challa]] had been close friends with [[ComicBook/XMen Ororo Munroe]], and that they both harbored [[UnresolvedSexualTension lingering romantic feelings for one another]]. Decades later, this would be used as the basis for their marriage.
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* AsHimself: An issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' has Spider-Man attend the broadcast of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and battling Silver Samurai alongside the cast. The SNL episode was hosted by Creator/StanLee who appears as well.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted in an issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' in which Spider-Man time-travels to Salem and tries to save the victims of the Witch Trials. He fails but the witches were not burned (he finds them hanged, which is historically accurate).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Many issues of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' comics line cashed in on these kinds of arguments. Want to know if the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] or [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is stronger? There's an issue where they fight each other.
* CelebrityParadox: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #74, which has Spider-Man teaming up with the cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', has Creator/StanLee (the co-creator of Spider-Man) hosting ''SNL''.
* RetroactiveLegacy: Similarly, the very first issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' had a scene where ComicBook/SpiderMan saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].
* SpecialAesopVictim: One ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' arc introduced fledgling hero Freedom Ring, who was brutally killed off at the end of the arc for no other purpose than to drive home a lesson about what happens when someone with very little training fails to take being a superhero seriously.
* TeamUpSeries: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'': ComicBook/SpiderMan and someone else, almost every time: of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] usually got top billing.

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* AsHimself: An issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' has Spider-Man attend the broadcast of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and battling Silver Samurai alongside the cast. The SNL episode was hosted by Creator/StanLee who appears as well.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted in an issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' in which Spider-Man time-travels to Salem and tries to save the victims of the Witch Trials. He fails but the witches were not burned (he finds them hanged, which is historically accurate).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Many issues of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' comics line cashed in on these kinds of arguments. Want to know if the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] or [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is stronger? There's an issue where they fight each other.
* CelebrityParadox: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' #74, which has Spider-Man teaming up with the cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', has Creator/StanLee (the co-creator of Spider-Man) hosting ''SNL''.
* RetroactiveLegacy: Similarly, the very first issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' had a scene where ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].
* SpecialAesopVictim: One ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' ''Marvel Team-Up'' arc introduced fledgling hero Freedom Ring, who was brutally killed off at the end of the arc for no other purpose than to drive home a lesson about what happens when someone with very little training fails to take being a superhero seriously.
* TeamUpSeries: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'': ComicBook/SpiderMan Spider-Man and someone else, almost every time: of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] usually got top billing.
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''Marvel Team-Up'' is a 1972 series by Creator/MarvelComics.

The series featured ComicBook/SpiderMan teaming up with other heroes.

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!!''Marvel Team-Up'' provides examples of:

* AsHimself: An issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' has Spider-Man attend the broadcast of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and battling Silver Samurai alongside the cast. The SNL episode was hosted by Creator/StanLee who appears as well.
* BurnTheWitch: Averted in an issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' in which Spider-Man time-travels to Salem and tries to save the victims of the Witch Trials. He fails but the witches were not burned (he finds them hanged, which is historically accurate).
* CavemenVsAstronautsDebate: Many issues of Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' comics line cashed in on these kinds of arguments. Want to know if the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] or [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] is stronger? There's an issue where they fight each other.
* CelebrityParadox: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #74, which has Spider-Man teaming up with the cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', has Creator/StanLee (the co-creator of Spider-Man) hosting ''SNL''.
* RetroactiveLegacy: Similarly, the very first issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' had a scene where ComicBook/SpiderMan saved a young woman from being mugged on Christmas Eve. A much later issue by Creator/ChrisClaremont established that the woman was actually [[ComicBook/DaughtersOfTheDragon Misty Knight]].
* SpecialAesopVictim: One ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' arc introduced fledgling hero Freedom Ring, who was brutally killed off at the end of the arc for no other purpose than to drive home a lesson about what happens when someone with very little training fails to take being a superhero seriously.
* TeamUpSeries: ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'': ComicBook/SpiderMan and someone else, almost every time: of the 157 issues from Volume 1, only 11 ''didn't'' feature the wall-crawler as one of the team-ees. Of those 11, the ComicBook/HumanTorch or the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] usually got top billing.

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