Marvel Team-Up #4
1997
- Series
- Marvel Team-Up
- Issue
- 4
- Cover date
- Dec 1, 1997
- Story title
- Suspended Sentence
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Marvel Team-Up #4 was published in 1972 as part of a series designed to showcase pairings between Spider-Man and various other characters in the Marvel Universe. In this installment, writer Gerry Conway and artist Ross Andru brought Spider-Man together with the X-Men, a team that had ceased new monthly publication in 1970 due to flagging sales and was relegated to reprint status at the time. This issue served as a pivotal moment for the X-Men, as it featured the team actively seeking out Professor X, helping to maintain their presence in the public consciousness before their eventual highly successful relaunch in 1975.
The cover art, illustrated by Gil Kane and John Romita, captures the dynamic tension expected of a Spider-Man collaboration. By pairing the publisher's most popular character with the struggling X-Men, Marvel editors aimed to cross-pollinate fanbases and keep the mutant characters viable. While the series was generally received as a lighthearted platform for team-ups, this specific issue remains historically significant among collectors for its role in keeping the X-Men brand alive during a period of professional uncertainty for the mutants.
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