Monday, February 10, 2014

Spider-Man and Doc Savage



One the cooler stories from Marvel Two-In-One was when The Thing teamed with Doc Savage.  I knew Marvel had publishing rights to the character at the time, but it was still unexpected to see the Man of Bronze cross into the mainstream Marvel universe.  I had hoped that there would be a similar appearance with Spider-Man in Marvel Team-Up, but it never came to be.
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11 comments:

  1. GrahamFebruary 10, 2014 at 6:38 AM

    They did "team up", albeit 40 years apart, in one of the Giant-Size Spideys around the time of the Doc Savage movie in the mid 70's. Would have been nice for them to be in the same time frame though.

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  2. RossFebruary 10, 2014 at 6:44 AM

    Ah, now that you mention it, I seem to remember that - I'll have to track that issue down!

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2014 at 9:11 AM

    That wasn't a bad ish. I believe it might have been featured in Bronze Age Babies or Diversions of the Groovy Kind. I saw it somewhere, anyway.

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  4. John SmallFebruary 10, 2014 at 9:53 AM

    I have both of the team-up Marvel issues and have always thought that the Spider-Man story was the better of the two.

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  5. Bob BuetheFebruary 10, 2014 at 10:36 AM

    Ross, I enjoy all of your covers, but there's something extra special about the ones in which one of the stars originated in a medium other than comic books (pulps, movies, comic strips, television, etc.). The past few days have been really cool.

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  6. RossFebruary 10, 2014 at 11:09 AM

    Thanks, I love superheroes but have tried to branch out into other genres a bit more... I hope to keep featuring characters from time to time that nobody would expect to show up.

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  7. pblfsdaFebruary 10, 2014 at 6:06 PM

    If you want to read that Spider-man/Doc Savage story from the 70's [GIANT-SIZE SPIDER-MAN #3(01/75)], you'll have to get the original. Because of licensing concerns both the "Masterworks" and "Essentials" reprint programs have already by-passed that issue.

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  8. RossFebruary 10, 2014 at 6:15 PM

    I have a feeling it's buried in one of my long boxes in the basement...

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 10, 2014 at 7:21 PM

    Spidey, Doc Savage, and a Tolkein reference? It's a geek explosion, and I love it!

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  10. AnonymousApril 14, 2014 at 4:52 PM

    "It's a geek explosion, and I love it!"

    As do I. This would make a great live-action movie adaptation (with Elijah Maguire--or is Toby Wood?--as "Spidey").

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  11. Britt ReidSeptember 9, 2016 at 9:23 AM

    The never-reprinted Doc Savage/Spider-Man semi-team-up is here...
    http://heroheroinehistory.blogspot.com/2011/08/reading-room-doc-savage-yesterday.html

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