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Super-Villain Team-Up #1 (Aug. 1975):
“Slayers from the Sea!”
by Tony Isabella, George Tuska, Bill Everett, Fred Kida

Super-Villain Team-Up #1

Title: “Slayers from the Sea!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Aug. 1975

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Tony Isabella
Art by: George Tuska, Bill Everett, Fred Kida


17 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Sub-Mariner The Sub-Mariner (Namor) hero
CBR Scale: S Atlantean Greco-Roman
classical religion
Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  Marvel 1,864
Doctor Doom Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) villain scientist
CBR Scale: S Gypsy/Roma; magic/mysticism
Fearsome Four; The Cabal Marvel 1,176
Atlanteans Atlanteans supporting character group
CBR Scale: S Atlantean Greco-Roman
classical religion
[hidden race] Marvel DC 165
Tiger Shark Tiger Shark (Todd Arliss) villain
  Deep Six; Hood's Army...  Marvel 112
Attuma Attuma villain
CBR Scale: S Atlantean Greco-Roman
classical religion
Deep Six (leader) Marvel 110
Doctor Dorcas Doctor Dorcas (Lemuel Dorcas) villain scientist
  [empowered Tiger Shark] Marvel 23
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
The Hulk The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Catholic (lapsed)
Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Marvel 4,551
Thor Thor (Donald Blake)
(cameo)
hero deity
CBR Scale: D Norse/Teutonic deity
Asgardian; Cosmic Avengers...  Marvel 4,362
Daredevil Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: M Catholic
Marvel Knights; Weapon X (Exiles) Marvel 1,801
The Thing The Thing (Ben Grimm)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  Marvel 5,017
Human Torch Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Marvel 4,393
Mr. Fantastic Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
(cameo)
hero scientist
CBR Scale: SCBR Scale: I humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist
Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  Marvel 4,661
Quicksilver Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)
(cameo)
villain hero
CBR Scale: I Gypsy/Roma; ethnic half Jewish; sometimes mutant supremacist
Brotherhood of Mutants; The Avengers...  Marvel 944
Silver Surfer Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: S Zenn-La religion
Heralds of Galactus; Secret Defenders...  Marvel 826
Tamara Rahn Tamara Rahn
(cameo)
hero
CBR Scale: I alien
Banari Marvel 10
Dr. Hydro (Herman Frayne)
(cameo)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: M fundamentalist
Environmentalist
[believed mankind must return to sea to survive] Marvel 3

This issue is divided into two chapters, or two parts, both written by Tony Isabella but each with different artistic teams. These two parts have been combined here. The first part is titled "Chapter One: An Alliance Asunder?" The artists for this were George Tuska, Bill Everett, and Fred Kida. The second part is "Part Two: Frenzy On a Floating Fortress." The artists for the second chapter were George Evans and Frank Springer.