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Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #10
Black Widow: Marvel Team-Up
The world's greatest super-spy in her finest team-ups - alongside Spider-Man, the Thing, Daredevil and more! First, terror group the Sword of Judgment threatens the end of the world - unless Natasha Romanoff and Ben Grimm can stop them! Then, Spidey and the Widow form an arachnid double act to take on the Silver Samurai! But when they meet again, why does Natasha think she is a teacher named Nancy Rushman?! Maybe Nick Fury and Shang-Chi can help unravel the mystery of the Widow's double life! Plus, when a young man is wrongfully accused, Natasha must cross paths with old flame Daredevil. And it's all-out action when the Black Widow teams up with Silver Sable and Darkstar! COLLECTING: MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE (1974) 10; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) 57, 82-85, 98, 140-141; MATERIAL FROM MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS (1988) 53,70, 93
207 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2020
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Chris Claremont
3,279 books892 followersChris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
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December 5, 2024
This is a fun collection of Black Widow team-up stories from the 1970s and '80s, in which she's paired with The Thing for one adventure, Spider-Man for several, Daredevil for a couple, and appearances from Nick Fury, Shang-Chi, Silver Sable, and several others. Chris Claremont wrote the majority, but there's work from several others including Marv Wolfman, Roger McKenzie, Bill Mantlo, Fabian Nicieza, etc. (Wow, Claremont sure gave you a lot of words-per-page for your money back in the day!) The artists include Bob Brown, Sal Buscema, Will Meugniot, and several others. Lots and lots of different hair styles, too, I must say. It's all fun stuff, you can nit-pick if you like (like the cover of Team-Up issue #98 shows The Owl sitting in a chair shooting eight blasters at Peter and Natasha, and the caption asks, "Who Is He?", but you know who he is, 'cause there's a picture of him...) but what's the point of spoiling the fun with that? They should have included a table of contents, but they didn't. Almost all of these stories have the same three words on the top of the first page: Stan Lee Presents. If that makes you grin, you'll like this one. 'Nuff said, true believer. Excelsior!
September 26, 2020
This collection offers some stories ranging from the 70s to the late 80s and serve as a way to see how Widow was written pre-MCU boom. The main story sees Widow believing she’s a woman named Natalie Rushman. Spider-man teams with this Natalie woman (knowing she’s Black Widow) and the team up serves a story wherein the two slowly discover what’s happening. It’s an interesting approach with some subtle nuance to the reasoning. Several times Claremont has Spidey point out how skilled Widow is and it serves the purpose to highlight how good of a character Widow is. Other stories see Widow teaming with characters such as Silver Sable, Ghost Rider and Nick Fury. Overall it’s a surprisingly decent collection.
August 30, 2021
This is another anthology of Black Widow adventures, this time featuring her working with other Marvel superheroes:
Marvel Two-in-One #10 (The Thing and Black Widow)--Black Widow is in a car chase through Central Park and almost crashes in to Ben Grimm (aka The Thing) whose on a date with his blind girlfriend Alicia Masters. Ben knocks the car out of the way and tosses Alicia to safety, but he and Black Widow are captured by her pursuers. They take the two heroes to their evil lair in the middle of the Atlantic. The bad guys plan to drop the biggest nuclear bomb ever to the bottom of the ocean, causing a radioactive tidal wave that will wipe out the American east coast. The Widow and the Thing work together to thwart the plan. The story is a fairly standard action yarn. Black Widow and the Thing make an unlikely but fun team.
Marvel Team-up #57 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow--Spider-man thwarts a gang of thieves in the post-Christmas lull in crime. They are working for the Sliver Samurai, who has some bigger, unidentified scheme. Meanwhile, Black Widow has returned to New York at the summons of Nick Fury, only to find the safe house seemingly abandoned. As she goes in search of Fury, she sees the energy blasts from the Samurai's sword. She investigates and the team-up begins. It's a fun action story but it's just the start of some other arcs in other comics.
Marvel Team-up #82-85 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow (and Nick Fury and Shang Chi)--Spider-man discovers a red-headed woman about to be mugged in an alleyway. She sure looks like the Black Widow but she claims she's Nancy Rushman, a New York school teacher. She can't remember her address or what school she teaches at, so there's a mystery to solve. Unfortunately, they are attacked by a S.H.I.E.L.D. taskforce before they can get more clues. The story spins into a larger conspiracy...pretty typical for a story from the 1970s! It's another entertaining story that moves at a good pace.
Marvel Team-up #98 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow--They are back together, this time fighting gun runners in New York City. Nothing too special about this story, other than it seemed a little short.
Marvel Team-up #140-141 featuring Spider-man, Black Widow, and Daredevil--A New York City blackout leads to rioting. Spider-man is just short of preventing a pawn shop owner from being killed by the neighborhood gang. The gang points the finger at an innocent man who is being represented by Daredevil's regular identity, lawyer Matt Murdock. Matt needs help finding proof of innocence (other than his ability to listen to someone's heartbeat and detect if they are lying). Ex-girlfriend Black Widow steps up to help Matt. Spider-man wants to investigate because he feels guilty about not saving the pawn broker. So they work together, though a bigger conspiracy is at hand. Also, Spider-man is snatched mid-story for the Secret Wars crossover, when he got the black suit that turned out to be the symbiote Venom, a whole other story. He returns to this story, which comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Marvel Comics Presents #53--Black Widow and Silver Sable hunt the same villain in Paris, France, eventually fighting over him at the Eiffel Tower. The story is very short and fairly entertaining. It even manages to avoid the fight between the two females looking like some sexist cat fight. It's just a fun showdown between two evenly-matched fighters.
Marvel Comics Presents #70--Black Widow teams up with Soviet superhero Darkstar (A Russian mutant with Darkforce energy, whatever that is) and Starlight (another Russian hero who is under the mind-control of the Presence, an overpowered Russian who got his power from exposure to nuclear radiation). They manage to free Starlight from the mind-control so she can talk some sense into the Presence. The story is very short and feels like it serves some other ongoing narrative.
Marvel Comics Presents #93--Black Widow and Daredevil infiltrate a secret Hydra base and take it out. Another quick, fun story, especially when the Widow has to talk blind Daredevil through disarming the self-destruct bomb.
Mildly recommended--the stories vary in quality but most are fine. Nothing is a must-read; nothing made me sorry I read it.
Marvel Two-in-One #10 (The Thing and Black Widow)--Black Widow is in a car chase through Central Park and almost crashes in to Ben Grimm (aka The Thing) whose on a date with his blind girlfriend Alicia Masters. Ben knocks the car out of the way and tosses Alicia to safety, but he and Black Widow are captured by her pursuers. They take the two heroes to their evil lair in the middle of the Atlantic. The bad guys plan to drop the biggest nuclear bomb ever to the bottom of the ocean, causing a radioactive tidal wave that will wipe out the American east coast. The Widow and the Thing work together to thwart the plan. The story is a fairly standard action yarn. Black Widow and the Thing make an unlikely but fun team.
Marvel Team-up #57 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow--Spider-man thwarts a gang of thieves in the post-Christmas lull in crime. They are working for the Sliver Samurai, who has some bigger, unidentified scheme. Meanwhile, Black Widow has returned to New York at the summons of Nick Fury, only to find the safe house seemingly abandoned. As she goes in search of Fury, she sees the energy blasts from the Samurai's sword. She investigates and the team-up begins. It's a fun action story but it's just the start of some other arcs in other comics.
Marvel Team-up #82-85 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow (and Nick Fury and Shang Chi)--Spider-man discovers a red-headed woman about to be mugged in an alleyway. She sure looks like the Black Widow but she claims she's Nancy Rushman, a New York school teacher. She can't remember her address or what school she teaches at, so there's a mystery to solve. Unfortunately, they are attacked by a S.H.I.E.L.D. taskforce before they can get more clues. The story spins into a larger conspiracy...pretty typical for a story from the 1970s! It's another entertaining story that moves at a good pace.
Marvel Team-up #98 featuring Spider-man and Black Widow--They are back together, this time fighting gun runners in New York City. Nothing too special about this story, other than it seemed a little short.
Marvel Team-up #140-141 featuring Spider-man, Black Widow, and Daredevil--A New York City blackout leads to rioting. Spider-man is just short of preventing a pawn shop owner from being killed by the neighborhood gang. The gang points the finger at an innocent man who is being represented by Daredevil's regular identity, lawyer Matt Murdock. Matt needs help finding proof of innocence (other than his ability to listen to someone's heartbeat and detect if they are lying). Ex-girlfriend Black Widow steps up to help Matt. Spider-man wants to investigate because he feels guilty about not saving the pawn broker. So they work together, though a bigger conspiracy is at hand. Also, Spider-man is snatched mid-story for the Secret Wars crossover, when he got the black suit that turned out to be the symbiote Venom, a whole other story. He returns to this story, which comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Marvel Comics Presents #53--Black Widow and Silver Sable hunt the same villain in Paris, France, eventually fighting over him at the Eiffel Tower. The story is very short and fairly entertaining. It even manages to avoid the fight between the two females looking like some sexist cat fight. It's just a fun showdown between two evenly-matched fighters.
Marvel Comics Presents #70--Black Widow teams up with Soviet superhero Darkstar (A Russian mutant with Darkforce energy, whatever that is) and Starlight (another Russian hero who is under the mind-control of the Presence, an overpowered Russian who got his power from exposure to nuclear radiation). They manage to free Starlight from the mind-control so she can talk some sense into the Presence. The story is very short and feels like it serves some other ongoing narrative.
Marvel Comics Presents #93--Black Widow and Daredevil infiltrate a secret Hydra base and take it out. Another quick, fun story, especially when the Widow has to talk blind Daredevil through disarming the self-destruct bomb.
Mildly recommended--the stories vary in quality but most are fine. Nothing is a must-read; nothing made me sorry I read it.
June 29, 2021
I always like Marvel Team-Up stories. They’re fun, self-contained and have a nice dose of Spider-Man trying to pull himself together.
I thought the Bill Mantlo story was the most interesting. Mantlo was a public defender and he’s great at writing Daredevil being a lawyer. Unfortunately that story isn’t much of a Black Widow story, more of a Daredevil/Spider-Man.
I also like the Marvel Comics Presents story where Black Widow helps Daredevil diffuse a bomb, again this reads more of a Daredevil story.
So, these stories are fun 70s/80s comics, but if you want Black Widow stories about Black Widow, you might get annoyed at all the Spider-Man, Daredevil moments. But this is titled as team up book.
Also, the short MCP story with Black Widow and Darkstar was weird—and disturbing, what was the deal with that?
I thought the Bill Mantlo story was the most interesting. Mantlo was a public defender and he’s great at writing Daredevil being a lawyer. Unfortunately that story isn’t much of a Black Widow story, more of a Daredevil/Spider-Man.
I also like the Marvel Comics Presents story where Black Widow helps Daredevil diffuse a bomb, again this reads more of a Daredevil story.
So, these stories are fun 70s/80s comics, but if you want Black Widow stories about Black Widow, you might get annoyed at all the Spider-Man, Daredevil moments. But this is titled as team up book.
Also, the short MCP story with Black Widow and Darkstar was weird—and disturbing, what was the deal with that?
July 9, 2021
I quite enjoyed this, especially the first six issues which were written by Chris Claremont. This probably could've been included in the The Black Widow Strikes Omnibus since that collection was just shy of 900 pages and this one is roughly 200 pages. I mean... War of the Realms Omnibus was a monstrous 1576 pages! But I won't complain about it, after all, sometimes those omnis can get hard to handle. Anyways... I had a lot of fun with this book!
June 20, 2020
lots of great stories. the back half is not as good filler stuff all and all a great read for black widow nuts like myself
November 29, 2020
Decent team up TP. Some good stories and good artwork
March 1, 2021
DPL hoopla. Highly variable.
July 28, 2023
Uneven across the years. Too often lower spider-man power to make Black Widow seem like a full partner.
July 22, 2025
A great batch of stories. My favorite is the story with Viper and the last story with Daredevil and Dugan. They should've included Marvel Team-Up #74, but that issue doesn't contain Black Widow.
January 10, 2021
A fun collection by a variety of authors (although Chris Claremont wrote the majority of the selections) and artists that highlight many different interpretations of Natasha over the years. I’ve read the stories included before, most of them when they were originally published, but it’s usually a lot of fun to revisit these stories again from time to time. The best is probably the Spider-Man, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Shang-Chi (one of my all-time favorite Marvel characters) 4-parter Marvel Team-Up #82-85. Most of the stories feature the Black Widow and Spider-Man except the first, which features the Thing, and the last 3 short selections from the pages of Marvel Comics Presents, so it kind of feels like this should have been called Black Widow & Spider-Man Team-Ups. In any case, these are fun stories, just don’t expect masterpieces and you’ll likely enjoy the selections.
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