The superhero team up is truly one of the greatest things that can happen in a comic book. Two fierce warriors from different worlds coming together to battle an evil that they couldnt possibly topple alone is always a good idea, and as long as there has been stories of heroes, there have been stories of heroes coming together. The best team up stories were infused with tension, and often even resulted in some of the most badass fights imaginable between the heroes themselves. But team-up stories havent always worked out so well in fact some of the worst comic book stories imaginable feature some of the crappiest team-ups of all time. And Im not talking about an annoying, lets try to forget it, 90s X-Men crappy Im talking about a lets abort the idea that this story even existed level of bad. Stories kind of like...
12. Spiderman Teams Up With...The Cast Of Saturday Night Live?
Spider-Man is without a doubt Marvels biggest commodity, and arguably the most popular comic book character in the world. Hes the golden boy; the franchise; the man at the top of the food chain. But sometimes its horrible being at the top. Sometimes being at the top means you have to do some humiliating and degrading work in order to sell some books. Maybe not Mexican donkey show degrading, but definitely the sort of stuff thatll kill your cred a little bit. Unfortunately for Spidey, he shows up on this list a lot because of this. In 1977s Marvel Team-Up #74, Peter Parker is finally able to score tickets to a taping of Saturday Night Live. Fully expecting to exploit the tickets for some sweet sweet loving from Mary Jane who, as it turns out, is a Gilda Radner fanatic the issue actually starts off looking pretty good for everyones favorite wall crawler. That is until the Silver Samurai and his goons show up looking for a ring that John Belushi somehow stumbled upon. Did I mention the episodes host was Stan Lee, with musical guest Rick Jones? Yeah, its going to be one of those kinds of nights for Spidey. The issue packed full of epic levels of chicanery, including Bill Murray taking out the Samurais henchmen using a giant rubber version of Mjolnir, Garrett Morris whos black by the way scaring some goons unconscious when he shows up dressed up like Thor, and John Belushi actually going toe-to-toe with the Silver Samurai in a fight that was initially started when the Samurai took offense to Belushis choice of costume. Spidey basically spends the issue saving the cast of the inaugural season of SNL every time they think playing dress-up is actually a sound plan for staving off armed mercenaries. Seriously, Dan Akyroyd said as much. Surely this tripe was written by some horrid network executive who sought to use ol Webby as a free commercial, you must be thinking? They would certainly deserve the most royal of canings if that were the case except it is not and this story was actually written by the legendary comic book scribe Chris Claremont. Thats right, the guy who wrote the goddamn Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past and practically made the modern X-Men also gave us the Silver Samurais darkest hour. Surprisingly though, there are worse team-ups, like.....