Marvel Team-Up #93
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeMarvel Team-Up #93 is the first appearance of Dansen Macabre, a mystical dancer-villain whose hypnotic and lethal powers would make her a mainstay of the Night Shift — the horror-flavored West Coast criminal team that tangled with the West Coast Avengers throughout the late 1980s and beyond. The issue also marks the point at which the Tatterdemalion character, who had appeared anonymously in Werewolf by Night #9 (1973), finally receives his codename and fully realized identity as a destitute, wealth-destroying vigilante — effectively his functional debut. Set in Los Angeles and weaving together threads from concurrent Spider-Woman and Werewolf by Night storylines, the story exemplifies Marvel's Bronze Age cross-title continuity at its most ambitious, knitting four separate series into a single coherent narrative. The issue also quietly advances Jack Russell's characterization by confirming — within the story itself — that he can now transform into the Werewolf at will, a development that had been seeded in other books.
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The issue was written by Steven Grant, who had recently taken over the Marvel Team-Up writing duties from Chris Claremont, and penciled by a split art team: Tom Sutton handled pages 1–6 and Carmine Infantino pages 7–17, with Jim Mooney on inks throughout. The cover was produced by Don Perlin and Al Milgrom. Editorial oversight came from Denny O'Neil as editor, Mark Gruenwald as assistant editor, and Jim Shooter as editor-in-chief — a team that typified Marvel's tight editorial hierarchy of the era. The issue was published in May 1980, with a cover price of 40 cents, and appeared in newsstand, direct, and British (12p) variants.
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- First appearance of Dansen Macabre, a mystic dancer and devotee of the Cult of Kali whose hypnotic and lethal dancing powers later made her a co-leader of the Night Shift.
- The character previously known only as an unnamed vagrant in Werewolf by Night #9 (1973) is given the name Tatterdemalion here and receives his definitive characterization: a former wealthy man turned destitute, driven to destroy money and property rather than steal it, now equipped with a corrosive touch and a signature weighted scarf.
- Written by Steven Grant (his early run on the title after succeeding Chris Claremont), penciled by Tom Sutton (pages 1–6) and Carmine Infantino (pages 7–17), inked by Jim Mooney, with a cover by Don Perlin and Al Milgrom.
- Edited by Denny O'Neil, with Mark Gruenwald as assistant editor and Jim Shooter as editor-in-chief.
- The story is Part 1 of a 2-part arc ('Rags to Riches!') continued in Marvel Team-Up #94, and serves as a direct sequel to events in Spider-Woman #19 and #20, making it one of the more densely cross-referenced single issues in the Bronze Age Marvel line.
- Jack Russell's ability to transform into the Werewolf at will — regardless of the moon phase — is explicitly confirmed within the story as a closely guarded secret, marking a key evolution of the character.
- Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) appears only in recap flashback, while the Shroud (Maximillian Coleridge) plays a supporting role and uses his Darkforce darkness powers to give the heroes cover to fight Tatterdemalion without exposing their secret identities.
- The issue has been reprinted in Essential Marvel Team-Up Vol. 4 (2013, black and white), Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection Vol. 3 (2018), and internationally in French (Une Aventure de l'Araignée #16, 1982) and Spanish (Spiderman, Planeta DeAgostini, #21, October 1993).
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Reprinted in Une Aventure de l'Araignée #16 (1982), Spiderman #21 (1983), Essential Marvel Team-Up #4 (2013), Werewolf by Night: The Complete Collection #3 (2018), Die Spinne Comic - Taschenbuch #13
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