OR: "Wheaties--The Breakfast Of Gods"
Whatever else you may have to say about Marvel Team-Up #28, there's something that we're all probably in agreement on when we glance at its cover:
Artist Gil Kane has an interesting perspective on the size of a toddler's head.
It's also likely the consensus that there aren't many readers who would hold up this copy of MTU as an example of inspired and compelling plotting. It's an assessment which even Marvel's letters page "armadillo" coughed up to when responding to letter contributor (and future Marvel staffer) Ralph Macchio's description of the story as, among other things, "far-fetched":
We'll be honest with you, Ralph: the mail response is in and "The City Stealers" seems to be one of the least popular* stories we've done in TEAM-UP, with your letter and Doug Stewart's being representative of the bulk of opinions received. And it wasn't Gerry [Conway]'s scripting or Jim [Mooney]'s artwork ... that garnered this response--rather, it was the concept of having Manhattan Island towed to sea, which was felt to be a mite too much for proper suspension of disbelief.
*Talk about putting the best possible face on unfavorable feedback; the story wasn't one of the "least liked," but one of the "least popular."
"The City Stealers!" is the last issue of 1974 for MTU--and while the Manhattan Island scene is indeed a bit hard to swallow, you may find there are other elements in the story which keep the book from ending the year on a high note.
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