The New Avengers (comics)
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| The New Avengers | |
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 The New Avengers #1 Cover art by David Finch & Danny Miki |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Publication date | January 2005 – April 2010 |
| Main character(s) | Current Roster: Captain America (Rogers) Captain America (Bucky) Luke Cage Ms. Marvel Mockingbird Ronin Spider-Man Spider-Woman Wolverine Former Members: Doctor Strange Echo Iron Fist Iron Man Sentry Spider-Woman (Veranke) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Penciller(s) | various |
The New Avengers[1] is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. Written by Brian Michael Bendis, the series depicts a group of superheroes that form a new team of Avengers.
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[edit] Publication history
The New Avengers is a spin-off of the long-running Marvel Comics superhero-team series The Avengers. The first issue, written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by David Finch, and dated January 2005, appeared in November 2004. Finch penciled the first six issues, and issues 11-13. Succeeding pencilers with multiple-issue runs include Steve McNiven, Leinil Francis Yu, Billy Tan, and Stuart Immonen.
The team itself is not named "the New Avengers" within the series; a splinter group of Avengers that choose not to comply with federal superhuman registration, the team considers itself the authentic Avengers, as opposed to the government-sanctioned team gathered in the sister series Mighty Avengers, launched in early 2007, which itself was supplanted by a different government-sanctioned team in the series Dark Avengers, launched in late 2008.
As of late 2009, the New Avengers team consists of Luke Cage, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Ms. Marvel, Mockingbird, Spider-Woman, and team leader Ronin (the once-deceased Hawkeye, restored to life). Writer Brian Michael Bendis said in an interview that these characters are the authentic Avengers because Captain America said they were;[2] this statement is repeated when the team, believing the presumed-dead Captain America is alive, attempts to rescue him. Spider-Man claims that if they get Captain America back, they can call themselves Avengers again; Luke Cage contends that they are Avengers already.[3]
The series will end with The New Avengers #64 (April 2010), at the conclusion of the Siege storyline, with a New Avengers: Finale one-shot also being released.[4] In March 2010, Marvel announced the series would be relaunched in June 2010 as part of the company's rebranding initiative, "Heroic Age" .[5]
[edit] Fictional team biography
With the Avengers disbanded, and fellow superhero teams the Fantastic Four and the X-Men unable to act, the supervillain Electro shuts down power at the Raft, a "maximum-maximum security" prison for super-powered criminals, allowing for a mass breakout. Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman),[6] an agent for the international law-enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D., is at the Raft with attorney Matt Murdock (Daredevil) and "hero for hire" Luke Cage; they are joined by Captain America, Spider-Man, and Iron Man, as well as helped by a seemingly insane Sentry. The riot is quelled, although 42 inmates escape. Captain America declares fate has brought this group together, just as it had the original Avengers. All but Daredevil accept the offer to reform the Avengers as a result. Canadian mutant Wolverine joins the team shortly thereafter (while maintaining concurrent membership in the X-Men).
Unbeknownst to anyone, Tony Stark (Iron Man) seeks approval for the formation of the new team from the "Illuminati", a clandestine group of leaders in Earth's superhuman community formed shortly after the Kree-Skrull War. The group is composed of X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier, sorcerer supreme Doctor Stephen Strange, Prince Namor of Atlantis, Reed Richards (Mister Fantastic) of the Fantastic Four, Inhumans monarch Black Bolt, and Stark himself.
The team's first mission is to capture the remaining super-powered criminals who escaped during the riot. The unexpected emergence of an unrelated team of youthful heroes, the Young Avengers, is also a matter of concern, as is the growing sense of unease with S.H.I.E.L.D. after the disappearance of its leader, Nick Fury.
In the aftermath of the superhero "Civil War" over federal registration of superhumans, the new Avengers become an unofficial group of unregistered heroes opposed to the Superhuman Registration Act. The team moves to Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village before relocating to an empty apartment building owned by Danny Rand's (Iron Fist) Rand Corporation, but leased in the name of Samuel Sterns (the Leader, an adversary of the Hulk).[7][8][9]
Following this, the Avengers play a major role in the "Secret Invasion" of Earth by the shapeshifting alien race the Skrulls. In one confrontation, the team rescues several heroes who had been kidnapped and replaced by Skrull impostors at various unspecified times in the past. This includes the presumed-dead Mockingbird, wife of Clint Barton (Hawkeye and later Ronin), with whom she reunites. The Avengers also learn that Spider-Woman was replaced by the Skrull queen, Veranke, prior to the prison break at the Raft that had led to the formation of the New Avengers.
Upon the Skrulls' defeat, the revamped Avengers roster consists of Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Spider-Man, Ronin, Mockingbird, Luke Cage, Ms. Marvel[10], Wolverine and the real Spider-Woman. Captain America offers these "new Avengers" his home as a base of operations. Iron Fist announces he must leave the group to attend to personal business, but will remain on call. The team elects Ronin as leader (with Ms. Marvel as second-in-command), and persuades Spider-Man to reveal his closely guarded secret identity to his fellow members.[11]
[edit] Team Roster
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Main
- New Avengers #'s 1–64
- New Avengers Annual #'s 1–3
- New Avengers: Most Wanted Files
- New Avengers Illuminati
- New Avengers Illuminati vol. 2 #'s 1–5
- New Avengers/Transformers #'s 1–4
- New Avengers: The Reunion #'s 1–4
- New Avengers: Finale
[edit] Guest Stars
- Marvel Knights: Spider-Man #13-14, 18
- Iron Man Vol. 4 #7-12
- Spider-Woman Vol. 4 #5-7
- Agents of Atlas Vol. 2 #4-5
- Amazing Spider-Man #521-524, 600
- Assault On New Olympus #1
- Avengers / Invaders #1-12
- Avengers vs. Agents of Atlas #1
- Avengers: Free Comic Book Day 2009 #1
- Breaking Into Comics the Marvel Way! #1
- Captain America #600
- Captain America Vol. 5 #50
- Damage Control Vol. 4 #2
- Dark Avengers / Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1
- Dark Avengers #14
- Dark Reign: The List - Avengers #1
- Fall of the Hulks: Gamma #1
- Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #2, 5
- Fantastic Four #557
- Incredible Hercules #138-141
- Incredible Hulk #601,606-607
- Mighty Avengers #8,, 14, 23, 30-31
- Ms. Marvel Vol. 2 #40-43
- New Warriors Vol. 4 #2
- The Pulse #13
- Secret Invasion #1-8
- Siege #1-4
- Siege: Storming Asgard - Heroes & Villains #1
- Wolverine Vol. 3 #38, 42
- World War Hulk #1-5
- X-Men Vol. 2 #186
- Young Avengers Presents #6
[edit] Collected editions
The New Avengers has been collected in the following trade paperbacks. They were released as hardcover editions previously.
| Title | Material collected | ISBN | Date Released |
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| Volume 1: Breakout | The New Avengers #1-6 | ISBN 0-7851-1479-3 | January 18, 2006 |
| Volume 2: The Sentry | The New Avengers #7-10, New Avengers: Most Wanted Files | ISBN 0-7851-1672-9 | July 26, 2006 |
| Volume 3: Secrets and Lies | The New Avengers #11-15, Lead Story from Giant-Size Spider Woman #1 |
ISBN 0-7851-1706-7 | September 6, 2006 |
| Volume 4: The Collective | The New Avengers #16-20 | ISBN 0-7851-1987-6 | April 4, 2007 |
| Volume 5: Civil War | The New Avengers #21-25 | ISBN 0-7851-2446-2 | September 5, 2007 |
| Volume 6: Revolution | The New Avengers #26-31 | ISBN 0-7851-2468-3 | November 21, 2007 |
| Volume 7: The Trust | The New Avengers #32-37, The New Avengers Annual #2 | ISBN 0-7851-2503-5 | July 16, 2008 |
| Volume 8: Secret Invasion Book 1 | The New Avengers #38-42 | ISBN 0-7851-2947-9 | February 25, 2009 |
| Volume 9: Secret Invasion Book 2 | The New Avengers #43-47 | ISBN 0-7851-2948-6 | May 6, 2009 |
| Volume 10: Power | The New Avengers #48-50, Secret Invasion: Dark Reign | ISBN 0-7851-3559-3 | August 5, 2009 |
| Volume 11: Search for the Sorcerer Supreme | The New Avengers #51-54 | ISBN 0-7851-3689-7 | September 25, 2009 |
| Volume 12: Power Loss | The New Avengers #55-60 | ISBN 0-7851-4575-3 | March 24, 2010 |
| Volume 13: Siege | The New Avengers #61-64, The New Avengers Annual #3, The New Avengers Finale | 2010 |
The New Avengers also have been collected in the following hardcovers:
| Volume # | Material collected | ISBN | Date Released |
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| 1 | The New Avengers #1-10; New Avengers Most Wanted Files; New Avengers: Custom #676: Army & Air Force |
ISBN 0-7851-2464-0 | December 5, 2007 |
| 2 | The New Avengers #11-20; The New Avengers Annual #1; The lead story from: Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1 |
ISBN 0-7851-3085-3 | April 2, 2008 |
| 3 | The New Avengers #21-31; New Avengers: Illuminati; Civil War: The Confession; Civil War: The Initiative |
ISBN 0-7851-3763-7 | February 18, 2009 |
| 4 | The New Avengers #32-37; The New Avengers Annual #2; Illuminati #1-5 |
ISBN 0-7851-4262-2 | May 5, 2010 |
| 5 | The New Avengers #38-47 | ISBN 0-7851-4579-6 | July 1, 2010 |
[edit] In other media
[edit] Video games
- In the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, New Avengers are considered a team bonus if the player has any combination of Captain America, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Wolverine, Spider-Man, and/or Spider-Woman on a team.
- In the video game Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Wolverine combats Spider-Man because of the Spider-Man's black suit. To prove that he is still himself, Spider-Man is asked a series of questions by Wolverine, including who turned down the offer to join the New Avengers (the answer being Daredevil).
- In the video game Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, New Avengers is one of the bonus teams if the player has Iron Man, Ms. Marvel, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Wolverine and/or Spider-Man on their team.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The cover title, and as listed in The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators; listed as New Avengers in postal indicia and Grand Comics Database
- ^ Brady, Matt. "Meet The New Avengers: Epilogue", Newsarama January 19, 2007 (dead link)
- ^ The New Avengers #28 (May 2007)
- ^ George, Richard (January 15, 2010). "Siege Ends the Avengers". IGN. http://comics.ign.com/articles/106/1061476p1.html. Retrieved January 15, 2010.
- ^ "Luke Cage Is A New Avenger Again". Comic Book Resources. March 1, 2010. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25026. Retrieved March 2, 2010.
- ^ In actuality, as revealed in the 2008 company-wide "Secret Invasion" story arc, an alien shapeshifter posing as Drew
- ^ Sanderson, Peter (2007). The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City. New York City: Pocket Books. pp. 24–27. ISBN 1-14653-141-6.
- ^ The New Avengers #27 (April 2007)
- ^ The New Avengers #38 (October 2007)
- ^ The New Avengers #48 (February 2009)
- ^ The New Avengers #51 (May 2009). While Spider-Man had previously exposed his identity to the world in compliance with the Superhuman Registration Act, in Civil War #2 (August 2006), this revelation was erased from history by the demon Mephisto in The Amazing Spider-Man #545 (November 2007).
[edit] References
- The New Avengers at the Grand Comics Database
- The New Avengers at the Comic Book DB
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