In the first issue of the series, the new team consisted of Luke Cage, Victoria Hand, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Mockingbird, Ms. In March 2010, Marvel announced the series would be relaunched in June as part of the company's rebranding initiative, ' Heroic Age'. A one-shot titled The New Avengers: Finale was also released. The series ended with The New Avengers #64 (April 2010), at the conclusion of the ' Siege' storyline. Luke Cage contends that they are Avengers already. Spider-Man claims that if they get Captain America back, they can call themselves Avengers again. This statement is repeated when the team, believing Captain America (Rogers) is alive, attempts to rescue him. Writer Brian Michael Bendis said in an interview that these characters are the authentic Avengers because Captain America said they were. Marvel, Mockingbird, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman (Drew), Wolverine, and team leader Luke Cage. At this time the team welcomed Clint Barton (recently returned from the dead) as Ronin, as well as Doctor Strange and Iron Fist.īy the end of the first volume, the New Avengers team consisted of Ronin, Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Ms. This series launched in early 2007 and was itself supplanted by a different government-sanctioned team in the series Dark Avengers, which was launched in late 2008. A concurrent government-sanctioned team gathered in the sister series The Mighty Avengers. A splinter group of Avengers that chose not to comply with federal superhuman registration, the team considers itself the authentic Avengers. The team itself was not named the 'New Avengers' within the series. Later stretches included the mutant X-Man Wolverine, the unstable and godlike Sentry, and the deaf ninja Echo, in the guise of Ronin. The roster at first comprises Luke Cage, Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man and ' Spider-Woman' (Veranke). Succeeding pencilers with multiple-issue runs include Steve McNiven, Leinil Francis Yu, Billy Tan, and Stuart Immonen. Finch penciled the first six issues and issues #11-13. The first issue, written by Brian Michael Bendis and penciled by David Finch, was dated January 2005 but appeared in November 2004. The New Avengers is a spin-off of the long-running Marvel Comics series The Avengers. The fourth is written by Al Ewing and depicts the former scientific terrorist group A.I.M., reformed as 'Avengers Idea Mechanics', whose field team has appropriated the name 'New Avengers' for itself.įurther information: List of New Avengers story arcs Volume 1 (2005–2010) The third was written by Jonathan Hickman and depicted a group of characters called the Illuminati (formerly introduced in New Avengers Vol.

The first two were written by Brian Michael Bendis and depicted a version of Marvel's premiere superhero team, the Avengers.

The title has been used for four American comic book series.

The New Avengers is a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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