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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published July 2010
Frequency Monthly
Cover Price 3.99 USD
Pages 44
Editing Tom Brevoort; Lauren Sankovich (Associate Editor)
Notes There are numerous covers to this issue, most of which have not been indexed yet.

Cover Details

Characters Avengers [Captain America [James Buchanan Barnes]; Wolverine; Thor; Iron Man; Spider-Man]
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita Jr. [as JRJR] (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)
Colors Dean White (signed)
Notes This cover sports the Heroic Age trade dress.

24 page Avengers story "Next Avengers Part 1"

Characters Immortus; Next Avengers [?; ?; ?; ?; ?]; Steve Rogers; War Machine (Cameo); Black Widow (Cameo); Justice (Cameo); Hulkling (Cameo); Tigra (Cameo); Patriot (Cameo); Luke Cage (Cameo); Iron Fist (Cameo); Jewel (Cameo); Mockingbird (Cameo); Doctor Strange (Cameo); Hawkeye [Kate Bishop] (Cameo); Speed (Cameo); Stature (Cameo); Wiccan (Cameo); Vision (Cameo); Wasp [Hank Pym] (Cameo); Beast (Cameo); Wonder Man; Avengers [Captain America [James Buchanan Barnes]; Wolverine; Thor; Iron Man; Spider-Man; Spider-Woman; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]]; Edwin Jarvis; Maria Hill; Kang; Hulk (alternate future); ?
Synopsis Steve Rogers reforms the Avengers under Maria Hill's leadership. Out of all the heroes, only Wonder Man declines and seems set against the Avengers reforming. Then Kang burst in, telling the Avengers that they have to travel into the future to stop their future children from destroying the world.
Genre superhero
Script Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils John Romita Jr.
Inks Klaus Janson
Colors Dean White
Letters Cory Petit [as VC's Cory Petit]
Notes Not all characters identified.

8 page text story "Avengers Assemble The Oral History of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes"

Genre superhero
Pencils Arthur Adams (signed); Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Arthur Adams (signed); none
Colors Laura Martin (signed); Dean White (signed)
Letters Typeset
Notes Continued in New Avengers (Marvel, 2010 series) #1.

1 page Avengers promo (ad from the publisher) "Next Issue!"

Characters Steve Rogers; Avengers [Captain America [James Buchanan Barnes]; Wolverine; Thor; Iron Man; Spider-Man; Spider-Woman]; Wonder Man
Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita Jr. [as JRJR] (signed)
Inks Klaus Janson (signed)
Colors Dean White (signed)
Letters Typeset
Notes Preview of next issue's cover, as small as miniature covers of Age of Heroes #1, Secret Avengers #1 and Enter the Heroic Age #1.