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Comic Book: Avengers (2010 series)

What This Book is About:
Volume 4: after the crises of Avengers Disassembled, Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign, and Siege, the Earth's Mightiest Heroes reteamed to enter the Heroic Age!

Data Sheet:
Dates
May 2010 to Nov 2012
2010
N/A

Characters most frequently found in this comic book:
In order of appearances.

Hawkeye
Hawkeye

(Clint Barton)
Iron Man
Iron Man

(Tony Stark)
Captain America
Captain America

(Steve Rogers)
Thor
Thor

(Odinson)
Spider-Woman
Spider-Woman

(Jessica Drew)
Spider-Man
Spider-Man

(Peter Parker)
Wolverine
Wolverine

(James Howlett)
Red Hulk
Red Hulk

(Thunderbolt Ross)
Plus: Protector (Noh-Varr).
Avengers #1
Avengers #1

(Jun 2010)

Comics Index

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Total Indexed Comics: 34

Comics sorted by date. Oldest shown first. Up to 25 comics per page. Page navigator at the bottom of the page.

Avengers #1
5 stars

Avengers #1

June 2010
"Next Avengers Part 1"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The book starts with a figure saying that he is Immortus, Master of Time and that he will watch the deaths of the group of beings standing before him. There is a bolt of lightning that kills him. [...]
Avengers #2
5 stars

Avengers #2

June 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Wolverine has brought rest of the Avengers (Captain America (Bucky), Hawkeye, Iron Man, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Thor and their leader Maria Hill) to meet Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr), who will be able to help them see the future, and build a time-machine to travel there. [...]
Avengers #3
5 stars

Avengers #3

July 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
A girl is watching the signs of battle in Avengers Tower from her apartment, when suddenly Thor's body crashes into the room. [...]
Avengers #4
5 stars

Avengers #4

August 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Protector has transported Captain America (Bucky), Iron Man and Wolverine to the future in the Central Park cave. Tony Stark has calculated that this time and place is the origin of the disruptions messing up spacetime. Looking out they see an enormous battle. [...]
Avengers #5
5 stars

Avengers #5

September 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
In the present Hawkeye, Maria Hill, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman and Killraven are at a loss what to do to as elements from various times and alternate realities infest the streets and skies of New York. But Thor knows what the biggest threat is, as he attacks Galactus. [...]
Avengers #6
5 stars

Avengers #6

October 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The time-travelling Avengers (Captain America (Bucky), Iron Man, Protector and Wolverine) confront Ultron in a desolate future, just before Kang is due to attack him with an army of Marvel superbeings. They warn him of the impending attack, and he senses they are telling the truth. [...]
Avengers #7
4 stars

Avengers #7

November 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The Hood has hired guides to take him to the site where the Inhumans' city of Attilan once stood in the Himalayas. All that is left is underground rooms. Now that they've reached their destination, he kills them, despite not knowing how to get home. [...]
Avengers #8
4 stars

Avengers #8

December 2010
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Iron Man has called the Illuminati together at their regular meeting place in the abandoned Stark Enterprises subsidiary FunTime Inc. Dr Strange arrives, complaining that they had agreed to stop meeting. Sub-Mariner is even more angry because he quit the group. [...]
Avengers #9
4 stars

Avengers #9

January 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Last issue Iron Man left Avengers Tower suspiciously after learning that someone had attacked Red Hulk with an Infinity Gem or two. [...]
Avengers #10
4 stars

Avengers #10

February 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Sub-Mariner leads Red Hulk and Thor to the depths of the ocean. (Those last 2 can presumably hold their breath a long time.) They are seeking his Infinity Gem. [...]
Avengers #11
4.5 stars

Avengers #11

March 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The Avengers are fighting the Hood for control of the Infinity Gems, and Uatu the Watcher has turned up to watch. He muses on how often he has broken his vow of non-interference to help humans. But he's been told off by his race of Watchers. [...]
Avengers #12
5 stars

Avengers #12

April 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The Hood has been fighting the Avengers for possession of the 6 Infinity Gems. He has the Reality, Space and Mind Gems while the Avengers have the Power and Time Gems. Now Parker Robbins has come to the Astral Plane for the Soul Gem, but finds himself facing Thanos. [...]
Avengers #13
4 stars

Avengers #13

May 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
A lot of this issue is written in the form of snippets of interviews for Avengers Assemble: an Oral History of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes. [...]
Avengers #14
4 stars

Avengers #14

June 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Like last issue, this issue has the action embedded amongst talking head mini-interviews.One major strand of the interviews shows how Avengers members were unsure of the Red Hulk. But that the events of this issue showed he was true Avengers material. [...]
Avengers #15
4 stars

Avengers #15

July 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The events of this issue are again surrounded by talking heads. But at least they're all talking about this issue. This issue centres around Spider-Woman, and the chat is all about her too. She is insecure as an Avenger, and looking for a single heroic act to redeem her shady past. [...]
Avengers #16
4 stars

Avengers #16

August 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
This issue opens with the talking heads, which this time comment on how Captain America changes to reflect the country's mood. But this time he's reflecting his own mood, sadness and anger after Sin/Skadi killed Bucky in Fear Itself #3. [...]
Avengers #17
4 stars

Avengers #17

September 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The talking heads this time are nearly all characters who actually appear in the story, talking about the story. Indeed in some cases the only way we know what is happening is because they tell us. [...]
Avengers #18
4 stars

Avengers #18

October 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
This issue really contains 2 intersecting stories. Ostensibly it's about Captain America (Steve Rogers) picking the next Avengers lineup. It's after Fear Itself, and Cap (Bucky Barnes) and Thor are supposedly newly-dead. [...]
Avengers #19
4 stars

Avengers #19

November 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
SHIELD agent Daisy Johnson, aka Quake who was one of Nick Fury's Secret Warriors, is investigating Norman Osborn's escape from the Raft in New Avengers #16.1. She is accompanied by Hawkeye and Spider-Woman, who of course weren't involved in the escape because they're not New Avengers. [...]
Avengers #20
4 stars

Avengers #20

December 2011
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
This issue picks up from the end of #18 rather than #19, with renegade SHIELD scientist Carolina Washington at AIM HQ putting her case before the triumvirate of Norman Osborn, Madame Hydra and Superia, leading a combination of AIM, Hand, HAMMER and Hydra, under the overall name of HAMMER. [...]
Avengers #21
4 stars

Avengers #21

January 2012
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The Avengers have split up to try to track down Norman Osborn and his allies.Hawkeye and Spider-Woman are in Thunderbolts Mountain, menaced by Hulk-like Hydra agents with Spider-powers. [...]
Avengers #22
4 stars

Avengers #22

February 2012
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
Most of the current team have been captured by Norman Osborn's alliance of AIM, HAMMER, Hand and Hydra. We follow some of them here in their captivity. [...]
Avengers #23
4 stars

Avengers #23

February 2012
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
A representative of the US Government with full military backing arrives at a meeting in the desert with Madame Hydra and an unarmed Hydra troop. Hydra has the captive Captain America. The US rep has a holographic device through which Madame Hydra can negotiate with the Cabinet. [...]
Avengers #24
4 stars

Avengers #24

March 2012
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
I've been assuming that Norman Osborn's display of powers in recent issues of this series and New Avengers were due to renegade SHIELD agent Carolina Washington's collection of super-being samples. But now we discover differently. [...]
Avengers #25
4 stars

Avengers #25

April 2012
"(no title given)"
Script: Brian Michael Bendis
The issue opens with a double-page spread of the battle between Avengers and X-Men on Utopia island in Avengers vs X-Men #2. But it immediately shifts back in time to a period between the fight against Norman Osborn's HAMMER coalition and Avengers vs X-Men. [...]