Sunday, July 15, 2018

New Avengers [2005-2010]


[Brian Michael Bendis] 
New Avengers #1-64 [#504-567], Annuals #1-3 (January 2005 – April 2010)
New Avengers Finale (2010)
Base of Operations: Avengers Tower
Team is formed in New Avengers #3

The Avengers disassembled following Scarlet Witch's attack. When there is a breakout at the Raft, heroes responded to stop the supervillains and banded together to form a new Avengers team.

Captain America (Steve Rogers)

Iron Man (Tony Stark)

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Luke Cage

Spider Woman (Jessica Drew imposter, Queen Veranke)

Wolverine (James Howlett), joined New Avengers #7

Sentry (Robert Reynolds), joined New Avengers #10

Ronin (Maya Lopez), active New Avengers #11

Notes
#1-6: Raft breakout; vs Savage Land Mutates, Sauron and Yelena Belova in Savage Land
New Avengers: Illuminati #1: Illuminati meets to discuss about the Superhuman Registration Act
Young Avengers #1-12: Appearances
House of M #1-8: Crossover
#7-10: Recruit Sentry
#11-13: vs Silver Samurai, Viper & the Hand in Japan, with Ronin
#14-15: Secret history of Spider-Woman
#16-20: Collective in Genosha
#21-25: Civil War-tie ins - Captain America, Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, Sentry, Iron Man
#26: Hawkeye finds Wanda Maximoff (actually a Doombot) near Wundagore Mountain
Annual (2006) #1: Vs Yelena-Super Adaptoid; Marriage of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones

The team disbanded during Civil War. Luke Cage formed a new team of anti-registration heroes in the pages of the New Avengers. Iron Man formed a team of pro-registration heroes in Mighty Avengers.


Post-Civil War
Base of Operations: Sanctum Sanctorum 

Luke Cage

Iron Fist (Danny Rand)

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Dr Strange (Stephan Strange)

Spider Woman (Queen Veranke, Jessica Drew imposter)

Ronin (Clint Barton)

Echo (Maya Lopez)


Notes
#27-32: Rescue Echo from Elektra and the Hand. Elektra discovered to be a Skrull. Spider-Woman leaves to join Mighty Avengers
World War Hulk #1-5: Crossover
Avengers/Inavders #1-12: with Mighty Avengers and Invaders vs Red Skrull
#33-37, Annual (2016) #2: vs Hood and his syndicate of super villains. Dr Strange leaves
Giant-Size Avengers #1: Short stories
#38: Secret Invasion tie-in: Jessica Jones leaves and stays with the Mighty Avengers
#39: Secret Invasion tie-in: Echo and Wolverine vs a Skrull
#40-45 : Secret Invasion tie-in: History of Queen Veranke and the machinations of the Skrulls
#46: Secret Invasion tie-in: Dormammu grants Hood powers
#47: Secret Invasion tie-in: Skrull-Jarvis takes Danielle Cage


Dark Reign
Base of Operations: Residential apartment leased by Rand Corporation

Luke Cage

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Ronin (Clint Barton)

Captain America (Bucky Barnes)

Mockingbird (Barbara Morse)

Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers)

Spider Woman (Jessica Drew)

 Notes
#48-49: Cage gets the Dark Avengers' help to retrieve her daughter from the Jarvis-Skrull
#50: Gets tricked to fight Hood and his syndicate of supervillains
FCBD 2009: New Avengers and Dark Avengers team vs Ymir
#51-54: Team tries to find the new Sorcerer Supreme before the Hood. Brother Voodoo takes on the title. Together with Dr Strange, Dr Voodoo and Daimon Hellstrom defeats Dormammu and Hood
#55-60: Hood's syndicate of villains defeat the New Avengers and the Dark Avengers with technology that can siphon away super powers, before surrendering their technology to Osborn. Luke Cage gets a heart attack and gets captured by the Dark Avengers. Cage's friends (Iron Fist, Daredevil, Sr Strange, Valkyrie, Hellcat, Dr Voodoo, Thing, Misty Knight) break Cage out. Hank Pym and Dr Strange help to remove the bomb in his heart. Hood finds asgardian Norn Stones.
Dark Reign: The List - Avengers & Annual (2009) #3: Ronin fails to assassinate Osborn. The team rescues him.
#61-62: Siege tie-ins: Defeat Hood's syndicate with the help of the Secret Warriors
#63-64: Vs Hood's syndicate in the siege of Asgard
Finale: Vs Hood

Siege event: Norman Osborn engineered an incident to justify an attack of the Dark Avengers, heroes in the Initiative, supervillains and the military on Asgard in Broxton, Oklahoma. Steve Rogers returned to lead the heroes to defeat Osborn's forces. In the aftermath, Steve Rogers was asked to take over Osborn's position as primary defense officer. He formed the main Avengers team based in the Avengers Tower and the black-ops Secret Avengers team. He also requested Luke Cage to continue leading his own team of Avengers and Tony Stark sold Cage the Mansion for a dollar for the team to use as a base.  

VOLUME 2 [HEROIC AGE]




Heroic Age
New Avengers vol. 2, #1-34 (June 2010 – November 2012)
New Avengers Annual #1 (2011)

Base of Operations: Avengers Mansion

Luke Cage

Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers)

Thing (Benjamin Grimm)

Mockingbird (Barbara Morse)

Iron Fist (Daniel Rand)

Jessica Jones

Dr Strange

Victoria Hand, liaison

Daredevil, joined NA #16

Notes
#1-6: With Dr Voodoo and Daimon Hellstrom vs Agamotto. Dr Voodoo sacrifices himself.
#7: Wong becomes housekeeper and Squirrel Girl becomes babysitter to Danielle Cage
#8: Cage and Jones have a date. Fights a Doombot.
#9-13: In 1959, Nick Fury assembles a team of Avengers to defeat the Red Skull and retrieve a briefcase of Infinity Formula. Mockingbird is injured while the team, with Hawkeye and Spider Woman, fought HAMMER. Nick Fury provides the Infinity Formula to save Mockingbird.
New Avengers Annual (2011) #1 & Annual (2012) #1: Vs Wonder Man & Revengers (Captain Ultra, Virtue, Devil-Slayer, Atlas, Goliath, Century, D-Man, Anti-Venom)
#14-16: Fear Itself tie-in: Vs Thule Society's Blitzkrieg in New York. Squirrel Girl saves Danielle Cage. Daredevil joins the team.  
#16.1: Osborn is rescued from the Raft by Dr. Wentworth
#17-23: Vs HAMMER's Ultimo. Vs Osborn's new team of Avengers. Jessica Jones leaves.
#24: AvX tie-in: Captain America recruits the Avengers to fight the X-Men.
#25-27: AvX tie-in: K'un L'un's Yu-Ti's memory of  training a girl avatar of the Phoenix and dealing with the Phoenix along with Leonardo Da Vinci
#28: AvX tie-in: Luke Cage, Spider Woman and Hawkeye escapes the X-Men's prison in a simulation
#29: AvX tie-in: Illuminati meeting
#30: AvX tie-in: Emma Frost escapes from an escort with Cage, Daredevil, Thing and Mockingbird
#31-34: Vs Daniel Drumm. Strange returns as Sorcerer Supreme. Cage sells the Mansion back to Stark. The team disassembles.

Later, Luke Cage forms a new Avengers team in the pages of the Mighty Avengers. The Avengers Unity Squad takes over the Mansion as a base.

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