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first Avengers
Dates
- Cover date
- July 2010
- On sale
- May 19, 2010
- Pages
- 44
Editions and covers (12)
Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 75960607015200111
Source ↗ - Variant Edition - 'Launch Party Exclusive' - John Romita Jr. Gatefold Cover
Barcode 75960607015200141
This edition’s page - Variant Edition - John Romita Cover
Barcode 75960607015200151 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Premiere Edition - John Romita Jr. CoverThis edition’s page
- Variant Edition - Comic Con Exclusive - John Romita Cover
Barcode 75960607015200151 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - 2nd printing
2nd Printing Variant - John Romita Jr. Cover
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960607015200116
This edition’s page - 2nd printing
2nd Printing Variant - Blank Cover
Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.
Barcode 75960607015200117
This edition’s page - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07148603923507
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Next Avengers Part 1 · 24 pages
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 bursts in, telling the Avengers that they have to travel into the future to stop their future children from destroying the world.
- Avengers Assemble The Oral History of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes · 8 pages
Characters
Reprinted in
Avengers Sampler (2012), Heroic Age (2010), Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis (2011), Spider-Man: Am I an Avenger? (2011), Avengers Assemble (2012), Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: Heroic Age (2012), Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis (2014), Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis: The Complete Collection (2017)