Dark Avengers
| Dark Avengers | |
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Cover of Dark Avengers 1 (Jan, 2009).Art by Mike Deodato Jr.
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| Series publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(Volume 1) March 2009 – June 2010 (Volume 1 continued) August 2012 – present |
| Number of issues |
(vol. 1) 16 (vol. 1 cont.) 10 (as of December 2012) |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Artist(s) | Mike Deodato |
| Colorist(s) | Rain Beredo |
| Creator(s) | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Collected editions | |
| Dark Avengers Assemble | |
| Molecule Man | |
| Siege | |
| Dark Avengers | |
| Group publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Dark Avengers #1 (January 2009) |
| Created by | Brian Michael Bendis |
| In-story information | |
| Base(s) | NYC |
| Leader(s) |
U.S. Agent Formerly: Norman Osborn Victoria Hand Luke Cage |
| Member(s) |
Current Members: Captain Marvel (Moonstone) Scarlet Witch (Toxie Doxie) Thor (Ragnarok) Former Members: Ares (John Aaron) Captain Marvel (Noh-Varr) Hawkeye (Bullseye) Hawkeye (Trickshot) Hulk (Skaar) Ms. Marvel (Superia) Sentry (The Void) Spider-Man (Ai Apaec) Spider-Man (Venom) Wolverine (Daken) Wolverine (Gorgon) |
Dark Avengers is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics. It is part of a series of titles that have featured various iterations of the superhero team the Avengers. Unusually, the series stars a version of the team that, unknown to the public in its fictional universe, contains several members who are supervillains disguised as established superheroes.
The series debuted with issue #1, dated January 2009, as part of a multi-series story arc entitled "Dark Reign." In the premiere, writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mike Deodato (working from a continuity begun in a previous, company-wide story arc, "Secret Invasion," involving an infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien Skrulls and that race's eventual defeat) chronicled the aftermath of the U.S. government's disbanding of the federally sanctioned superhero team, the Avengers. Bendis described the thinking behind the team: "These are bad-ass, hardcore get-it-done types. They'll close the door and take care of business and he's dressing them up to make them something that the people want." This is in contrast to the changes Norman Osborn is shown making to the Thunderbolts, where, according to writer Andy Diggle, he turns that team into "something much more covert and much more lethal: his own personal hit squad".
The series ended with Dark Avengers #16, at the culmination of the Siege storyline.
The Thunderbolts comic book was renamed Dark Avengers beginning with issue #175, but the creative team remained unchanged. Dark Avengers ended with issue #190.
The government assigned the team's redevelopment to Norman Osborn (the reformed supervillain now calling himself the Iron Patriot) whom the government had previously assigned to head the superhero team the Thunderbolts and who had become a public hero for his role in repelling the Skrull threat. Osborn, also given leadership of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., reforms that agency into H.A.M.M.E.R. and creates a new Avengers team under its aegis.
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