Heroic Age (comics)
| "The Heroic Age" | |
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Promotional Image for The Heroic Age.
Art by Jim Cheung. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Publication date | April 2010 |
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| Main character(s) | Avengers |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Various |
| Artist(s) | Various |
"The Heroic Age" is a 2010 comic book branding that ran through a number of books published by Marvel Comics. It began in May 2010, marking a major change in the status quo of the Marvel Universe after the events of the "Siege" crossover event, such as "The Initiative" and "Dark Reign" dealt with the aftermath of "Civil War" and "Secret Invasion", respectively.
Marvel publisher Dan Buckley stated that the "Heroic Age" was intended to be more constrained in its scope than previous initiatives:
We're trying to get a little bit more into the families of publishing, not as line-wide, to provide people with very digestible beginning, middle, and end content with top characters and top creators in conjunction with the Marvel Universe... It's not going across the line in the books. You’ll see that with the X-Men books, you'll see it with Spider-Man.
The initiative began in May 2010's Avengers #1, which reunited Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and Hawkeye as teammates. The same month saw the start of a four-issue comics anthology limited series called Age of Heroes, with Kurt Busiek writing the lead story. The idea behind the series is that, according to Tom Brevoort, "seeing as how Heroic Age will impact on characters both large and small, we thought it might be fun to do an anthology to delve into some of these stories and to touch upon some of these characters". Busiek's story involves J. Jonah Jameson, whereas Rick Remender's stars Doctor Voodoo, and Paul Cornell features Captain Britain and MI13 and the Young Masters.
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