Avengers (comics) in other media

The Avengers are a fictional superhero team created by Marvel Comics that appear in comic books and various forms of media.

Novels

• The Avengers Battle the Earth-Wrecker by Otto Binder was published as a mass market paperback novel by Bantam Books (F3569) in June 1967. The cover illustration depicts Captain America, Goliath; Hawkeye; Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (the latter pair do not actually appear).
• The team also feature in the Pocket Books line of Marvel-based paperback novels of the late 1970s. Jim Shooter's short story "This Evil Undying" (1979) - featuring the robot Ultron as the villain - appeared as part of an anthology entitled The Marvel Superheroes,. The story was later adapted for the ongoing title.^[1]
• The Man Who Stole Tomorrow (1979), a full-length novel by David Michelinie, describes the Avengers team battle with Kang the Conqueror in the 40th century.
• The Berkeley Boulevard imprint published several Avengers tie-ins, "each a team-up" with other superhero teams: with the X-Men against the Leader in Greg Cox's Gamma Quest trilogy (1999–2000) and with the Thunderbolts against Baron Zemo in Pierce Askegren's The Avengers & the Thunderbolts (1999).
• Pocket Books has published two tie-ins with the alternate universe team the Ultimates, being Michael Jan Friedman's Tomorrow Men (2006) and Alex Irvine's Against All Enemies (2007).

Animated series

Screen capture from The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode, "Breakout" (2010).

• Adaptations of Avengers stories appeared in the 1966 The Marvel Super Heroes, primarily in the "Captain America" and "The Incredible Hulk" segments. The series ran in syndication four, sometimes five, days a week, with Monday's episode featuring "Captain America," Tuesday's episode featuring "The Incredible Hulk," Thursday's episode featuring "Thor," Friday's episode featuring "Iron Man," and Wednesday's episode (when it aired) featuring "Submariner."
• The team also made appearances in the 1980 Spider-Man series.
• The Fantastic Four animated series featured non-speaking cameos by The Avengers. In the season two episode "To Battle the Living Planet" the Avengers assist the Fantastic Four in rescuing earthquake victims. The Avengers appear once more in "Doomsday" briefly fighting Dr. Doom. Aside from these, both Thor and The Hulk make guest appearances in episodes in speaking parts. It should also be noted the Avengers appearing in both episodes (Captain America, Iron Man, The Vision, Hercules, She-Hulk, Giant Man, and Wasp) don't fit with the roster shown in Avengers: United They Stand.
• In the X-Men animated series, an alternate version of The Avengers appeared in the episode "One Man's Worth". In a timeline in which Charles Xavier was murdered before founding the X-Men, Captain America is the leader of The Avengers, a taskforce of superhuman mutant hunters fighting a war against the Mutant Resistance led by Magneto.

The Avengers: United They Stand

The Avengers (also known as The Avengers: United They Stand), was an animated series consisting of thirteen episodes. It originally aired from October 30, 1999 to February 26, 2000, and was produced by Avi Arad and distributed by 20th Century Fox Television. This series featured a team composed of Ant-Man (leader); the Wasp; Wonder Man; Tigra; Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch. The Falcon and the Vision were added to the roster in the opening episodes. Captain America and Iron Man only make one appearance while Thor only appears in the opening titles and would've appeared in the proposed season two.

The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

The Marvel Animation division and the outside studio Film Roman are producing an Avengers animated TV series, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which began broadcast in 2010.^[2] The show debuted on Disney XD in Fall 2010 starting with a 20 part micro-series.^[3] The series features a team based on the roster for the original Avengers, composed of Ant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, and the Wasp, with Captain America, Black Panther, Ms. Marvel and Hawkeye later joining the ranks.^[4]

Film

Screenshot from the 2012 Marvel Studios film, The Avengers.

Marvel Animation films

Marvel Animation has produced two animated films based upon the Ultimate incarnations of the Avengers; Ultimate Avengers and Ultimate Avengers 2. Children of the Avengers are featured in the animated film; Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow.

Marvel Studios films

Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios released the live-action film The Avengers on May 4, 2012.^[5][6] Joss Whedon rewrote and directed the film^[7] while Iron Man director Jon Favreau acted as executive producer.^[8] Cast team members include Chris Evans as Captain America,^[9] Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man,^[8] Chris Hemsworth as Thor,^[10] Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury,^[11] Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow,^[12] Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye^[13] and Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner^[14] (Lou Ferrigno voices the Hulk^[15]).

Video and computer games

The Avengers feature in the arcade and console game Captain America and the Avengers (1991); Avengers in Galactic Storm (1995); Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (2006) and its sequel Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 (2009).

References

External links

• The Avengers at the Internet Movie Database

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