The big Avengers shake-up of 2004 ended up having a pretty profound impact on the Marvel Universe as a whole. The publisher’s aim was to make Earth’s Mightiest Heroes exciting again to match the popularity of the Ultimates (their Ultimate Universe counterparts) by putting writer Brian Michael Bendis at the helm and tearing the classic team apart; making room for the ‘New Avengers’, and adding giving the team an all-star line-up (during BREAKOUT, 2005).
Marvel had moved away from mega-events for a few years, making Avengers Disassembled feel a little more special, though it would lead to further – sometimes even larger – mega-events like HOUSE OF M, CIVIL WAR, SECRET INVASION (2008-2009) and SIEGE.
For the most part, the tie-ins have little impact on the ‘disassembling’ of the Avengers. Iron Man‘s prologue story is largely redundant while the aftermath tale just focuses on putting Tony Stark‘s secret identity back in place. Spider-Man‘s tie-ins are designed to align with the version of Spidey from the Tobey Maguire films, but has almost nothing to do with the end of the Avengers. It could be argued that it reminds Captain America that the web-slinger is a worthy ally, which comes into play later. Thor‘s story features some major disassembling and removes Thor from the board for some time, prompting Cap and Iron Man to seek new allies.
Major event: With a primary mini-series and numerous related tie-ins, Avengers Disassembled is considered to be one of the biggest events in the history of the Marvel Universe.
Must-Reads: Issues marked with a ✔are essential to the story.
Spoilers: The issue descriptions and fallout section contain spoilers, so be warned!
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the chronological reading order without story descriptions, or spoilers:
- Iron Man #84-85
- Thor #80-81
- Captain America #29
- Captain America and the Falcon #5-7
- Avengers #500-503
- Excalibur #8 (tie-in)
- Iron Man #86-89
- Excalibur #9-10 (tie-in)
- Captain America #30-32
- Fantastic Four #517-519
- Spectacular Spider-Man #15-20
- Thor #82-85
- Avengers Finale #1
- New Thunderbolts #1 (tie-in)
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Iron Man #84 Tony Stark recently became Secretary of Defence, while the Avengers were granted international authority by the United Nations. Tony began to find his role with the US Government and his activities as Iron Man at odds. Senator Joe Zimmer brings a secret military doomsday device created by Tony’s father, Howard Stark, to his attention. He forces Stark to choose between the Avengers and his new role. Another Arsenal robot is buried beneath Avengers Mansion and was intended to destroy American cities before the Russians could if the Cold War ever heated up. Tony deactivates the robot without the other Avengers or the public finding out, until his complete lack of subtlety kicks alerts the team and kicks the Arsenal robot kicks into high gear… 1st appearance: Arsenal Alpha | |
| Iron Man #85 The Arsenal robot rips through Avengers Mansion, up onto the grounds. With the help of Warbird and their fellow Avengers, Stark figures out what caused the activation of the robot. Despite this heinous mistake, Tony keeps his job, stays with the Avengers and convinces himself he’s a better politician than he thought he was. | |
| ✔ | Thor #80 Loki obtains the mould used to create Thor‘s hammer, Mjolnir, and allows Surtur to use it to forge weapons for himself, Ymir, Ulik and Fenris. The four of them attack Asgard, killing the Enchantress and shattering Mjolnir in their initial assault. Thor dodges Jormungand (the Midgard Serpent) and escapes to Earth where he seeks the Avengers… |
| ✔ | Thor #81 Iron Man and Captain America accompany Thor to Asgard which now lies in ruins. Together, they take on Loki’s forces, defeating Ymir, Ulik and Fenris and destroying their weapons, forcing Loki to escape. After discovering Balder‘s body, Thor realises Ragnarok is coming. He teleports Iron Man and Cap home against their will and prepares the remaining Asgardians for honourable deaths as warriors… |
| Captain America #29 After Captain America takes down Mister Hyde, Nick Fury sends him on a mission with Diamondback to rescue a US Senator from the clutches of Hydra. With the mission complete, Cap rushes off to Avengers Mansion to deal with a ‘code white’ distress call while Diamondback reports in to her boss, the Red Skull… | |
| Excalibur #8 (pp.1-16) (tie-in) On the ruins of the island of Genosha, Professor X (Charles Xavier) and Magneto start to rebuild the former mutant haven that was destroyed by Cassandra Nova. Xavier even allows the island’s prisoners – Dark Beast and the Magistrates – to join in, along with the other mutant survivors. 1st appearance: Book/Annika, Broadband | |
| Captain America and the Falcon #5 On a mission for SHIELD, Falcon has found himself imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, discovered the existence of the Anti-Cap and learned the US Navy have been working with the criminal underground to create an experimental drug as a weapon. Falcon escapes, reunites with Captain America and is pursued by the Navy through the streets of New York. The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) helps them both evade capture. Cap gains a sample of Luke Cage‘s blood to help Hank Pym create a serum to keep the Anti-Cap alive. After shaking off hallucinations, Cap takes Navy whistleblower Jimmy Westbrook to the Daily Bugle. Westbrook unexpectedly orders the Falcon’s arrest, so Falcon shoots Westbrook in the chest… | |
| Captain America and the Falcon #6 Westbrook survives as the Falcon reveals he was wearing a bullet-proof vest. Cap and the Falcon escape the Daily Bugle, again with the help of the Scarlet Witch and the Avengers. The Navy send armed choppers after the Falcon who evades their gunfire using his new holo-wings, created by the Black Panther. Cap’s hallucinations get worse as he believes he’s trapped in ice again. Later, the Scarlet Witch calms Cap down by kissing him… 1st appearance: Damocles Rivas (cameo) | |
| Captain America and the Falcon #7 Captain America and the Scarlet Witch dodge the topic of sleeping together. The Falcon convinces his ex-girlfriend Leila Taylor to help him. Cap dreams about Bucky’s death, being recovered by the Avengers and being kissed by the Scarlet Witch. Later, at the General Assembly of the United Nations, Tony Stark prepares to give an address. Cap tries to talk to the Scarlet Witch, but she doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about… |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Avengers #500An undead Jack of Hearts shows up at Avengers Mansion and explodes, killing Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and causing massive damage to the building and it’s grounds. At the UN, Tony Stark addresses the delegates until he suddently starts acts like he’s drunk. He’s removed for threatening the delegate from Latveria. Back at Avengers Mansion, the Vision crashes a Quinjet into the remains of the building. When he emerges, Vision’s face melts and balls pop out of his mouth that grow into Ultrons. She-Hulk smashes an Ultron, but her rage gives way and she rips the Vision in two. She then swats the Wasp and attacks the other Avengers, hurling a jeep at Captain America.. |
| ✔ | Avengers #501 Tony Stark is fired as US Secretary of Defence. He arrives at Avengers Mansion in time to save Captain America from the rampaging She-Hulk. Yellowjacket (Hank Pym) rushes Wasp and Falcon to hospital. She-Hulk is put in stasis by SHIELD. Vision’s remains are placed in storage. Ant-Man is sent to the morgue. Pym watches over the Wasp while she remains unconscious and stuck at Wasp size. A whole host of reserve and former Avengers (including some who can’t possibly be there) arrive at Avengers Mansion ready to help… |
| Excalibur #8 (pp.17-20) (tie-in) When Magneto hears about the attack on Avengers Mansion, he uses his powers to open a wormhole and transport himself out of Genosha… | |
| ✔ | Avengers #502 The UN publicly disavow the Avengers. Nick Fury orders everyone to disperse from Avengers Mansion immediately to avoid contaminating the crime scene. A huge Kree troop ship appears above them, though the SHIELD Helicarrier struggles to get any kind of reading on it. When the Kree forces attack the Avengers, Hawkeye grabs one of the jetpack-wearing Kree troops and flies him into the ship’s engine. The ensuing explosion costs the archer his life, but sends the Kree into retreat. When Doctor Strange arrives, Captain America realises who their true enemy is… |
| Excalibur #8 (pp.21-22) (tie-in) While Magneto’s away, Professor X explains to Callisto that no one is sure of the extent of Magneto’s powers and that they need to be ready for the day when he reaches his full potential… | |
| ✔ | Avengers #503 A few weeks ago, the Wasp admitted to the Scarlet Witch that she’s been seeing Hawkeye and accidentally reminded Wanda that she and the Vision once had two kids. Wanda then visited her former mentor, Agatha Harkness, demanding to know where her children were. Now, Doctor Strange and the Avengers figure the Scarlet Witch is behind the attacks on the team and travel to Agatha’s house. Captain America enters the building to find the Scarlet Witch in her own little reality, sat around a table with her two kids, the Vision, Agatha Harkness and Wonder Man. Cap’s attempt to reason with Wanda prompts her to create a facsimile Red Skull and a batch of Nazi troops to force him out of the building, while other facsimiles assault the Avengers. Doctor Strange subdues the Witch, leaving her unconscious in Cap’s arms. Magneto suddenly arrives and takes his daughter away, leaving a legion of distraught Avengers and a rotten Agatha Harkness carcass. |
| Excalibur #8 (pp.23) (tie-in) Magneto returns to Genosha with his daughter, the Scarlet Witch, in his arms and dressed in his original costume once again… | |
| Iron Man #86 With everyone now believing Tony Stark has fallen off the wagon, Stark Enterprises consider changing the company’s name. When the Board of Directors meet to discuss the new direction for the company, ‘Iron Man’ crashes through the window and kills them all. Tony’s ex-girlfriend, Rumiko Fujikawa, jumps on a plane and returns to America and help Tony through his darkest hour… | |
| Iron Man #87 On the plane journey, Rumiko recalls the time Tony was about to propose to her but was interrupted when Clarence Ward was looking to talk business. Agitated, Tony told Ward to leave, but ended up not proposing. Now, Tony’s closest friends begin to doubt his sanity. Busily running diagnostics to make sure whatever magic whammy the Scarlet Witch put on him is out of his system, Tony is unaware of the destruction being caused in Iron Man’s name. Rumiko arrives at Stark’s home just as he leaves the chamber and witnesses the Iron Man impostor blasting her. Rumiko dies in Tony’s arms as ‘Iron Man’ turns his attention on Stark himself… 1st appearance: Clarence Ward | |
| Iron Man #88 ‘Iron Man’ assaults Tony Stark in his own home. Press helicopters arrive. Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan head over to a secret chamber at Stark Enterprises that’ll give them the ability to shut down all Starktech using a satellite signal. A military team with Iron Man armour upgrades are given the order to kill the last Iron Man standing. As the battle continues, the Iron Man impostor unmasks to reveal the messed up face of Clarence Ward… | |
| Iron Man #89 (pp.1-12) Ward used nano-bugs to steal an Iron Man suit and now he’ll use it to crush Tony Stark. Noticing the military standing by and doing nothing, Ward starts throwing their tanks at Tony. Stark defeats Ward, crushing his armour and shorting its circuits. The US Field Commander shoots Ward in the face. |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| Excalibur #9 (tie-in) Sitting at the Scarlet Witch’s bedside, Magneto recalls how small a role he played in his daughter’s life. Instead spent it fighting the X-Men and Avengers. He asks Karima Shapandar to find Professor X so he can help the Scarlet Witch, interrupting Xavier’s search for survivors. Meanwhile, the Magistrates are murdered by a mystery assailant who batters Dark Beast, but allows him to escape and warn the rest of Excalibur… | |
| Excalibur #10 (tie-in) Callisto and Karima head below Genosha where they learn the attacker is the Sugar Man. His creation, Rastus, rips off half of Calisto’s tentacles. Karima kills Rastus, whole Callisto then impales Sugar Man in the head. Xavier answers Magneto’s summons and finds the Master of Magnetism displaying a darker attitude again as he begs for help in saving his daughter’s life. | |
| Iron Man #89 (pp.12-14) A week later after the showdown with Ward, Tony Stark attends Rumiko Fujikawa’s funeral. Days after that, Tony erects a statue to commemorate Ant-Man and tells the press he can no longer be Iron Man. Over in Japan, Temugin (the son of the Mandarin and the mastermind behind Clarence Ward’s attack) plans his next move… | |
| Captain America #30 Batroc and his gang try to rob a crowd at a stadium, only to be defeated by Captain America. Cap and Diamondback go back to his place and get to know one another again before they’re kidnapped by the Serpent Society… | |
| Captain America #31 Cap and Diamondback break free of the Serpent Society, narrowly avoiding being sold to the highest-bidding super-villain. Meanwhile, Nick Fury captures the rogue SHIELD unit and learns about the deal they’ve made with the Red Skull. Cap heads home and Diamondback returns to her apartment where the Skull snaps her neck for her failure. That’s when Cap comes knocking on her door… 1st appearance: Sidewinder/Gregory Bryan | |
| Captain America #32 The Skull tackles Captain America one-on-one, overpowering him with his new armour and bringing the entire building down on them both. Diamondback emerges from the rubble, defeating the the Skull, holding him by the throat in time for Nick Fury to show up and put her on pause. ‘Diamondback’ was an LMD (Life Model Decoy) the whole time. The Diamondback LMD is taken away and the real Diamondback is reunited with Cap. | |
| Iron Man #89 (pp.15-22) Tony Stark erects a statue to commemorate Ant-Man and tells the press he can no longer be Iron Man. Over in Japan, Temugin – the son of the Mandarin and the real mastermind behind Clarence Ward’s attack – plans his next move… | |
| Fantastic Four #517 An alien threat tries to steal the island of Manhattan. With the Avengers disbanded, the Mayor of New York turns to the Fantastic Four for help. Mister Fantastic‘s recent attempt to take over Latveria caused the team some serious PR issues, to this is their moment to regain public trust… | |
| Fantastic Four #518 The Fantastic Four break into the giant alien craft and Mister Fantastic disables the craft’s ability to steal the island. But the rest of the team are captured by the aliens’ leader, Zius, who explains how he’s been protecting the universe by creating technology that will make inhabited planets invisible to the world-devouring Galactus. The only thing that could counter that tech and reveal the whereabout of these worlds is the power of the Invisible Woman. To save Manhattan and billions of lives across the universe, she agrees to sacrifice herself… | |
| Fantastic Four #519 Mister Fantastic blasts the Invisible Woman with a weapon that removes her powers. With that, Zius agrees to fix Manhattan and leave the planet. Mister Fantastic’s device actually switched the Invisible Woman’s powers with the Human Torch‘s. Before their powers can be switched back, Galactus arrives and grants the Torch the Power Cosmic, making him his newest Herald… | |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #15 When the mysterious Ana attacks New York and starts mentally manipulating the citizens, her presence alone gives Peter Parker nosebleeds. Nick Fury calls on Captain America to put Ana down. Cap soon eams up with Spider-Man, but Spidey goes against Cap’s wishes and tackles Ana directly. He’s surprised to find himself kissing her in front of TV cameras… 1st appearance: Queen/Ana, Homo Insectus | |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #16 Mary Jane Watson-Parker hears about Spider-Man kissing Ana. Captain America frees himself and Spider-Man of Ana’s webs, but soon face an army of mind-controlled New Yorkers again. Cap is left with no choice but to knock Ana off the side of a building to save innocent lives. After the battle, Captain America admits he’s impressed with Spidey’s tenacity. True identity revealed: Ana as Adrianna Soria |
| Must Reads | Title, Issue & Synopsis |
| ✔ | Thor #82 Since Loki’s attack on Asgard, Thor has been travelling the realm in search of survivors. Volstagg is alive, but malnourished. The other two members of the Warriors Three –Hogun and Fandral – are dead, along with many others. But the desperate Thunder God is soon reunited with his old friend Beta Ray Bill… |
| ✔ | Thor #83 Beta Ray Bill and Thor kill Fenris. Thor then leaves Bill to lead the remaining Asgardians while he takes a journey to gain the knowledge required to save what’s left of Asgard. He follows in the footsteps of his father, Odin, to gain wisdom, guided by the Odin-Force. Encouraged to go one step further than his father, Thor plucks out both of his own eyes and is able to see his past more clearly. But to understand everything, Thor must die… |
| ✔ | Thor #84 Thor hangs himself from Yggrassill the World Tree until he comes so close to death that Hela tries to claim him. But he’s protected by Odin’s spirit. Thor then confronts Asgards’ own gods, Those Who Sit Above in Shadow. Going against the cycle of death and rebirth that Ragnarok is revealed to be, Thor defies the shadowed gods and chooses to break the cycle. He returns to Asgard and defeats Mangog and Loki’s troll lackeys using Norse sigils until he confronts Loki himself. He pulls Loki’s head off and carries is with him so the trickster god can witness Asgard’s demise… |
| ✔ | Thor #85 The remaining Asgardians battle Surtur‘s forces. Thor encourages the creature to bring about Asgard’s end. He then returns Beta Ray Bill to deep space to spare his life before confronting the Fates and destroying the thread that keeps the cycle going. When Asgard dies, Thor dies with it. |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #17 In trouble with his wife for his televised kiss with Ana, Peter Parker agrees to attend a friend’s wedding with Mary Jane to smooth things over. Remaining inconspicuous might prove a problem when Peter sprouts hair where he never had hair before. Oh, and some extra eyes. Captain America and Nick Fury are busy trying to locate Ana, but Cap’s been holding information back… | |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #18 Ana – now calling herself The Queen – discovers a bomb under New York. Captain America explains to Fury that Ana is a mutant who could control insects. She was an early super-soldier experiment that went wrong. Purposely exposed to radiation along with her US Marine unit, Ana was driven insane. Meanwhile, the Queen fully activates Peter Parker’s transformation into a literal ‘spider-man’… | |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #19 The US Government created a bomb after the Cold War that would kill everything on the planet if the Russians won, apart from Americans who had been given the insect gene. The project was shut down. But now Ana’s back and she’s located the bomb. Spider-Man tries to fight the Queen but continues to mutate until he becomes a giant spider, fully under her control… | |
| Spectacular Spider-Man #20 Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Thunderbolt Ross and the X-Men are all called in to search New York for the bomb, but come up against the Queen’s mindless, insect-gene army. The giant-spider breaks free of the Queen’s control and dies, but Peter Parker rips out of its corpse and discovers he now has biological webbing and an ability to communicate with insects. He disarms the bomb which somehow makes Ana blow up. Complete with new powers, Spider-Man is reunited with his wife… with even more explaining to do! | |
| ✔ | Avengers Finale #1 Edwin Jarvis and a handful of Avengers meet in the ruins of Avengers Mansion to discuss the team’s future. Tony Stark is no longer unable to fund the Avengers. Quicksilver apologises for his sister’s actions, then leaves quickly. The team agree that it’s time for the Avengers to call it quits, but not before recounting some of their defining moments (including THE KREE-SKRULL WAR, the wedding at the end of THE CELESTIAL MADONNA SAGA, THE KORVAC SAGA, THE FINAL THREAT, UNDER SIEGE and ULTRON UNLIMITED). After acknowledging the sacrifices made by their deceased friends, the Avengers publicly announce it’s all over… |
| New Thunderbolts #1 (tie-in) Having served his sentence for past crimes as the Beetle, Abe Jenkins (the former hero Mach-I, Mach-II and Mach-III) makes a public appeal to former bad guys wanting to reform to join his new Thunderbolts line-up. A reluctant Songbird returns with Erik Josten (formerly Atlas) along with new member the Blizzard. Abe donning his new Mach-IV armour to lead the team. When Namor‘s son, Llyron, attacks the surface world with Fathom Five team, the new T-Bolts have to accept help from Genis-Vell, aka Captain Marvel, in order to drive them back into the ocean. Josten secretly uses his ionic growth powers to beat up Captain Marvel while no one’s looking and toss him into the sea. Later, Abe meets up with Baron Wolfgang von Strucker – the Thunderbolts’ secret backer… 1st appearance: Bloodtide, Merovech Investment Group New identity: Mach-III/Abner Jenkins as Mach-IV |
See how this event fits into the wider Marvel Universe with these reading orders:
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| Captain America and the Falcon #8-14 (2004-2005) Captain America discovers his hallucinations may have been caused by Jimmy Westbrook; the MODOK-controlled Damocles Rivas is killed; Anti-Cap is killed by a train. | ||
| Fantastic Four #520-524 (2005) Galactus takes the Human Torch into space to use his new Herald powers to locate inhabited worlds; the Fantastic Four free the Torch and transform Galactus into human form; the FF teach Galactus about humanity; the team get their powers back to normal. | ||
| ✔ | She-Hulk #11-12 (2005) Jennifer Walters struggles to remain as She-Hulk due to her guilt over killing the Vision; Hank Pym names the new prison for villains in honour Ant-Man (Scott Lang) as the Lang Memorial Penitentiary. | |
| Captain America #1-15 (2005) Bucky Barnes returns as the WInter Soldier; the Red Skull breaks out of SHIELD custody, but is immediately assassinated by the WInter Soldier, though he finds another way to live on. | ||
| New Thunderbolts #2 (2005) Joystick and Speed Demon join the new Thunderbolts; Vantage rejoins. | ||
| New Thunderbolts #4 (2005) Radioactive Man joins the Thunderbolts. | ENEMY OF THE STATE | |
| ✔ | Young Avengers #1-6 (2005) First appearance of Asgardian (Billy Kaplan), a member of the newly-formed Young Avengers; a flashback reveals how team leader Iron Lad used the Vision’s old operating system to locate the next generation of Avengers; Ant-Man’s daughter, Cassie Lang, visits the site where her father died; Cassie reveals she secretly took Pym Particles over the years and exhibits size-changing powers; Cassie joins the Young Avengers as Stature; a new Vision is created from the old Vision’s operating system merged with Iron Lad’s armour; Asgardian becomes Wiccan. | |
| New Thunderbolts #8 (2005) Photon (Genis-Vell) clashes with Photon (Monica Rambeau) for the second time; Rambeau changes her codename to Pulsar. | ||
| ✔ | New Avengers #1-6 (2005) Captain America and Iron Man form a team of New Avengers, adding Spider-Man as a member as well as other heroes who haven’t previously been Avengers; ‘Edwin Jarvis‘ first appears. | BREAKOUT |
| ✔ | Young Avengers #10-12 (2006) First appearance of Thomas “Tommy” Shepherd; Tommy joins the Young Avengers as Speed. | |
| ✔ | Excalibur #13-14 (2005) Magneto and Professor X fail in their efforts to help the Scarlet Witch; Excalibur unofficially disband. House of M #1-8 (2005) The Scarlet Witch alters reality on a global scale, transforming the world so that mutants are superior; Hawkeye is resurrected in the altered reality; Quicksilver is revealed to be behind the transformation, attempting to fix his father’s mistakes; the Scarlet Witch restores reality but massively reduces the mutant population – an event which is later dubbed ‘M-Day’. | HOUSE OF M |
| New Excalibur #4 (2006) Having returned to England, Captain Britain becomes Lionheart. | ||
| ✔ | New Avengers #15 (2006) The new Avengers are publicly introduced; Warbird becomes Ms Marvel again. | |
| Son of M #5-6 (2006) Most of the former Excalibur members are revealed to have lost their powers on M-Day; Quicksilver tries to restore their abilities using stolen Terrigen Crystals with disastrous consequences; Callisto’s human arms are revealed to have returned when she was depowered. | DECIMATION | |
| Marvel Team-Up #22 (2006) The Diamondback LMD is dismantled by the Iron Maniac and used for parts. | ||
| New Thunderbolts #15-17 (2006) The Fixer and Baron Zemo rejoin the new Thunderbolts; Nighthawk also joins the team. Thunderbolts #100 (2006) Smuggler and Swordsman join the Thunderbolts; Photon is dispersed throughout various realities when he loses control of his powers | RIGHT OF POWER | |
| Amazing Spider-Man #527 (2006) Spider-Man gains even more spider-related powers. | THE OTHER: EVOLVE OR DIE | |
| ✔ | What If? featuring Avengers Disassembled #1 (2006) On Earth-22795, Captain America helps the Scarlet Witch end the Avengers. | |
| ✔ | Fantastic Four #536-537 (2006) Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, returns to Earth fully restored; Thor’s former human identity Dr Donald Blake returns. | THE ROAD TO CIVIL WAR |
| ✔ | New Avengers #21 (2006) The New Avengers are (unofficially) disassembled when they’re divided over the Superhuman Registration Act. Civil War: Front Line #1 (2006) Tony Stark publicly reveals he’s Iron Man again. | CIVIL WAR |
| Thunderbolts #103 (2006) Baron Zemo begins the formation of a Thunderbolts Army with multiple villains. | CIVIL WAR | |
| ✔ | Civil War #3-4 (2006) ‘Thor‘ seemingly returns and kills Goliath, only to be revealed as a clone of the true Thor created by Tony Stark, Mister Fantastic and ‘Hank Pym’ (secretly a Skrull). | CIVIL WAR |
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| Iron Man #14 (2007) Happy Hogan dies trying to protect Tony Stark from the Spymaster. | CIVIL WAR | |
| Thunderbolts #109 (2007) Just as Moonstone rejoins the Thunderbolts, everyone except Songbird and Swordsman leave the team as they’re absorbed into the Initiative. | ||
| ✔ | Civil War #7 (2007) Ms Marvel, Wasp and Wonder Man rejoin the Avengers. | CIVIL WAR |
| ✔ | New Avengers #26 (2007) Hawkeye is revealed to be alive, having been resurrected by the Scarlet Witch after M-Day. | |
| ✔ | Thor #1-4 (2007) Donald Blake summons Thor and the two become one being again; Thor recreates Asgard in Broxton, Oklahoma; Thor begins his search for the other reborn gods of Asgard; Thor confronts Iron Man over the creation of the Thor clone; Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg return. | |
| X-Men #200 (2007) Sugar Man is revealed to have survived Callisto’s attack. | ||
| Amazing Spider-Man #545 (2007) Spider-Man loses all of his new powers, including the organic webbing and connection with insects. | ONE MORE DAY | |
| ✔ | Young Avengers Presents #3 (2008) Wiccan and Speed try and fail prove the Scarlet Witch is their mother. | |
| ✔ | Thor #5 (2008) Baldur, Enchantress, Hela, Loki and Sif return; Sif is reborn in the body of an old woman with a terminal illness; Loki returns in a female form which is later revealed to be Sif’s body. | |
| ✔ | Thor #7-8 (2008) Odin is discovered in the ‘between world’ where he chooses to remain, keeping Surtur from returning. | |
| Secret Invasion: Thor #1 (2008) Thor and Beta Ray Bill are reunited. Mighty Avengers #15 (2008) The details of the Wasp and Hank Pym’s disastrous trip to England is revealed; Pym us revealed to have been replaced by a Skrull. Secret Invasion #8 (2009) Mockingbird is revealed to be alive. | SECRET INVASION | |
| Avengers: The Initiative #21-24 (2009) The Avengers Initiative programme disassembles when Norman Osborn takes over. Mighty Avengers #24 (2009) Quicksilver rejoins the Avengers. | DARK REIGN | |
| ✔ | Thor #602 (2009) Sif and Loki are restored to their true forms. | FULL CIRCLE |
| Marvels Project #1 (2009) The real Two-Gun Kid‘s death is revealed. | ||
| Dark Reign – The List: X-Men #1 (2009) The real Marrina briefly returns. | DARK REIGN DARK REIGN – THE LIST NATION X | |
| Incredible Hercules #129 (2009) Jack of Hearts next appears in the afterlife, gambling for a chance to be resurrected. | ||
| Mighty Avengers #33 (2010) The Vision and Iron Lad are briefly separated by the power of the Cosmic Cube. | ||
| ✔ | Thor #610 (2010) The Thor clone – now dubbed ‘Ragnarok‘ – us destroyed by Thor. | SIEGE |
| Avengers #1 (2010) A more traditional Avengers line-up forms with Thor as a member. | THE HEROIC AGE | |
| Avengers Academy #1-2 (2010) Hank Pym returns to the Avengers to train the next generation; Quicksilver uses another Arsenal robot to test the Avengers Academy kids. | THE HEROIC AGE | |
| Secret Avengers #1 (2010) Beast rejoins the Avengers. | THE HEROIC AGE SECRET HISTORIES | |
| Chaos War: Dead Avengers #1-3 (2011) The Vision and the real Doctor Druid are briefly resurrected. | CHAOS WAR | |
| Thor #618 (2011) Odin returns to the living. |
| Must Reads | Issue & Fallout | Event/ Crossover |
| ✔ | Marvel Zombies Supreme #2 (2011) Jack of Hearts is resurrected by scientists at Project PEGASUS to combat a zombie invasion. | |
| ✔ | Amazing Spider-Man #666-672 (2011) The Queen returns, becoming the Spider-Queen, transforming Captain America into an arachnid Spider-King and turning the inhabitants of Manhattan into giant spiders; Spider-Queen is killed by Kaine. | SPIDER-ISLAND |
| ✔ | Avengers #19 (2012) Tony Stark rebuilds the Vision who then rejoins the Avengers. | SHATTERED HEROES |
| ✔ | Avengers #24.1 (2012) Vision confronts Magneto, demanding to see the Scarlet Witch. | |
| ✔ | Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #1-9 (2010-2011) Wiccan and Speed successfully locate the Scarlet Witch; the Scarlet Witch regains her powers; Ant-Man is pulled from the moment Jack of Hearts exploded and brought to the present day; Wiccan and Speed are confirmed as the Scarlet Witch’s resurrected sons; Ant-Man loses his daughter when Doctor Doom kills Stature; the new Vision is destroyed by Iron Lad; the moment/timeline when Ant-Man died technically becomes an alternate timeline (Earth-61108) when he’s plucked from that moment. | THE CHILDREN’S CRUSADE |
| ✔ | Avengers vs X-Men #12 (2012) The Scarlet Witch is instrumental is saving Earth from the Phoenix Force. | AVX: AVENGERS VS X-MEN |
| Amazing Spider-Man #692-693 (2012) The Jackal creates clones of the Spider-Queen, dubbing them the Spider-Princesses; the clones are destroyed. | ALPHA | |
| ✔ | Uncanny Avengers #4 (2013) The Scarlet Witch officially rejoins the Avengers. | MARVEL NOW! |
| ✔ | Avengers Assemble Annual #1 (2013) The Vision expresses his anger at the Scarlet Witch over his death at her hands; Vision meets his son, Wiccan. | |
| Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #25-30 (2013) On Earth-1610, the Ultimates (that reality’s version of the Avengers) disassemble when someone starts gathering the Infinity Gems. | ||
| Axis #7 (2015) The Scarlet Witch’s magic reveals that she and Quicksilver are not Magneto’s children and aren’t even related to him in any way. | AXIS | |
| Uncanny Avengers #4 (2015) It’s revealed that the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver gained their powers from experiments performed by the High Evolutionary (the Evolutionary covered his tracks so that any scans would classify the twins as mutants). | AVENGERS NOW! | |
| ✔ | Scarlet Witch #12-14 (2017) Agatha Harkness is inadvertently resurrected again by the Scarlet Witch’s mother, Natalya Maximoff. | |
| Guardians of the Galaxy #14-17 (2014) The Guardians of the Galaxy go through their own ‘Disassembled’ arc. | ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! GUARDIANS DISASSEMBLED | |
| Uncanny X-Men #1-10 (2019) The X-Men go through their own ‘Disassembled’ arc. |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| Avengers Disassembled OHC | Avengers #500-503 Avengers Finale #1 |
| Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man, Thor & Captain America | Captain America #29-32 Captain America and the Falcon #5-7 Iron Man #84-89 Thor #80-85 |
| Avengers Disassembled: Captain America | Captain America #29-32 Captain America and the Falcon #5-7 |
| Avengers Disassembled: Iron Man | Iron Man #84-89 |
| Avengers Disassembled: Thor | Thor #80-85 |
| Excalibur vol.2: Saturday Night Fever | Excalibur #5-10 |
| Spectacular Spider-Man vol.4: Disassembled | Spectacular Spider-Man #15-20 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis – The Complete Collection vol.1 New Avengers Omnibus vol.1 | Avengers #500-503 Avengers Finale #1 |
| Captain America: Marvel Knights vol.2 | Captain America #29-32 |
| Captain America and the Falcon by Christopher Priest – The Complete Collection | Captain America and the Falcon #5-7 |
| Thor: Heroes Return Omnibus vol.2 Thor: Ragnarok | Thor #80-85 |
| Fantastic Four vol.5: Disassembled Fantastic Four vol.3 HC Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo Omnibus Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo: Ultimate Collection vol.4 | Fantastic Four #517-519 |
| New Thunderbolts vol.1: One Step Forward | New Thunderbolts #1 |
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