Marvel Action: Avengers, Vol. 1: The New Danger

Marvel Action: Avengers #1

by Matthew K. Manning, Jon Sommariva (Illustrations)

A new era of all-out Avengers action begins!

A new team is formed to battle a mega-sized threat that is weirder and wilder than any the superheroes have met before! The New Danger will be the perfect opportunity for middle grade readers, and fans of all ages, to experience the thrilling adventures of Avengers comics for the first time!

Collects issues #1-3.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Superheroes, Comic Book, Young Adult

72 pages, Paperback

First published April 23, 2019

About the author

Matthew K. Manning is the author of over eighty books and dozens of comic books. He has written books for Scholastic, Disney Press, Abrams, Amazon, Capstone, DK Publishing, Insight Editions, Andrews/McMeel, and Running Press, dividing his time between writing original chapter book series and coffee table books. His chapter books include the six-book series Xander and the Rainbow-Barfing Unicorns (Capstone), the four-book Drone Academy series (Capstone), Backstories: Batman and Backstories: Batgirl (Scholastic), and Artemis Fowl: How to be a LEPrecon (Disney Press), released in both paperback and on Audible. Many of his books have reached best-seller status on Amazon, including DC Comics: Anatomy of a Metahuman, DC Comics Encyclopedia, and Batman: A Visual History. In addition, Manning specializes in comic books, writing for the titles Beware the Batman, Teen Titans Go!, The Batman Strikes!, Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, Justice League Adventures, Scooby-Doo, and Looney Tunes for DC Comics, Marvel Action: Avengers for IDW/Marvel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Amazing Adventures and TMNT: New Animated Adventures for IDW, and the top-selling Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures for DC/IDW, nominated by the Diamond Gem Awards for comic of the year. Manning’s work has received acclaim in Entertainment Weekly, People Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Publisher’s Weekly, and The Washington Times. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife Dorothy and his daughters Lillian and Gwendolyn.

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Reviews

[Sarah Ryder · Rating 3 out of 5]

So after loving The Living Nightmare (which is actually book 4 of this series that they need to put numbers on the spine for!!!) I decide to go back to the beginning and get the whole adventure in order.

But…all right, let’s just get this out of the way, okay? I hate the art style. Plain and simple, hate it. It looks like melting graffiti and I’m not a fan and will now take back what I said about The Living Nightmare’s graphics being just okay for the most part because it is WAAY better than this. Unfortunately I think the next two volumes (still don’t know of comics are called that) have the same style, so I’m just gonna brace myself for it, haha.

Now with THAT out of the way the story was pretty good! It mostly focuses on Tony which is fine though he’s not my favorite Avenger like never so I was mostly here for everyone else and the plot, haha. I love the sprinkles of humor throughout, especially when some characters were introduced like Black Widow is “Expert of pretty much everything” and Captain America’s really cracked me up with “Pretty sure the property damage will NOT be kept to a minimum”, not to mention a group of superpowered villains were labeled as “What you get when you mix cosmic rays with a less-then-Fantastic-Four.” Just little things like that kept me chuckling throughout, and as always I adored Cap in this but that’s nothing new, lol.

The cover is extremely misleading though as Hulk and Hawkeye are not involved in this one and are replaced with Black Panther and Captain Marvel, who is also not a favorite character of mine but at least she’s not insufferable like her MCU version.

Overall I enjoyed this and look forward to picking up the next one!


‼️Content‼️

Violence: fighting with weapons, superpowers, and hand to hand (PG)

Other: superheroes, supervillains, and superpowers; a character is kidnapped and mind controlled; a bomb is strapped to a character’s neck; a magical stone; a character is called a god

[Smassing Culture · Rating 4 out of 5]

Κείμενο στο Smassing Culture

Μια πόρτα στα υπερηρωικά comics

Η αλήθεια είναι ότι οι υπερήρωρες και η εικονογραφία τους δε χρειάζεται συστάσεις στη νέα γενιά. Πάνω από 10 χρόνια τώρα οι ταινίες με αυτούς αποτελούν τον βασικό βραχίονα της εμπορικής κινηματογραφικής παραγωγής του Hollywood και οι ήρωες αυτοί έχουν γίνει πασίγνωστοι σε κάθε γωνιά της γης. Είναι δύσκολο να το φανταστούμε οι μεγαλύτεροι, όμως πλέον υπάρχουν παιδιά που γεννήθηκαν σε έναν κόσμο όπου πάντα ο Iron Man ήταν ο Robert Downey Jr, που δεν έχουν ζήσει ποτέ χωρίς μία ή δύο Marvel ταινίες τον χρόνο. Ωστόσο, όπως είναι εύκολο να διαπιστώσει κάποιος, αυτή η φήμη δεν απλώνεται πολλές φορές στην αρχική καταγωγή των ηρώων αυτών, τα καρέ της 9ης Τέχνης. Η σειρά Marvel Action Avengers, των Mathew K. Manning και του εικονογράφου Jon Sommariva (οι πρώτοι δύο τόμοι της οποίας, To Nέος Κινδυνος και Μαγική Απειλή κυκλοφορούν από τις εκδόσεις Anubis στα ελληνικά, σε μετάφραση του Χρήστου Κανελλόπουλου) έρχονται να το αλλάξουν αυτό. Ή τουλάχιστον να προσπαθήσουν με τις καλύτερες προθέσεις.

Ουσιαστική η σειρά αυτή αποτελεί μια προσπάθεια επαναγνωριμίας ενός νέου κοινού, το οποίο όμως έχει ήδη μια πολύ συγκεκριμένη εικόνα για το πώς πρέπει να μοιάζουν και να φέρονται αυτοί οι ήρωες, με τα ίδια τα comics. Έτσι λοιπόν, το σενάριο και οι χαρακτήρες που χτίζει ο Manning είναι αναγνωρίσιμοι αλλά ταυτόχρονα υπερβολικά εστιασμένοι και, ίσως θα έλεγε κανείς, ανά στιγμές, επιφανειακοί. Αυτό όμως δεν τους στερεί την ταυτότητα τους ή την ευκαιρία να εξελιχθούν. Απλά είναι πιο δύσκολο αυτό να γίνει όταν η εξέλιξη αυτή πρέπει να ακολουθεί ένα εξωτερικά επιβαλόμενο μοτίβο.


Η ίδια η ιστορία εκτυλίσσεται γρήγορα και είναι, προφανώς προσηλωμένη στις γρήγορες και εντυπωσιακές σκηνές μάχης. Εκεί είναι που λάμπει και το εύρωστο, θαρραλέο και οριακά wholesome σχέδιο του Sommariva. Eπιπλέον, στο δικό του σχέδιο βασίζεται και τελικά η όποια εξέλιξη έχουν οι χαρακτήρες σε αυτές τις σύντομες, εισαγωγικού τύπου περιπέτειες, καθώς η ακούραστη πένα του καταφέρνει και σμιλεύει τα πρόσωπά τους με εξαιρετική ακρίβεια, αποκρυσταλώντας τον φόβο, την ανησυχία αλλά και την ωριμότητα που πρέπει να έχουν (ή να προσπαθήσουν να αποκτήσουν).


Η ίδια η σειρά είναι προφανώς εστιασμένη στα παιδιά και αυτό φαίνεται σε κάθε σελίδα της. Από την απλή, γραμμική (αλλά όχι πρόχειρη και παιδιάστική) πλοκή, μέχρι τις καθαρές γραμμές στο σχέδιο. Ωστόσο και οι δύο δημιουργοί παίρνουν το κοινό τους στα σοβαρά και πραγματικά προσπαθούν να δώσουν μια φρέσκια, πιο δεμένη και ολοκληρωμένη εικόνα των Avengers από το χάος των παραδοσιακών comics, τα οποία με τα συνεχόμενα events, tie ins, στα οποία είναι εύκολο να χαθεί ένας ενήλικος, πόσο μάλλον ένα πιο άμεσο και προσηλωμένο στο παρόν παιδικό μυαλό. Ωστόσο αυτό δε σημαίνει ότι η σειρά είναι ακατάλληλη για ενήλικες νέους αναγνώστες. Όπως κάθε καλογραμμένο παιδικό έργο, εννοείται πως είναι προσεγγίσιμο και από μεγαλύτερους, οι οποίοι ίσως ενδιαφερθούν περισσότερο για το πώς ξεδιπλώνονται οι χαρακτήρες παρά για το (αντικειμενικά) αστείο όνομα του Φιν Φανγκ Φουμ.

Επομένως ναι, οι Marvel Action Avengers είναι μια καλή επιλογή εάν θέλετε να γνωριστούν τα παιδιά σας (ή το παιδί μέσα σας) ξανά με τους comics Αvengers και μια καλή ευκαιρία να γνωρίσουν και τον υπόλοιπο πολύπλοκο κόσμο τους, ο οποίος δεν είχε (ακόμα) την ευκαιρία να αποκτήσει κινηματογραφική απεικόνιση.

[Becky B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tony Stark is enjoying a lovely dinner with Pepper when someone slaps a device on the back of his neck just as an attack starts. Suddenly the Avengers find Iron Man is fighting against them. Has someone stolen the suit or have they done something to Tony? And how do they fix this?

A nice little adventure with the Avengers. (Iron Man, Pepper, Black Panther, Capt. America, Thor, Black Widow, and Captain Marvel...whoever did the cover didn't read the book). Mind games with Tony is never a good idea. There's a little bit of the plot that is unresolved and begs you to hunt down the next book in the series to see what the bad guys are up to. The language and violence are tame enough in this that it feels aimed at anyone from middle grade on up (which is not always the case with Marvel superhero graphic novels), and will make my middle graders super excited to have more Marvel on the shelves. I need to hunt down book 2 in this series. I picked up this one and book 3 without realizing it; they aren't numbered on the spine. Recommended to Marvel fans, especially the movie fans as this feels like it could be an adventure between movies.

Notes on content: No language issues. No sexual content. Some mild violence (no one is even seriously hurt).

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Como eu já disse no review de Marvel Action: Homem-Aranha, a linha da Marvel voltada para leitores, digamos, juniores, fica bastante aquém da linha da DC Comics. Isso porque parece que a Marvel tem medo de quebrar as fórmulas estabelecidas para os comic books de super-heróis regulares. Este Marvel Action: Vingadores segue uma linha bem semelhante às histórias que são publicadas regularmente pela Marvel para leitores também regulares, que variam da idade adolescente a vetustos senhores. Contudo, se comparado com o conteúdo de Marvel Action: Homem-Aranha, as histórias de Marvel Action: Vingadores são beeem mais divertidas (e só). Como na revista aracnídea, temos dois arcos de história. O primeiro, Engenheiro de Ferro, mostra os Vingadores enfrentando uma versão controlada pela IMA do Homem de Ferro. No segundo arco O Rubi Egresso, os Vingadores enfrentam o Conde Nefária, enquanto Thor e Capitã Marvel ficam presos em uma dimensão mística desconhecida. Os desenhos são mais uniformes que na edição do Homem-Aranha e também são mais bonitos. Então se está em dúvida entre uma das duas, a escolha é Vingadores.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it. It was pretty action packed and there was some witty banter. Not much going on character development wise but it is the first in the series...

I read this to try to determine what superhero comics/graphic novels I could put in my 6th-12th grade school library. Trying to find ones that don't objectify women (which is pretty hard to find).

This fits the bill but it really is more of a children's comic book. Nothing wrong for adults in here but there isn't too much going on plot/character-wise either.

Content Notes:

Sex? No and costumes are done in a way that don't sexualize women. HOORAY!

Language/Profanity? No

Violence? Yes, but the cartoony sort

Religious elements? None unless you count that Thor is a god?

LGBTQ rep? Not specified

Could a conservative Christian school library add this in?

Yes, absolutely.

[Jakob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moving this review from Issue One, didn't realize it wasn't full collected edition
I was expecting this to be another one of those graphic novels that was just telling old stories featuring nothing new. I was very surprised because it wasn't. It was all-new, all-awesome, and everything felt like a trip back in marvel time. With a good mixed team (Iron Man, Black Widow, Captain America, Thor, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel) and a strong storyline, it was really amazing. My only complaint is that it was more like an Iron Man story for a lot of it, with the other avengers sort of in the sidelines. Still, this was just the first three issues. I expect they'll give other characters a bit more time in #2

[Cale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although written for younger audiences, this volume manages to mostly get the look and feel of the Avengers right, and provide a story with a bit more depth than you would expect -with mind-wiping, AIM, and Fin Fang Foom all playing major roles. There's some brief humor, and the wider team has glorified cameos, but this mainly focuses on Stark, with Natasha probably earning second billing.
The art style works for the most part, keeping everything pretty light even when dealing with explosions and big fights. It's not a super deep story, but it's a fun enough diversion that younger audiences would probably enjoy.

[Lynsy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it well enough. It's hard to judge as it's the first volume and sets up a bigger story arc without a clear resolution as of yet. I think this would be a good way to introduce kids to Marvel comics if they already like the movies. The characters are introduced pretty well, and the dialogue's all right. The artwork is eye-catching, but my poor eyes were struggling with the small font of the dialogue.

[Art · Rating 3 out of 5]

This looks like something I would give to my seventh graders when I taught that level. It had some depth, but not a lot. And the strong female characters did not pass the Bechdel test. Not sure how I feel about that. It definitely looks like middle grade level boys were the target for this. It was not a bad story, but not what I love in an adult level comic.

[Atlantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

My son picked this out for his birthday and it was suggested by the comic book store for his age-range. There are plenty of action scenes but no real gore. The artwork is eye-catching and in my opinion more appealing than the dialogue. (LOL)

[Wojtek Breitenbach · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fajna rzecz dla młodszych czytelników wchodzących w komiksowy świat Marvela. Dla starszych czytelników i osób znających dobrze świat Marvela raczej nic specjalnego. Mimo wszystko komiks całkiem szybko i przyjemnie się czyta

[Louise Goldsmith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Short

It's so short and it's not so good as the other comics such as spider teen with spider gwen , black solder and the original sport man

[Ellie Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

56/100

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yepp still obsessed with marvel. Quick but amazing comic book!!

[Iván Pedro · Rating 2 out of 5]

Flojísima historia. Espero que remonte...

[sennedeszcze · Rating 3 out of 5]

dosyć słaby :(
ale kocham komiksy więc miło się czytało

[Blusska · Rating 5 out of 5]

kocham

[Gabriela Romanova · Rating 4 out of 5]

To jest 1 część o czym nie wiedziałam więc muszę kupić 2 część a tak pozatym to 3,75/5⭐️

[Basia⭐]

Zostałam zmuszona przez brata do przeczytania, ale mimo wszystko przyjemnie się to czyta
Nie będę dawała oceny bo ciężko powiedzieć

[Anna Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read the first 10 pages with Joseph on 19 Feb 2025.

A.I.M. has taken over Tony Stark and the Iron Man suit using mind control.

[Ilva Malniece · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5⭐️

[Maria · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5

[Morly Nguyen · Rating 5 out of 5]

cooè

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este es el tipo de cómics que debería arropar el género de superhéroes.

La historia es sencilla y al punto. Tu conoces a estos personajes así que no hay que dar mucho trasfondo para que el relato funcione. Es una trama sencilla pero efectiva gracias a su excelente ejecución. Pero como siempre, algunas observaciones. Los personajes se sentían más como las interpretaciones de las películas que de los cómics.

Algunas apariciones estuvieron de más, como la capitana Marvel y Pantera Negra. Siento que sin ellos la trama hubiera funcionado igual de bien. Thor no habla en el viejo inglés de Shakespeare, y hablando de ello, la rotulación es muy básica. Tanto que no se molestaron globos de diálogo especiales, como la voz robótica de Iron Man o la topografía especial de Thor, y me hubiera gustado que Fin Fang Foom tuviera un globo de diálogo especial para mostrar lo poderosa que es su voz, ya que él es un gigante.

El dibujo es muy bueno, las escenas de acción estaban bien coreografiadas. Los rostros de los personajes, eran bien reconocibles. El estilo de este dibujante es muy versátil, es lo que quiero decir. El uso de colores primarios le da una simplicidad de antaño, pero todo funciona para beneficio de la historia.

[siemanatalia jestem · Rating 1 out of 5]

okropne. to jest chyba dla dzieci. w sensie ja to oceniam tylko dla tego ze jestem za stara na to i pewnie spodobalo by sie to jakiemus chlopcu co ma 6 lat wiec bierz to pod uwage ze nie jestem chlopcem co ma 6 lat. cringuje as fuck ale to pewnie dla tego ze czytam to po polsku i nie mam 6 lat. 3/10. przeczytalam to w 15 minut. 60 stron.