1st appearance of The Broker, a slave trader and owner

Character appeared in the film The Guardians of the Galaxy, played by actor Christopher Fairbank

Origin of Exodus

1st appearance of Argos the Hunter, a Deviant who wields a cosmic lance

1st appearance of King Bedlam

1st appearance of Armageddon Man, has the ability to summon natural disasters

Preview of Young Avengers, sketches

Cover art featuring the Young Avengers, distributed prior to the publication of Young Avengers #1 (2005)

1st team appearance of the Young Avengers: Kate Bishop, Patriot, Asgardian aka Wiccan, Hulkling, and Iron Lad, who is later revealed to be a young variant of Kang

[October 2022 - Hulkling and Wiccan aka Billy Kaplan, son of Scarlet Witch are rumored to appear in the Agatha TV series / Wiccan likely to be portrayed by Joe Locke (Heartstopper) / New casting of Miles Gutierrez-Riley speculated to be in the role of Hulkling]

Reprint of Young Avengers #1, distributed with the 2005 Marvel Legends Young Avengers action figure boxed set

'Not For Resale' printed in lower right corner

1st team appearance of the Young Avengers: Kate Bishop, Patriot, Iron Lad, Asgardian, Hulkling

Iron Lad revealed to be a variant of Kang

285 copies of the Wizard World Los Angeles 2005 exclusive sketch cover by Jim Cheung were encapsulated by CGC at Wizard World Philadelphia for the Wizard First program

Mint condition copies were chosen by CGC, given a unique label and graded 9.5

Since the release of this exclusive, some collector’s have cracked their slabs and resubmitted to CGC receiving 9.8s

Variant cover art by Jim Cheung

Directors Cut partial sketch cover by Jim Cheung

Includes 25 pages of additional material

Copies ordered by retailers: 18,550

Variant sketch cover art by Jim Cheung

Wizard World Los Angeles 2005 exclusive

2nd appearance of the Young Avengers

Cassie Lang discovers she has super-powers

Origin of Iron Lad, later revealed to be Kang the Conqueror

Cover art featuring Kang

1st appearance of the third Vision, formerly Iron Lad who is destined to become Kang the Conqueror

1st partial cover appearance of Kate Bishop

1st appearance of Cassie Lang as Stature

Debut of Kate Bishop's Hawkeye costume

[October 2020 - the actress cast as Cassie Lang, Kathryn Newton posts on her Twitter page with the hashtag #stature]

1st cover appearance of Kate Bishop in Hawkeye costume

1st appearance of Tommy Shepherd as a young man, son of Scarlet Witch, becomes Speed in Young Avengers #12

First time Kate Bishop is referred to as Hawkeye by Jessica Jones, then later in a note from Captain America

Tommy Shepherd becomes Speed

First limited series featuring the Illuminati

The Illuminati take control of the Infinity Gauntlet

60-page one-shot that reprints New Avengers: Illuminati #1 and #2 (2007)

1st appearance of Komodo, a girl who experimented with Dr. Connors' Lizard serum

1st appearance of Trauma, a shapeshifter who can sense what people fear

1st appearance of Hardball

1st appearance of Cloud 9

1st appearance of Tactigon, an Omega Level alien weapon

1st appearance of The Gauntlet, drill instructor for The Initiative

28-page mini-comic that reprints New Avengers: Illuminati #1 (2007)

Distributed with Marvel animated DVD release, identified by 'Not For Resale'

Co-published by Marvel and IDW

Crossover of the Avengers and Transformers versus Dr. Doom and the Decepticons

1st official appearance of a Super Skrull with the powers of the Illuminati - first appeared disguised as Black Bolt in World War Hulk #1

[September 2022 - Diamond Select announced a pre-order for Super Skrull beginning Sept 16 - see additional image]

Story revisits plot points from West Coast Avengers where Billy and Tommy were revealed to be fragments of Mephisto's soul that were recovered by Master Pandemonium

Variant second printing, wraparound cover art by Jim Cheung

Origin of Stature

First meeting of Clint Barton and Kate Bishop

Barton approves of Kate Bishop using the codename Hawkeye

1st unofficial team appearance of the High Council of Hydra: Baron Strucker, Madame Hydra, Viper, Gorgon, Kraken (1st), The Hive (1st)

1st appearance of Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine as Madame Hydra

1st appearance of Manifold, has the ability to create teleportation portals

Introduction of the Godkiller sword, the flawed counterpart to the perfect Grasscutter blade

Nine-issue series that follows Wiccan (Billy) and Speed (Tommy) search for the Scarlet Witch who had been missing since the events of House of M

[March 2022 - rumor that unannounced MCU projects could borrow heavily from this story arc]

Second printing

Copies ordered by retailers: 3,126

Variant cover art by Jim Cheung, partial sketch

Third printing, as indicated in the upper left-hand corner

There is also a nearly identical black and white sketch variant that does not have a bar code

Variant sketch cover art by Jim Cheung

Marvel Retailer Resource Center exclusive - given to registered comic shops

Similar to the third printing but this variant has no bar code, and 'Variant Edition' printed in the upper-left corner

Variant cover art by Jim Cheung, partial sketch

Convention exclusive

Variant second printing cover art by Jim Cheung

Copies ordered by retailers: 2,700

Reprint of Avengers The Children's Crusade issues #1 - #3

Identical to the cover of Avengers Children Crusade #1 except for the subtitle printed at the bottom that reads: Search For The Scarlet Witch and Must Have printed in the upper left corner

1st team appearance of the Leviathan Horde, soldiers of Leviathan

1st appearance of Magadan, leader of Leviathan

Cover art by Jim Cheung featuring Dr. Doom and the Scarlet Witch

Young Avengers Hulkling and Wiccan first kiss

The cause of controversy in September 2019 after the mayor of Rio de Janeiro called for all copies of the TPB to be collected and destroyed

2nd appearance of Nova, Sam Alexander

First meeting of Peter Parker and Miles Morales, briefly

Second printing

Miles and Parker are wearing masks unlike the first printing

First battle of Peter Parker vs Miles Morales

1st appearance of Corvus Glaive of the Black Order aka Cull Obsidian, an elite mercenary squadron under the command of Thanos

1st team appearance of the Outriders, an army engineered to serve Thanos