Avengers (comics) in other 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 (though these last two do not actually appear). Iron Man and the Wasp are active members, with the mutant siblings and Thor mentioned as past Avengers. The titular "Earth-Wrecker" is one Karzz the Conqueror, an alien who travels back in time in order to destroy the earth (with a comet), so that humanity will be unable to thwart his future conquest of the galaxy. 
* The team was also featured in the Pocket Books line of Marvel-based paperback novels of the late 1970s. Jim Shooter's short story "This Evil Undying" (1979) appeared as one-fourth of an anthology entitled The Marvel Superheroes, and featured Ultron as the villain. The story was later adapted for the regular comic series (vol. 1 # 201-202). A full-length novel by David Michelinie, The Man Who Stole Tomorrow (also 1979) sent an Avengers team forward in time to fight Kang in the fortieth century. The novel is noteworthy for its humorous retro-history (e.g., the team passes a "Second Church of the Latter-Day Elvis"), as well as for introducing Inuit shaman Aningan Kenojuak, one of the "Eskimo" characters last seen worshipping the frozen body of Captain America (vol. 1 # 4).
* The Berkeley Boulevard imprint has published several Avengers tie-ins, all of them team-ups 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) for Pierce Askegren's The Avengers & the Thunderbolts(1999). 
* Pocket Books has published two tie-ins with the Ultimates. Michael Jan Friedman's Tomorrow Men (2006) was set between the first and second Ultimates arcs, and involved time travelers from the future. Alex Irvine's Against All Enemies (2007) pitted the team against the Chitauri.
==Animated series==
===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 each, while Thor does not appear in the series outside of the opening titles.
*The Avengers appeared briefly in the 1966 The Marvel Superheroes Show.
*The team also made appearances in the 1980 Spider-Man animated series ("Arsenic and Aunt May"); the 1994 Fantastic Four cartoon ("To Battle the Living Planet" and "Doomsday"), and in the X-Men animated series.
===Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes===
Marvel announced in October 2008 that its Marvel Animation division and the outside studio Film Roman would produce an Avengers animated TV series, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, for planned broadcast in 2011. Confirmed members are Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Ant-Man (Henry Pym), Wasp and the Hulk.Marvel Comics press release: "Announcing Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, October 8, 2008
==Film==
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Studios are scheduled to release on May 4, 2012 a film titled The Avengers. Iron Man director Jon Favreau is the executive producer, while Robert Downey, Jr. and Don Cheadle will play Iron Man and War Machine, respectively. Confirmed team members are Iron Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Thor. The film's writer, Zak Penn (co-writer of The Incredible Hulk film), cited Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's Ultimates version of the team as inspiration for the story.
In February 2009 Samuel L. Jackson signed a nine picture deal with Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures to play Nick Fury in Iron Man II, Thor, The First Avenger: Captain America, The Avengers and their respective sequels. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i57845f198f95ed938a79d4a806b64e68 In March 2009 Scarlett Johansson signed on to play Black Widow in both Iron Man II and The Avengers.
Lou Ferrigno stated at a comic book convention that he would be involved in the film.
==Video and computer games ==
In 1991, the Avengers were featured in the arcade and console game Captain America and the Avengers. 
In 1995 a videogame called "Avengers in Galactic Storm" based on the events of the Operation: Galactic Storm was published by Data East Corporation in the arcades in Japan and USA. It is now emulated by MAME.
The Avengers feature in the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance videogame.
==References==
*Marvel Comics: Avengers official site
*Big Comic Book DataBase: Avengers
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