AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (2012)

"Brian Michael Bendis (W) • Mark Bagley (A/C) Variant Covers By Arthur Adams & Marc Silvestri Blank Variant & Retailer Variants Also Available • The Avengers Versus The *Brand-New* Zodiac! • One Of The Greatest Avengers Villains Of All Time Gets Reinvented For The Modern Age Just In Time For The Blockbuster Movie Event Of The Summer! • A Perfect Jumping-On Point Featuring The Cast Of The Summer Blockbuster But In Marvel Universe Continuity! 32 Pgs./Rated T+ $3.99 *Issue Will Be Polybagged"

"• Who Is The Zodiac? • The Blockbuster Team Behind Ultimate Spider-Man Bring You An In-Continuity Avengers Team For Movie And Comic Book Fans Alike!"

"• Avengers versus the Zodiac! But who is behind the Zodiac? • PLUS! The reappearance of a team of characters you've been clamoring for! "

"• The secret of the Zodiac is revealed! • What impact will this revelation have on the Avengers and the world as they know it?!"

"• The secret behind Avengers Assemble is revealed but what does it mean for the future of the Marvel Universe? • PLUS: The return of the characters you demanded!"

"• Thanos is claiming Earth as his own! • The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy team up to bring theMad Titan some cosmically-charged pain!"

"• Thanos Rules!"

"• The explosive conclusion to the Avengers' cosmic odyssey! • Will the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy be able to stop Thanos from his quest to make Earth the throne world of his new empire? • The explosive fallout of the storyline will change one of the Avengers' lives forever as a brand-new Marvel initiative spins out of this bombastic series."

"• Kelly Sue Deconnick (CAPTAIN MARVEL) and Stefano Caselli (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) team up to tackle the titanic tales YOU DEMANDED! And in continuity to boot?! • Two scientists. Two giant egos. One wears a tank. One is a tank. Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are SCIENCE BROS! • When a fellow bigbrain goes missing, wanna bet who can find him first? It's Amazing Race, Avengers-style, as Iron Man and Hulk form their teams and embark on a global manhunt with the ultimate prize at stake bragging rights!"

"• Did you know that there's a theory that the bacteria in our bodies actually controls our moods and may even be responsible for elements of our personalities? TONY STARK and BRUCE BANNER did. • What happens when a 20 million-year-old evolutionary catalyst infects a HULK? Could it be a cure? • Meanwhile, on the outside, CAPTAINS MARVEL AND AMERICA must find the missing scientist before he unleashes said bacteria on the world."

"• Spider-Woman is totally safe locked in that box with the parasite-infested Hulk right? • Remember that time Tony Stark said he hated trust falls? You knew that was going to come back. C'mon. • ::whistles:: Hanging coffins of the Bo ::whistles:: • Yun Guang Han's done it--he's infected his Order of the Dragon initiates with next-step evolutionary bacteria and built himself a super-creepy (and kind of gross) army WITH WHICH TO CONQUER THE WORLD. • Mwah ha ha etc."

"• The sins of Black Widow's past have resurfaced and threaten the safety of not only the Avengers, but also the entire world!! • Widow, Spider-Woman and Hawkeye must travel to Siberia to search for a missing girl with ties to an old Soviet assassination. • But the truth behind this girl's disappearance may be more than the Avengers are prepared to handle! • Acclaimed writer Kelly Sue DeConnick teams with Pete Woods for an all new Avengers Assemble epic!"

"• Time to pay the piper or the psychopathic lizard girl. Black Widow and Hawkeye stand in judgment for the sins of their pasts. • Spider-Woman caught in the middle. • Natasha don't drink that, it's--! Uh-oh."

"• Black Widow heads back to her old stomping ground of San Francisco for coffee, old friends and the end of the world as we know it. • The Age of Ultron is here -- and nobody's getting out in one piece..."

"ULTRON RULES OK! The AGE OF ULTRON hits Britain, and Captain Britain hits back with a little help from his friends - including a vacationing Captain Marvel! Fighting a guerilla war in the ruins of London, AGGRO! is a way of life for Avengers UK - but when they might just be the last super heroes left alive, can there still be hope? Or is England dreaming?"

"THE ENEMY WITHIN: PART 2 OF 5 - Who wants YOU for dinner? The Brood! - Spider Woman & Captain Marvel declare war on the Magnetron! (Who?) - Hawkeye has a bright idea!"

"Part 4 of 5 of THE ENEMY WITHIN • With the world quite literally ripping apart at the seams, and the Avengers scattered how much longer can Captain Marvel fend off the madness of the Magnitron ?"

"INFINITY TIE-IN! • Part 1 of 2! A Spider-Woman's eye-view as the Avengers engage the seemingly unstoppable Builder fleet! • You know, the last time Spider-Woman was involved in a big alien invasion thingie, it didn't go so well for her. • I wonder, is Jessica Drew the kind of woman who holds a grudge?"

"INFINITY TIE-IN! • Part 2 of 2! Spider-Woman and Black Widow to the rescue! • Watch out alien marauders these ladies pack a sting!"

"Infinity tie -in ... FEATURING THE UNCANNY AVENGERS! • A giant naked man punches a Quinjet! • An eight-year-old girl fights a centaur at the heart of an atom! • Wonder Man's quest for peace! • AND THAT'S JUST THE STUFF WE CAN TELL YOU ABOUT! "

"• Remember all that crazy science from earlier issues?? Here's where it gets positively INHUMAN! • When Spider-Girl is in trouble who does she go to? • Black Widow, Spider-Girl and Spider-Woman. • Spider-Woman as a mentor Who thought this was a good idea?"

"INHUMANITY TIE-IN • Spider-Woman and the Hulk -- Team Sad! -- are Back in Black and red. And yellow. And purple and green. A lot of green. • Speaking of green Spider-Girl follows in the footsteps of her investigative reporter Dad and follows the money. • The Toxic Doxie has her very own Inhuman All that a homicidal maniac could ask for."

"INHUMANITY TIE-IN! • While tracking the toxic Dr. Covington, the education of SPIDER-GIRL takes a horrific turn: she must hero under the tutelage of the THE CURMUDGEONLY AVENGER: WOLVERINE! • The INHUMAN that the AVENGERS seek has unique ability--one that, in the wrong hands, could change everything! • WARREN ELLIS (AVENGERS: ENDLESS WARTIME) once again joins KELLY SUE DECONNICK (CAPTAIN MARVEL) in a delightfully demented dance through the Avengers roster."

"• Mad Scientist June Covington is at war in New York City with A.I.M. for control of new Inhuman abilities! (And also because she hates people and likes killing them!) • SPIDER-GIRL has to enlist the help of IRON MAN to understand what's at stake, how to fight it - and, if she's very lucky, how to recover her friend without ending up dead."

"ALL-OUT WAR IN NEW YORK CITY! • The demented Dr. June Covington has taken on A.I.M., and is winning. The Avengers are caught in the middle of this Mad Science War! • But, now, this situation is more important -- because there's a second Terrigen cocoon in New York, ticking like a time bomb, about to go off, Covington wants it and A.I.M. has it. • SPIDER-GIRL, who has been mentored by the Avengers in her search for her teacher, abducted by Covington for Nefarious Genetic Purposes, now leads the charge, as the Avengers Assemble to end this conflict before the Terrigen cocoon explodes and New York is doooooomed."