Young Avengers is a comic book published by Marvel Comics. It is written by Allan Heinberg , who is best known for his writing of several epsidoes of The O.C.. Spinning out of the events of Avengers Disassembled, it is the story of four young superheroes, each of whom patterns himself after a founding member of the Avengers. The newspapers call them "super-powered fanboys", and coin the name "Young Avengers" for the group, a name that the team dislikes.

Team members

• Patriot (based on Captain America, and sporting a uniform resembling that of Cap's old sidekick Bucky)
• Hulkling (based on the Hulk)
• Iron Lad (based on Iron Man)
• Asgardian (based on Thor)

Other recurring characters include Jessica Jones (Alias), Katherine "Kat" Farrell, Captain America, Iron Man, Cassie Lang (the teenage daughter of Scott Lang, the second Ant-Man), Kate Bishop (sister of the Bride from the St. Patrick's Cathedral "rescue"), and Kang the Conqueror. Patriot is the grandson of ISAIAH BRADLEY, the first and Afro-Americans Captain America in Truth: Red, White and Black #1-#6 and his the same powers and abilites to Captain America.

Storylines

Sidekicks (issues #1-6)

This storyline introduces the team, and focuses mostly on the attempts of reporters (Jones and Farrell of The Pulse) and heroes (Captain America and Iron Man) to find out more about these mysterious new heroes. The story is set in the time between the end of Avengers Disassembled and the beginning of New Avengers .

Future events we know about.

At the end of issue 2 it was revealed that Cassie has some form of growth/shrink power, it is assumed she will become either Giant or Ant Girl. The solicitation cover of issue 6 indicates that Kate will take on a non powered role simular to that of Hawkeye. The same cover shows Iron Lads decapitated head leading many to assume this means he will expire but it is noticable that the head appears superimposed leading to the possibility that the cover is an altered fake simular to that of Astonishing X-Men 7 (altered to conceal the return of a major character).