10 Best Modern Age Marvel #1 Comics
4. New Avengers #1
By the early 2000s Marvel's flagship title, The Avengers, was in trouble. Kurt Busiek had finished a legendary run which was a love letter to everything the team had been. The problem was fans didn't want to read about those characters anymore.
The line-up at the time was Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and a bunch of lesser-known heroes that whoever was writing the book favoured. These Avengers were not the core around which Marvel could build its universe - it was just another title lost in the monthly shuffle. Enter Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch with a plan to change people’s perception of the team.
New Avengers would remove the deadwood and give fans a line-up of Marvel's most popular heroes. Along with stalwarts like Cap and Iron Man, fan favourites like Wolverine and Spider-Man would join the team.
Armed with an all-star line-up both on the page and behind the scenes, the first issue set loose most of the villains in the MCU, laid the groundwork for several long-running story arcs and told readers this is THE Marvel book now.