Asgardian

Bursting onto the scene in 2005's landmark Young Avengers #1 — a key issue by the celebrated creative team of Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung — Asgardian is a Modern Age Marvel debut with collector significance baked right into their origin. Though their catalog footprint is compact, the company they keep is anything but: these pages are shared with the likes of Eli Bradley, Teddy Altman, Iron Man, and Captain America, placing Asgardian squarely at the heart of one of Marvel's most buzzed-about launches of the mid-2000s. For anyone tracing the roots of the Young Avengers phenomenon, Asgardian is an essential piece of the puzzle.