Marvel Entertainment is bringing an animated Avengers series to television in 2011, in time for Captain America and Earth’s Mightest Heroes to make their big-screen debuts.
The 26-episode cartoon, called The Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes, is being produced by Film Roman, the company behind The Simpsons and King of the Hill. Ciro Nieli (Teen Titans) will produce the series; Christopher Yost (X-Men: Evolution, Fantastic Four) will serve as story editor.
This is part of Marvel Animation’s big push into television, which has been dominated in recent years by Warner Bros./DC Comics. Wolverine and the X-Men and Iron Man: Armored Adventures debut next year on Nicktoons, and Black Panther on BET. Marvel Super Hero Squad also is in the works.
Update: Marvel’s official press release
October 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Cool. let’s hope that for once they’ll use the REAL version of the Avengers :=)
October 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Don’t forget the
Hulk Gamma Corps Cartoon.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:24 am
If only Marvel and Film Roman could steal away Bruce Timm and Dwayne McDuffie to produce, oversee and write the series.
The best “Marvel” animation have been Justice League episodes where they used substitute characters — I especially loved The Defenders homage episode [Solomon Grundy = Hulk, Aquaman = Namor, Hawkwoman = Nighthawk, Dr Fate = Dr Strange, etc.].
October 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am
cool! I too hope they’ll use the “real” versions of the Avengers, and not the kids version that came out not too long ago (though that wasn’t bad either)
October 8th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Give Cap his first Ultimate look and we’re all set…those designs look nice.
October 8th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Eeeew. They all look so ugly and inbred.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
The new X-Men Cartoon recently started airing on YTV in Canadaland… it’s probably the best X-Men cartoon to date. Really cool and worth checking out.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
About Time Good move Marvel
October 9th, 2008 at 8:17 am
X-cellant!
Definitely looking forward to this.