Volume 1 - 1st printing. Collects Avengers (1997-2004 3rd Series) #500-503 and #500 DIRECTOR'S CUT, Avengers Finale (2005), New Avengers (2005-2010 1st Series) #1-10 and #1 DIRECTOR'S CUT, and New Avengers Most Wanted Files (2005).

Written by Brian Michael Bendis. Art by David Finch, George Perez, Steve Epting, Jim Cheung, Eric Powell, Darick Robertson, Mike Oeming, Alex Maleev, David Mack, and Steven McNiven. Cover by David Finch.

Award-winning writer Brian Michael Bendis transforms Earth's Mightiest Heroes! But before he can build his New Avengers, he must disassemble the old ones!

In the team's darkest day, one of their own tears them apart - seemingly forever! But when Electro triggers a breakout at super-villain prison the Raft, Captain America and Iron Man find themselves fighting alongside a new, and very different, group of allies. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage and Spider-Woman join the new order as the Avengers are reborn!

But will the mysterious Sentry add the power of a million exploding suns to the lineup? First he needs to figure out who he is!

One glorious era ends, and another age of greatness begins!

Softcover, 504 pages, full color.