Let’s take a look at these founding New Warriors and a little more background on where they come from:Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. In true super-team tradition, the youthful heroes discover that once they beat the bad guy the sum total outweighs themselves individually and “hey, maybe we should do this again on the regs?”. When the ongoing series kicks off in Spring 1990, the first issue doubles back and reveals that the Warriors’ first actual rodeo is in fact actually much more Avenger-y. As far as the mainstream hero-base is concerned, this went as a completely unfulfilled niche until the late 1980s.ĭebuting unexpectedly in a Thor tie-in issue to 1989’s big Acts Of Vengeance crossover event, the New Warriors burst onto the scene! Not only does the roster consist of an unlikely combination of surprising old faces and new working together, what’s most interesting is that they’re already acting like a team. Sure, there was New Mutants but they all wore matching uniforms, clearly signifying as the farm team for the mutant-centric X-franchises.

Marvel doesn’t ever really do the whole “kid sidekick” thing but there’s certainly never been a shortage of young super-powered people trying to make their way in a crazy comic book universe.Īlthough the landscape doesn’t really reflect it as much these days with the prominence of Young Avengers and the teenage Champions, for years there wasn’t much of a “Junior League Avengers” in the same way DC could seemingly always throw to the Teen Titans.

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