The Avengers are ending.

Or that's what we're being led to believe will happen in Marvel Comics' upcoming marquee event, Avengers: Armageddon. Launching this June as a five-issue event, this series is marketed setting up "a stransformative shakeup to the" Avengers, and setting up "a new ara" for them that hasn't been seen since 2004's 'Avengers Dissambled' which saw the team broken up (and in some cases killed!) by the Scarlet Witch, only to return in a modern-day updated framed as New Avengers.

Veteran Marvel writer Chip Zdarsky (Batman, Spectacular Spider-Man, Sex Criminals) is heading up Avengers: Armageddon, teeing off his current Captain America run and into a summer where the main Avengers series will be over, therefore leaving room for something else. He is joined by his current Captain America art team of Frank Alpizar and Delio Diaz (Doomed 2099, Terminus Veil, Time Sensitive) and cover artist Dike Ruan.

Here's everything you need to know about Avengers: Armageddon.

What is the Avengers: Armageddon story?

Last year, Marvel's heroes fought against a new initiative by Doctor Doom to take over the world, outlined in the 2025 event One World Under Doom. Good news: they beat him. Bad news? Thaddeus 'Thunderbolt' Ross (aka Red Hulk) took over Doom's homeland of Latveria, showing an intention to do much of the same. Since then, those intentions have become tensions in The Will of Doom oneshot and in the current Captain America run, and then began to boil over in the current Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon series, which has revealed that the Weapon X program has been revived, creating soldiers for an impending war.

"When the Avengers assemble against [Red Hulk], explosive escalations will force them to unleash a power that changes how the world views their mightiest heroes forever," reads a Marvel marketing text for Avengers Armageddon. "This pivotal chapter will lead directly into a new era of Avengers starting later this year."

What is in the Avengers: Armageddon checklist?

A wise man once said the past is prologue, and in the case of Avengers: Armageddon, although it doesn't formally begin until June, it's already being set up, according to Zdarsky, in comic stories that began last December. With that in mind, we're assembling (and updating!) a growing checklist of all the stories to get into Avengers: Armageddon.

Avengers: Armageddon prologue checklist

• December 24: The Will of Doom #1
• January 21: Captain America #6
• February 18: Captain America #7
• February 18: Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #1 (of 4)
• March 18: Captain America #8
• March 25: Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #2 (of 4)
• May 2: Armageddon/X-Men #1 
• April 21: Captain America #9
• April 29:: Captain America #10
• April 29: Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #3 (of 4)
• May 13: Captain America #11
• May 20: Reborn: Ultimate Impact #1
• May 20: Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #4 (of 4)

Avengers: Armageddon core issues checklist

• June 3: Avengers: Armageddon #1 (of 5) 
• To be announced: Avengers: Armageddon #2 (of 5)
• To be announced: Avengers: Armageddon #3 (of 5)
• To be announced: Avengers: Armageddon #4 (of 5)
• To be announced: Avengers: Armageddon #5 (of 5)
  
  

Avengers: Armageddon collections checklist

• June 30: Captain America Vol. 1: Our Secret Wars paperback
• November 17: Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon paperback
• To be announced: Captain America Vol. 2
• To be announced: Avengers: Armageddon

Look for even more to be announced in the coming months.

Want more? Make sure you've read our list of all the best Marvel Comics stories of all time, and get ready for all the free Marvel comics coming as part of this year's Free Comic Book Day / Comics Giveaway Day events.