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The Avengers, the upcoming superhero film based on the heroes created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is getting plenty of mainstream media attention in advance of its May 4th premiere, including a recent bit on Conan imagining a series of "rejected Avengers...

Though green, crinkly-chinned alien shapeshifters may or may not make up Loki's Army in The Avengers movie when it opens on May 4, Hasbro will at least include a comic book version of a skrull soldier in its action figure line. Set to arrive alongside movie versions of Hawkeye and Black Widow as early as next month, the upcoming figure is unique in that it doesn't share any pieces in common with

Four more of Mondo's expertly-designed The Avengers movie posters have surfaced, showing off The Alamo Drafthouse creative boutique's take on Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Among the upcoming limited edition prints are Iron Man by Kevin Tong, Captain America by Phantom City Creative, Thor by Martin Ansin and Hulk by Ken Taylor...

A new Target ad campaign titled "A Superhero in Every Aisle" has assembled the Avengers from a wide variety of household objects, ranging from action figures to pencils to an inordinate number of Dr. Pepper cans with their logos prominently on display...

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, is on a mission to bring style back to the neglected art of movie posters. Since 2005 their Mondo boutique has worked with some of the best graphic designers in the business to produce beautiful posters for dozens of movies, including the Star Wars and Star Trek franchises and some of Marvel's past superhero movies...

With just two weeks left until The Avengers movie opens in theaters, Hot Toys has released images of its 1/6 scale Captain America action figure. Sporting the likeness of actor Chris Evans, this Cap joins Nick Fury and Hawkeye in a line that will eventually include new versions of the full team (Hulk, Thor, Iron Man Mark VII and an updated Black Widow)...

Just as Marvel Studios has spent the past few summers building a cinematic universe where its most famous heroes can team up, so too has Hasbro built a corresponding plastic realm where fans young and old can act out the adventures of The Avengers with action figures, role play toys and costume items...

A creature designer who worked on Star Wars: Episode I and illustrated The Katurran Odyssey, Terryl Whitlatch was also once a student of zoology, a knowledge base that she recently put to valuable use by drawing some unusually realistic-looking pictures of the Avengers dressed as dinosaurs...

Last night the filmmakers and stars of The Avengers celebrated their work on the Marvel Studios film with one of those celebrity-strewn red carpet events that we all feel very cynically about but in truth probably wouldn't if we got to hang out with Robert Downey, Jr...