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The New Avengers (vol. 1) #58 (Dec. 2009)
by Brian Michael Bendis, Stuart Immonen, Wade von Grawbadger

The New Avengers (vol. 1) #58

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 2009

Publisher: Marvel
Written by: Brian Michael Bendis
Art by: Stuart Immonen, Wade von Grawbadger


26 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Spider-Man Spider-Man (Peter Parker) hero scientist
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Secret Defenders; Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends...  Marvel 10,664
Hawkeye Ronin (Clint Barton) hero
CBR Scale: U Christian (denomination
unknown)
Chain Gang; The Avengers...  Marvel 1,515
Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) hero
CBR Scale: I Protestant
Operation: Lightning Storm (leader); Starjammers...  Marvel 784
Luke Cage Luke Cage hero
CBR Scale: I Christian (denomination
unknown)
black; Heroes for Hire... 
[formerly owned a bar and theater]
Marvel 951
Winter Soldier Captain America (Bucky Barnes) hero
CBR Scale: U Protestant (nominal)
Kid Commandos; Liberty Legion...  Marvel Timely 395
Norman Osborn Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) villain
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Cabal of Scrier (leader); Dark Avengers (leader)...  Marvel 417
Ares Ares villain hero deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Dark Avengers; Olympian... 
[god of war; Gods of Olympus]
Marvel DC 440
Moonstone Ms. Marvel (Karla Sofen) villain hero
CBR Scale: U Buddhist
Dark Avengers; Femizons...  Marvel 235
The Scorpion Spider-Man (Mac Gargan) villain hero
CBR Scale: U manifestly non-religious
Dark Avengers; Initiative...  Marvel 315
Bullseye Hawkeye (Benjamin Poindexter) villain
CBR Scale: I Catholic (nominal); nihilist
Dark Avengers; The Thunderbolts
[former baseball pitcher]
Marvel 243
Daken Wolverine (Daken Akihiro) villain
CBR Scale: S Shinto (raised); later "non-religious"
Asian; Dark Avengers... 
[son of Wolverine]
Marvel 72
H.A.M.M.E.R. H.A.M.M.E.R. supporting character group
  [government agency] Marvel 207
Spider-Woman Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) hero
CBR Scale: I Wundagorian Transhumanism
(raised); HYDRA (former)
Heroes for Hire; HYDRA...  Marvel 353
Mockingbird Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse) hero
  S.H.I.E.L.D.; The Avengers... 
[was Hawkeye's wife]
Marvel 293
Jewel Jewel (Jessica Jones) hero
  New Avengers (ally) Marvel 139
Danielle Cage Danielle Cage supporting character
  black
[baby daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones]
Marvel 20
Night Nurse Night Nurse (Linda Carter) supporting character
  [nurse] Marvel 29
Mrs. Jones
(9-panel cameo, pg. 17-19)
supporting character
  [adoptive mother of Jessica Jones] Marvel 2
The Hood The Hood (Parker Robbins)
(6-panel cameo, pg. 14, panels 1-6)
villain
CBR Scale: M demonolatry
Hood's Army; The Cabal Marvel 159
John King John King
(5-panel cameo, pg. 14, panels 1-6)
villain
  Hood's Army
[cousin of The Hood]
Marvel 6
Madame Masque Madame Masque (Whitney Frost)
(4-panel cameo, pg. 14, panels 1-6)
villain
  Hood's Army; Maggia (leader) Marvel 146
Dr. Jonas Harrow Dr. Jonas Harrow
(2-panel cameo, pg. 21, panels 1-2)
villain scientist
  Hood's Army Marvel 20
Wrecker Wrecker (Dirk Garthwaite)
(mentioned, pg. 15, panel 3)
villain
  Hood's Army; Lethal Legion...  Marvel 190
Ben Urich Ben Urich
(mentioned, pg. 9)
supporting character
CBR Scale: S Jewish
[reporter] Marvel 19
Loki
(mentioned, pg. 1)
villain deity
CBR Scale: D Norse/Teutonic deity
Asgardian; Mighty Avengers (founder)...  Marvel DC 696
Zeus Zeus
(mentioned, pg. 7, panel 3) 
supporting character deity
CBR Scale: D Greco-Roman deity
Council of Godheads
[supreme monarch of the Olympian gods]
DC Marvel 283