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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
10/8/08 - Marvel Animation, the cartoon division of Marvel Entertainment, is beginning production on The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the company's latest animated TV series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.  Film Roman, the company behind The Simpsons, has been tapped to produce the 26-episode series, which will be available for broadcast in 2011. That same year, Marvel Studios will release the live-action movies The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers.  Producing the TV series is Ciro Nieli, whose credits include Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! and Teen Titans.  Based on the long-running comic, Avengers features some of the company's most popular characters, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Giant Man and the comely Wasp, who fight forces of evil that no single hero stands a chance against.

AlienAlmanac.com 2008