Young Avengers is an American

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 comic book

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 series written by Allan Heinberg

Allan Heinberg

Allan Heinberg is an American film screenwriter, who wrote Young Avengers for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on The Naked Truth, Party of Five, Sex and the City, Gilmore Girls, The O.C., and Grey's Anatomy.Heinberg's Young Avengers was a sales success for Marvel, though faced...

 and published by Marvel Comics

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. It follows a group of young superhero

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es, each of whom patterns themselves after a member of the long-established Marvel superhero team the Avengers

Avengers (comics)

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.

The series won the 2006 GLAAD Media Award

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 for Outstanding Comic Book and the 2006 Harvey Award

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 for Best New Series.

Marvel's 1940s forerunner, Timely Comics

Timely Comics

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, had an unrelated character, Young Avenger, who debuted in USA Comics #1 (Aug.