Avengers: The Heroic Age

This collection is a great jumping on point for people who want to read about the Avengers on the dawn of the first Avengers movie.  This is also the second half of Brian Michael Bendis's run on the Avengers titles.  Bendis's run collects the 2 main titles Avengers & New Avengers there are 2 other titles that fill out the Avengers books Secret Avengers & Avengers Academy.  All of the events in this book take place after the events of Siege.  This book includes Avengers: Prime it also has the first 6 issues of both Avengers & New Avengers.  Avengers: Prime is a great story that shows the bonds of friendship that the trinity of the Avengers share even with all of the trouble they have gone through during most of Bendis's run.  The first story-arc of Avengers is a time traveling tale that includes Kang & sets some of the ground work for Age of Ultron.  Finally the third story-arc is in New Avengers with Luke Cage getting the keys to Avengers Mansion & setting up a second team of Avengers in New York City.  This is a magical tale involving the Eye of Agammotto, this was a lot of fun to read mostly because it delves into a side of the Marvel Universe that doesn't get a lot of attention.