AGENTS OF ATLAS

 

AGENTS OF ATLAS

Roster: Gorilla-Man, M-11 the Human Robot, Namora, Marvel Boy/Uranian (Robert Grayson), Venus, Jimmy Woo, and 3-D Man II

First Appearance: Agents of Atlas (Vol. 1) #1, October 2006

Brief History: A superhero team formed by the United States federal government in 1958* and brought back together by their leader Jimmy Woo nearly 40 years later, the Agents of Atlas are a team of misfits dedicated to using the resources of an evil empire to bring about good.

*The Agents of Atlas are the current incarnation of various characters originally owned by Atlas Comics, one of the companies which merged to become Marvel Comics in the early 1960s. Largely abandoned when Marvel Comics began, the Atlas characters were revisited in ”What If..?" (Vol. 1) #9, June 1978 that teamed them with the first 3-D Man, a retcon character created in the 1970s but active in the 1950s, as a 1950's team of Avengers. Unlike most "What If..?" stories, the issue left open the suggestion that this team had actually existed in secret in the main 616 Marvel Universe. However, at least one version of the group was wiped from existence during the “Avengers Forever” 12-issue series. The Agents of Atlas series established the modern and official version of the team, sans the original 3-D Man, active briefly in 1958-59 as "The G-Men" and regrouped decades later in the present as Agents of the Atlas Foundation. The limited series also managed to retcon the history and status of every single member.