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Publication history

The Agents of Atlas miniseries ran six issues (Oct. 2006 - March 2007), set in the present day. This group of heroes, which was not a team in 1950s comics, was established through retroactive continuity as having been a team in the 1950s in flashback stories in What If (vol. 1) #9 (June 1978) and Marvel: The Lost Generation (2000-2001 miniseries). Retroactive continuity – commonly contracted to the portmanteau word retcon – refers to the act of changing previously established details of a fictional setting, often without providing an explanation for the changes within the context of that setting. ... In literature, film, television and other media, a flashback (also called analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. ... What If? Vol. ...

Fictional team biography

The group was formed in Spring 1958 by FBI agent Jimmy Woo to rescue President Eisenhower from the villainous Yellow Claw. Woo first recruits Venus and Marvel Boy. He then tries to recruit Namora, who declines but tells Woo where to find a broken but potentially useful robot named M-11. While Marvel Boy fixes M-11, Woo asks Jann of the Jungle to take Marvel Boy to extend an invitation to Gorilla-Man, who accepts Woo's offer. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Jimmy Woo is a fictional, Chinese-American secret agent in the Marvel Comics comic-book universe. ... Dwight David Ike Eisenhower (October 14, 1890–March 28, 1969), American soldier and politician, was the 34th President of the United States (1953–1961) and supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II, with the rank of General of the Army. ... The Yellow Claw is a fictional comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, created by EC Comics great Al Feldstein and artist Joe Maneely in Yellow Claw #1 (Oct. ... Venus is a fictional character in the Marvel Comic universe, based on the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) from Greek and Roman mythology. ... Marvel Boy is the name of three fictional comic book characters in the Marvel Comics universe, including predecessor companies Timely Comics and Atlas Comics. ... Namora is the name of two fictional characters in various Marvel Comics publications. ... M-11 is a fictional robot in the Marvel Comics comic-book universe. ... Gorilla-Man is the name of three fictional characters appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

The group quickly rescues President Eisenhower and remains together for another six months until the federal government decides the public isn't ready for such a group, at which point it disbands the heroes and all information about the group becomes classified.

Years later, Woo, by now a high-ranking agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., attempts a secret raid of a group identified as The Atlas Foundation. Going AWOL and taking several other willing agents with him, Woo infiltrates an Atlas Foundation location, resulting in all of the recruits being killed. Woo himself is critically burned and loses his higher brain functions. Gorilla-Man, by now also a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, gives the organization a record of the 1950s team, of which S.H.I.E.L.D. had no prior knowledge. Learning of Woo's failed raid, Gorilla-Man rescues Woo with the aid of M-11 and Marvel Boy, who restores Woo to his 1958 self. Shortly afterwards, Namora, whom the group believed dead, returns and joined the Agents. Shortly afterwards, the team learns M-11 is a double agent for the Yellow Claw, and that Venus is one of the legendary Sirens given flesh, and not the Venus/Aphrodite of legend. S.H.I.E.L.D. (originally an acronym for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division, changed in 1991 to Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate) is a fictional counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Universe that often deals with superhuman threats. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Atlas An atlas is a collection of maps or manifolds, traditionally bound into book form, but also found in multimedia formats. ... AWOL (pronounced a-wall) is an acronym for the United States and other armed forces expression Absent WithOut Leave or Absence Without Official Leave. The United States Marine Corps and the United States Navy use the term Unauthorized Absence (UA) instead. ... A double agent pretends to spy on a target organization on behalf of a controlling organization, but in fact is loyal to the target organization. ... In Greek mythology, the Sirens or Seirenes (Greek Σειρῆνας) were sea nymphs who lived on an island called Sirenum scopuli which was surrounded by cliffs and rocks. ... The Birth of Venus, (detail) by Sandro Botticelli, 1485 For other uses, see Aphrodite (disambiguation). ...

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Temple of Atlas

As part of a viral marketing strategy to promote the series, fans could participate in an alternate reality game centred around the Temple of Atlas weblog on Marvel's website. There, readers received weekly prose excerpts of the exploits of Jimmy Woo and his team, and were given "missions" from the Temple's curator, the mysterious "Mr. Lao". The goal was to discover each week's keyword by following textual clues Lao would post on the messageboards of such comic-book news sites as Newsarama and Comic Book Resources. They, along with IGN and Silver Bullet Comics, would also feature fake news posts that players would be led toward, containing more clues for finding keywords. Anagrams were regular, and on several occasions, one keyword had to be taken "into the field" by going to a local comic shop and saying the phrase to the staff in order to receive a keyword in response. On two occasions, players were required to attend a Heroes Convention and the San Diego Comic-Con International to find keywords. Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. ... Alternate Reality, see Alternate Reality (computer game). ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Newsarama. ... Comic Book Resources logo Comic Book Resources is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion. ... For other uses, see IGN (disambiguation). ... Heroes Convention, or HeroesCon, is a comic book convention that takes place in late June in Charlotte, North Carolina. ... “San Diego” redirects here. ... Comic-Con International, commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, is an annual multigenre fan convention founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans. ...

Collections

• Agents of Atlas (256 pages, Marvel Comics, May 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2712-7)

Trade paperback collection of the miniseries plus the first appearances of major characters: Yellow Claw #1, Menace #11, Venus #1, Marvel Mystery Comics #82, Marvel Boy #1, Men's Adventures #26, and What If? (vol. 1) #9.

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References

Comic Book Resources articles by Dave Richards:

• "Secret Avengers Reassembled? Paniccia Talks Agents of Atlas (May 12, 2006)
• "The Marvel Universe Now with Extra Pulp: Parker Talks Agents Of Atlas (May 19, 2006)
• "The Weight of the World on his Pencil: Kirk Talks "Agents Of Atlas" (May 26, 2006)
• "Agents Of Atlas: Week 4 - Agent Profile: Marvel Boy & A Cryptic Invitation" (June 3, 2006)
• "Agents Of Atlas" - Agent Profile:Woo, Jimmy Woo (June 12, 2006)
• "Agents Of Atlas: The Final Agent Profile" (June 16, 2006)

Footnotes

External links

• Main site
• SilverBulletComics.com (Sep. 27, 2006): "Jeff Parker and the New Adventures of Old Marvel", by Mitch Montgomery
• Jeff Nevins' "A Guide to Marvel's Pre-FF #1 Heroes": Jimmy Woo and Jann of the Jungle
• Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe: The Human Robot
• Review of the trade