goldenboy
07-06-2009, 09:33 AM
Is anybody out there reading this?
I'm really starting to get into it. I'd never read anything by Jeff Parker before but I saw issue #1 at the shop and the premise looked fun. It's good stuff. Fresh and funny. I've now gone back and read the first series from 2006. Really great.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/cons/cci2008/atlas/atlascrew.jpg
Agents of Atlas is a fictional superhero team in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is composed of characters originally appearing in unrelated stories published in the 1950s by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics.
The characters debuted as a team in What If #9 (June 1978), and starred in the 2006 limited series, Agents of Atlas, the latter written by Jeff Parker,[1] with art by Leonard Kirk.[2]
Publication history
This group of heroes, which was not a team in 1950s comics, was established through retroactive continuity as having been established in the 1950s. They had appeared as a group in the non-canonical What If #9 (June 1978)[3] and then reappeared in Avengers Forever (1998-2000 miniseries).
The limited series Agents of Atlas #1-6 (Oct. 2006 - March 2007) was set in the present day and likewise set in mainstream continuity. The series emerged from what writer Parker called "a huge editorial hunch" at Marvel, and said the revival of the characters "is something that [editor] Mark Paniccia was looking at and [for which he] thought specifically of me, and asked me what I would do with it".[4] Paniccia says the idea came to him when he picked up a copy of the What if? story and found the cover "intriguing; it instantly tickles the nostalgia bone".[5]
The team made a brief appearance in the "The Resistance (http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/AGENTS_OF_ATLAS.2009.0)", an eight-page story that was part of the Secret Invasion crossover story arc.[6] Parker and editor Paniccia said in July 2008 that the former will write an Agents of Atlas ongoing series[7] which is one of the titles launching as part of the Dark Reign storyline.[8][9][10]
Characters
The team, with the individual characters' debuts in chronological order, consists of:
* Namora — Marvel Mystery Comics #82 (May 1947)
* Venus — Venus #1 (Aug. 1948)
* Marvel Boy/The Uranian — Marvel Boy #1 (Dec. 1950)
* Gorilla-Man — Men's Adventures #26 (March 1954)
* M-11 — Menace #11 (May 1954) [11]
* Jimmy Woo and the Yellow Claw — Yellow Claw #1 (Oct. 1956)
Other characters from the original story, such as Jann of the Jungle,[13] made guest appearances. Parker explained that original What if? team-member 3-D Man was left out "[b]ecause he wasn't really around in the 1950s".[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_Atlas
I'm really starting to get into it. I'd never read anything by Jeff Parker before but I saw issue #1 at the shop and the premise looked fun. It's good stuff. Fresh and funny. I've now gone back and read the first series from 2006. Really great.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/cons/cci2008/atlas/atlascrew.jpg
Agents of Atlas is a fictional superhero team in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is composed of characters originally appearing in unrelated stories published in the 1950s by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics.
The characters debuted as a team in What If #9 (June 1978), and starred in the 2006 limited series, Agents of Atlas, the latter written by Jeff Parker,[1] with art by Leonard Kirk.[2]
Publication history
This group of heroes, which was not a team in 1950s comics, was established through retroactive continuity as having been established in the 1950s. They had appeared as a group in the non-canonical What If #9 (June 1978)[3] and then reappeared in Avengers Forever (1998-2000 miniseries).
The limited series Agents of Atlas #1-6 (Oct. 2006 - March 2007) was set in the present day and likewise set in mainstream continuity. The series emerged from what writer Parker called "a huge editorial hunch" at Marvel, and said the revival of the characters "is something that [editor] Mark Paniccia was looking at and [for which he] thought specifically of me, and asked me what I would do with it".[4] Paniccia says the idea came to him when he picked up a copy of the What if? story and found the cover "intriguing; it instantly tickles the nostalgia bone".[5]
The team made a brief appearance in the "The Resistance (http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/AGENTS_OF_ATLAS.2009.0)", an eight-page story that was part of the Secret Invasion crossover story arc.[6] Parker and editor Paniccia said in July 2008 that the former will write an Agents of Atlas ongoing series[7] which is one of the titles launching as part of the Dark Reign storyline.[8][9][10]
Characters
The team, with the individual characters' debuts in chronological order, consists of:
* Namora — Marvel Mystery Comics #82 (May 1947)
* Venus — Venus #1 (Aug. 1948)
* Marvel Boy/The Uranian — Marvel Boy #1 (Dec. 1950)
* Gorilla-Man — Men's Adventures #26 (March 1954)
* M-11 — Menace #11 (May 1954) [11]
* Jimmy Woo and the Yellow Claw — Yellow Claw #1 (Oct. 1956)
Other characters from the original story, such as Jann of the Jungle,[13] made guest appearances. Parker explained that original What if? team-member 3-D Man was left out "[b]ecause he wasn't really around in the 1950s".[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agents_of_Atlas