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''Agents of Atlas'' is a 2006 Marvel Comics Comic-book Limited Series about a Group Of Superheroes composed of characters collected from various unrelated stories originally published in the 1950s by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics . 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 '' (2000-2001 miniseries). 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. 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 after that, the team learns M-11 is a Double Agent for the Yellow Claw, and that Venus to be one of the legendary Sirens given flesh, and not the Venus/ Aphrodite of legend. TEMPLE OF ATLAS As part of a 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. COLLECTIONS
::'' #1, ''Menace'' #11, '' Venus '' #1, '' Marvel Mystery Comics '' #82, '' Marvel Boy '' #1, ''Men's Adventures'' #26, and '' What If? '' vol. 1, #9. REFERENCES ''Comic Book Resources'' articles by Dave Richards:
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