T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
| T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents | |
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T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Companion Cover
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Tower Comics JC Comics Deluxe Comics DC Comics |
| Schedule | Bimonthly |
| Publication date(s) |
(Tower) November 1965 – November 1969 (JC) May 1983 – January 1984 (Deluxe) November 1984 – October 1986 (DC) January 2011 – June 2012 (IDW) 2013 – present |
| No. of issues |
(Tower)
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| Main character(s) | Dynamo Lightning Menthor NoMan James "Egghead" Andor Dynamite Kathryn "Kitten" Kane William "Weed" Wylie Raven Undersea Agent Vulcan |
| Creative team | |
| Written by |
Len Brown Larry Ivie Dan Adkins Bill Pearson Steve Skeates Manny Stallman Nick Spencer |
| Artist(s) |
Wally Wood Gil Kane Paul Reinman Mike Sekowsky Chic Stone |
(Tower)
20
(JC)
2
(Deluxe)
5
(DC)
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents is a fictional team of superheroes that appeared in comic books originally published by Tower Comics in the 1960s. They were an arm of the United Nations and were notable for their depiction of the heroes as everyday people whose heroic careers were merely their day jobs. The series was also notable for featuring some of the better artists of the day, such as Wally Wood. The team first appeared in T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1 (cover-dated Nov. 1965). The name is an acronym for "The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves". A film adaptation is scheduled for release in 2018.
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents was a bimonthly comic book published by Tower Comics. It ran for 20 issues (Nov. 1965 - Nov. 1969), plus two short-lived spin-off series starring the most popular super agents (Dynamo and NoMan). To launch the project, Wally Wood huddled with scripter Len Brown (and possibly Larry Ivie) on a superhero concept Brown had described to Wood a year earlier. Brown recalled, "Wally had remembered my concept and asked me to write a 12-page origin story. I submitted a Captain Thunderbolt story in which he fought a villain named Dynamo." With a few changes by Wood and a title obviously inspired by the success of the spy-fi television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and the then-current James Bond film Thunderball, the series got underway. Tower Comics went out of business in 1969, and the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents went into limbo.
In 1981 the rights to T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents were bought by John Carbonaro, who published several issues of a new series in the early 1980s under his JC Comics line, the last of which was published through Archie Comics' Red Circle Comics line.
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