History ComicBook / AgentsOfAtlas

Creator/GregPak introduced a "New" Agents of Atlas in 2019, in a series tying in with ''ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms''. This roster consists entirely of Asian superheroes, with Jimmy Woo ComicBook/AmadeusCho, ComicBook/KamalaKhan, ComicBook/ShangChi, and ComicBook/{{Silk}} teaming up with newcomers Aero, Sword Master, and Wave.

Creator/GregPak introduced a "New" Agents of Atlas in 2019, in a series tying in with ''ComicBook/WarOfTheRealms''. This roster consists entirely of Asian superheroes, with seasoned ComicBook/AmadeusCho, Jimmy Woo, ComicBook/KamalaKhan, ComicBook/ShangChi, and ComicBook/{{Silk}} teaming up with newcomers Aero, Sword Master, and Wave.

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Creator/RandallPark appeared in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo. Various businesses named Atlas have also appeared (for instance, across the hall from the Nelson & Murdock offices in ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''), and it's nice to think they're fronts for ''the'' Atlas.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jimmy is also Woo Yen Jet, and it turns out the Golden Claw's real name is [[spoiler: Plan Chu, so everybody addresses him as [[PunnyName Master Plan]].]]

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Creator/RandallPark will appear in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo. Various businesses named Atlas have also appeared (for instance, across the hall from the Nelson & Murdock offices in ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''), and it's nice to think they're fronts for ''the'' Atlas.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Issue 3 of the regular series features the Agents fighting Captain America on the cover. Cap does show up, but not until the very last panel. The fight happens in the next issue.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Yellow Claw notes that despite the fact that Jimmy stopped his plans many times over, captured a Nazi war criminal, and even ''rescued the President'', he was still buried in red tape, because the U.S. Government wasn't "ready for a hero of Chinese lineage".
** Yellow Claw states that his real title is ''Golden'' Claw, and that Yellow Claw is simply a slur created by the West.

* MythologyGag: The title ''Agents of Atlas'' is a nod to Atlas Comics, Marvel's predecessor, as a homage to the team's [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] origins.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Venus, who discovers she's actually an amnesiac Siren, which leads her into a HeroicBSOD. Note there IS a Venus goddess in the Marvel Universe. How much of the 50s Venus series depends on which Venus remains to be defined]].

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Randall Park (''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'') will appear in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo. Various businesses named Atlas have also appeared (for instance, across the hall from the Nelson & Murdock offices in ''Series/{{Daredevil}}''), and it's nice to think they're fronts for ''the'' Atlas.

** Lampshaded two issues later, where the cover shows the Agents fighting The Avengers. Just as the teams are about to clash,Franchise/SpiderMan stops them both, suspecting that the Agents may actually be good guys. It looks like the cover has lied again, and the two teams are going to just talk it out. Nope. One misplaced laser blast later, the two teams are duking it out.

** Lampshaded two issues later, where the cover shows the Agents fighting The Avengers. Just as the teams are about to clash, {{Spider-Man}} stops them both, suspecting that the Agents may actually be good guys. It looks like the cover has lied again, and the two teams are going to just talk it out. Nope. One misplaced laser blast later, the two teams are duking it out.

* AntiHeroTeam: It's made apparent in the series that the Agents of Atlas don't follow conventional rules of morality or law and hold themselves as a sovereign power trying to do some good in the world on their own terms. It's best made clear when Jimmy Woo had a bunch of fleeing Skrulls incinerated by M-11 that the team plays for keeps when it comes to taking down foes in most cases unless Venus is involved and even her presence is not a guarantee a foe will live. According to Norman Osborn, even Venus, the resident all-loving hero of the team, managed to rack up a body count during her time as a siren that would be equivalent to a casualty list from a small war.

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Randall Park (''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'') will appear in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo. Various businesses named Atlas have also appeared (for instance, across the hall from the Nelson & Murdock offices in ''Series/Daredevil''), and it's nice to think they're fronts for ''the'' Atlas.

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Randall Park (''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'') will appear in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo. Various businesses named Atlas have also appeared (for instance, across the hall from the Nelson & Murdock offices in ''Series/''Daredevil''), and it's nice to think they're fronts for ''the'' Atlas.

While there hasn't been a live-action adaption of this series to date, Randall Park (''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'') will appear in 2018's ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' as Jimmy Woo.

* {{Badass}}: The whole team.

* GoodRunningEvil
* {{Immortality}}:

* CharmPerson: Venus's central power; anyone who hears her voice will do anything to make her happy. Good thing she's the AllLovingHero type.

That was pretty much it for the next three decades, until editor Mark Paniccia stumbled across the "What If?" and decided to ask writer Jeff Parker what he'd do with the idea in the mainstream MarvelUniverse. The result was a six-issue miniseries called ''Agents of Atlas'' (October, 2006 -March, 2007).

Again, that pretty much seemed to be it for the Agents, although they made a couple of other appearances elsewhere in the MarvelUniverse.

'''Note''': Atlas Comics was the name Marvel went by for most of the '50s. All of the characters in ''Agents of Atlas'' were created during the Atlas Comics period, before the ComicBook/FantasticFour ushered in the modern MarvelUniverse.

* CaptainErsatz: The Yellow Claw is an Ersatz for Fu Manchu -- who later ended up becoming part of the MarvelUniverse himself. One of the cases where the original and the Ersatz share the same fictive space. They also share a universe with Iron Man villain The Mandarin. Their similar claimed backgrounds are explained by "[[TruthInTelevision Genghis Khan has lots of descendants.]]"

Then in mid-2008 came the news that the Agents would be getting their own ongoing series, kicking off in February 2009. Cue much {{Squee}} from the Agents' fans -- and a certain amount of cynicism, noting [[ScrewedByTheNetwork what usually happens with new series]]. This fate was semi-averted: the series wrapped up with #11, had a two-issue crossover with the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}, was installed in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' as a backup, got relaunched, then [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/13/jeff-parker-ken-hale-on-gorilla-man-the-end-of-agents-of-atlas/ got cancelled again]], with Parker calling quits at issue #5. There was also a three-issue miniseries for both Gorilla Man and the Uranian, and a one-shot for Namora.

Then in mid-2008 came the news that the Agents would be getting their own ongoing series, kicking off in February 2009. Cue much {{Squee}} from the Agents' fans -- and a certain amount of cynicism, noting [[ScrewedByTheNetwork what usually happens with new series]]. This fate was semi-averted: the series wrapped up with #11, had a two-issue crossover with the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}, was installed in ''IncredibleHercules'' as a backup, got relaunched, then [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/13/jeff-parker-ken-hale-on-gorilla-man-the-end-of-agents-of-atlas/ got cancelled again]], with Parker calling quits at issue #5. There was also a three-issue miniseries for both Gorilla Man and the Uranian, and a one-shot for Namora.

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Jimmy
** TheLancer: Ken
** TheSmartGuy: Bob
** TheBigGuy: M-11
** TheChick: Venus
** SixthRanger: Namora
** EleventhHourRanger: 3-D Man, added in the last incarnation of the title.

** ImmortalityInducer: Ken.
** CompleteImmortality: Venus.
** FromASingleCell: M-11.

* EvilCounterpart: Their Comicbook/DarkReign tie-in plays this up - Jimmy is a HeroWithBadPublicity that most think has done a FaceHeelTurn, and is using a formerly-evil organization to do good. Osborn is a VillainWithGoodPublicity that the public thinks has pulled a HeelFaceTurn but is really using the formerly-mostly-good organization SHIELD into the villainous HAMMER.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Jimmy is also Woo Yen Jet, and it turns out the Golden Claw's real name is [[spoiler: Plan Chu, so everybody addresses him as Master Plan.]]

* MeaningfulName: The Yellow Claw's true name is [[spoiler: Plan Chu, so everybody addresses him as ''Master Plan'']].

* CaptainErsatz: The Yellow Claw is an Ersatz for Fu Manchu -- who later ended up becoming part of the MarvelUniverse himself. One of the cases where the original and the Ersatz share the same fictive space. They also share a universe with Iron Man villain The Mandarin. Their similar claimed backgrounds are explained by "Genghis Khan has lots of descendants."

* {{Covers Always Lie}} Issue 3 of the regular series features the Agents fighting Captain America on the cover. Cap does show up, but not until the very last panel. The fight happens in the next issue.

* FiveManBand

* UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks

** TheAgeless / ImmortalityInducer: Ken.

* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: The Yellow Claw's true name is [[spoiler: Plan Chu, so everybody addresses him as ''Master Plan'']].

Back in the 1970s, Creator/MarvelComics published ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' #9, which asked "What If ComicBook/TheAvengers Had Formed In The [[TheFifties 1950s]]?", bringing together a team of Marvel's [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] heroes to rescue a kidnapped [[UsefulNotes/DwightDEisenhower President Eisenhower]].

* ComicBookTime: An unusual case, this: most of the Agents have been active in-universe at least since TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, but since most of them don't age as a human would, they still look much the same (allowing for updates, revisions, and so on). Jimmy is something of an exception: up until the mini, he aged pretty much in real time, then got rejuvenated back to his twenties.

* TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks

* MythologyGag: The title ''Agents of Atlas'' is a nod to Atlas Comics, Marvel's predecessor, as a homage to the team's [[TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] origins.