T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents [smokebogey] [h33t]

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents is a team of comic book superheroes 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, as well as featuring some of the better artists of the day, notably Wally Wood. They first appeared in T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #1 (November 1965). The name is an acronym for \"The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves\".

Tower Comics were unusual for the time, being 25 cents when most comics were 12 cents, but they were thicker comics, usually featuring five or six independent stories, with all the main characters coming together for the final story of the issue.

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents was a bimonthly comic book published by Tower Comics. It ran 20 issues, from November 1965 to November 1969, plus two short-lived spin-off series starring the most popular super agents (Dynamo and NoMan). In the first volume of DC\'s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Archives, Robert Klein and Michael Uslan wrote that Tower publisher Harry Shorten \"cut a dream deal with Wally Wood\" in which Shorten would be the managing editor and \"Wood would be granted a wide latitude of creative and business freedom devoid of a 9 to 5 office job or hefty administrative duties and be allowed to concentrate on creating characters and concepts for an expanding line of superhero comics.\"

Following Tower Comics\' demise, 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 1983 under his JC Comics line, the last of which was published through Archie Comics\' Red Circle Comics line. In 1984, David Singer\'s Deluxe Comics published five issues of a new series, Wally Wood\'s T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, featuring some of the best artists of the era, including George Perez, Dave Cockrum, Keith Giffen, Murphy Anderson and Jerry Ordway. Singer, a former associate of Carbonaro, claimed the group was in the public domain, but a lawsuit by Carbonaro determined otherwise, ending with Deluxe Comics\' demise in 1986.

In the later 1980s, Solson Comics produced one issue of T.H.U.N.D.E.R., a planned four-issue series which was never completed. A second issue was almost done. This series was not quite set in the same universe as the original series and took the characters in a different direction.

In 1983, They appeared in Texas Comics, Justice Machine Annual #1, written by William Messner-Loebs, with art by Bill Reinhold, Jeff Dee and Bill Anderson.

Another revival was attempted by Carbonaro in OMNI Comics #3 (1995) but was never continued beyond that issue, though more work was completed.

This torrent contains all appearances of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, with the exception of Hall of Fame featuring the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #2, as it was never scanned.

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T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents [smokebogey] [h33t]