Agent Axis
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Agent Axis is the name of three fictional comic book supervillains, two from DC Comics and the other from Marvel Comics.
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[edit] DC Comics
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Boy Commandos #1 (Winter 1942) |
| Created by | Jack Kirby Joe Simon |
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| Notable aliases | Sigrid |
| Abilities | None |
[edit] Boy Commandos
The first Agent Axis is a Nazi spy and foe of the Boy Commandos in DC Comics. She appears in issues # 1 and 3 of Boy Commandos comics; the stories were reprinted in 1971 in issues #6 and 7 of Mister Miracle.
In one appearance, she lays a trap by approaching the team as 'Sigrid' and claiming that Agent Axis is after her. The team believes her story and promises to protect her. After some time of nothing happening, they find that Nazi forces have ransacked their headquarters. They also find a note claiming Sigrid had been kidnapped.
Clues lead the Boy Commandos to the Radcliffe Estate, where the Nazis spring a trap and capture the young heroes. Rip, the team's leader, had suspected something and brought reinforcements of his own. The Boy Commandos manage to escape and turn the tables on their assailants. All but Sigrid are captured.
[edit] World's Finest Team
| Agent Axis | |
 Agent Axis (DC Comics). Art by Jim Aparo. |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | World's Finest Comics #250 (April/May 1978) |
| Created by | Gerry Conway (script) Jim Aparo (pencils) |
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| Abilities | None |
The third Agent Axis first appeared in World's Finest Comics #250 (April/May 1979), and was created by Gerry Conway. He is a foe of the World's Finest Team: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow and Black Canary. The heroes travel to Earth-One in the year 1942 to repair damages to the time stream caused by Ravager, a being with the abiltiy to travel through time. Agent Axis is a Nazi agent who kills Professor Ronsom, an American scientist working on a time travelling device. He later joines forces with the Ravager in order to bring the secrets of time travel to Nazi Germany. During a battle in Bavaria the World's Finest team manages to activate the chronal transponder near the Ravager, returning the heroes to their proper time and place with no memory of the prior events. Presumably agent Axis is also returned to his correct place and time.[1].
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 Agent Axis (Marvel Comics). Art by Frank Robbins. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | The Invaders Annual #1 (1977) |
| Created by | Roy Thomas (script) Frank Robbins (pencils) |
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| Full name | Hiroyuki Kanegawa, Aldo Malvagio, and Berthold Volker |
| Notable aliases | Pterorist |
| Abilities | Strength of three men. |
[edit] Marvel Comics
The second Agent Axis was created by Roy Thomas as a foe of his World War II-era superhero team The Invaders; his first appearance was in The Invaders Annual #1 (1977). Agent Axis was created when a freak lightning storm merged the bodies of three Axis agents (Hiroyuki Kanegawa, a Japanese agent; Aldo Malvagio, an Italian agent; and Berthold Volker, a Nazi agent) into one body. The accident gave Agent Axis the strength of three men and ability to speak Japanese, Italian and German, but also left his mind in a fractured state. He fought the Invaders several times during their series.
Agent Axis reappears after the war in Marvel Comics Presents #34 (November 1989). Former Invaders member the Thin Man, after discovering that Agent Axis was responsible for killing all the inhabitants of the village of Kalahia, spends the next several decades hunting for the former Nazi agent. In the 1980s, the Thin Man tracks down Agent Axis to America, where he has been given sanctuary by the CIA. The Thin Man enlists the aid of his former ally Captain America to help bring Agent Axis to justice. When Agent Axis brags to the Thin Man that he is under protection of the US Government and can not be brought to trial, the enraged Thin Man suffocates Agent Axis with his pliable body. Captain America later hands the Thin Man over to the authorities.
In the 2004 New Invaders miniseries, the soul of Agent Axis is revealed to have been used as the genetic template for producing the Pterorists clones.
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- ^ World's Finest Comics #250 (DC Comics, 1978)
