Commission on Superhuman Activities

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Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Captain America #331 (1987)
Created by	Mark Gruewald
In story information
Type of organization	Government oversight
Base(s)	White House, Washington, D.C.
Leader(s)	President of USA

The Commission on Superhuman Activities (also known as the Commission on Superhuman Affairs or CSA for short) is a fictional government group from the Marvel Universe. They first appeared in Captain America #331 (1987).

The organization was created by the President of the United States of America. It's a very special appointed task force, which has been requested to supervise the American citizens possessing superhuman powers and coordinate government projects aimed at creating government controlled superhumans. They have an office set in Washington, DC. A number of members of the Commission when created were involved with various government projects regarding superhumans: Project Wideawake, former and current Avengers liaisons, Freedom Force liaison and super soldier projects.

The organization is best known for its failed attempt to train John Walker into becoming the new Captain America.

The team, Freedom Force, was the primary operational unit until injures depleted the team. X-Factor was formed from various X-Men related mutants to replace Freedom Force. ^[1]

Recently, the organization has started to appear again in the pages of the Thunderbolts. It has been revealed to be responsible for Conrad Josten to become Smuggler and for Josten to get attached to the Darkforce dimension. The Commission also recently set up the Thunderbolts into fighting the New Avengers, as they didn't trust the group at first. But now, the Commission has once again joined forces with both the Thunderbolts and the Avengers in the hope to round up all the escaped villains that escaped during the breakout^[2].

Contents 1 Members of the Commission 2 Other employees 3 Heroes/villains the Commission hired so far 4 Other intelligence agencies 5 References

[edit] Members of the Commission

Commissioner	1st Appearance	Joined (1st as Commissioner)	Notes
Valerie Cooper	Uncanny X-Men #176 (Dec 1983)	Captain America #331 (July 1987)	liaison, Freedom Force & X-Factor; 2nd Chair
Henry Peter Gyrich	Avengers Vol. 1 #165 (February 1978)	Captain America #331 (July 1987)	former Liaison, Avenger; Project Wideawake; 3rd chair; Current Secretary of Super Human Forces
General Lewis Haywerth	Daredevil #232	Captain America #331 (July 1987)	commanding officer for Nuke and GI Max; directed the transformation of John Walker from Captain America to USAgent
George Mathers	Captain America #331	Captain America #331
Douglas Rockwell	Captain America #331	Captain America #331	original chair; agent of the Red Skull (Johann Schmidt), killed by Red Skull’s Dust of Death when their plans began to fall apartM[3]
Adrain Sammish	Captain America #331	Captain America #331	coordinator of field activities for Captain America (Walker) and Bucky (Hoskins)
Orville Sanderson	Captain America #331	Captain America #331
Raymond Sikorsky	Avengers #235	Captain America #331	liason, Avengers
General Brandon Halstan	Captain America #332	Captain America #332
Martin Farrow	Captain America #347	Captain America #347
Wesley Werner	Captain America #347	Captain America #347
General Yancy Standish	Nomad vol. 2 #1	Nomad vol. 2 #1
Agent Alexis Hafner	Cable & Deadpool #30	Cable & Deadpool #30
Anne Marie Hoag	[issue # needed]
Dallas Riordan	Thunderbolts vol. 1 #1 (1997)	[issue # needed]	former New York City Liaison with Thunderbolts
Mr. Yates	[issue # needed]	[issue # needed]
Baron Helmut Zemo	[issue # needed]	[issue # needed]	former member
Jack Kubrick	X-51 #1	X-51 #1	former member

[edit] Other employees

• Bill Watts^[4] - delivery man
• Mike Clemson^[5] - also a member of the Conclave
• Barney Fiddler^[6]
• Roberto Fields^[7] - field agent, wore armored battlesuit against Juston Seyfert's Sentinel
• Lou Goode^[8]
• MacKenzie Hallows^{[issue # needed]}
• Dr. Carter Napier^[9] - empowered Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter) and Deathweb, killed by Deathweb^[10]
• Brian Rinehart^[11] - secretly a mutant, investigated Juston Seyfert’s Sentinel and led group of armored agents against it. He sacrificed himself to incapacitate the Sentinel^[12]
• Andrea Sterman^[13] - paranormal psychologist, investigated Roxxon’s use of Windshear’s power to murder Bobbie Haggert and was later forced to observe and record exploits of V Battalion
• Denver Walsh^[14] - field agent, took charge of investigation of Juston Seyfert's Sentinel after Brian Rinehart's death
• Miles Warton (Warbeck)^[15] - also a member of the V Battalion, was the liaison to the Redeemers, previously served in New York mayor’s office as Miles Warbeck

[edit] Heroes/villains the Commission hired so far

• Fixer^{[issue # needed]}
• Beetle (Abner Jenkins)^{[issue # needed]}
• Mr. Fantastic^{[issue # needed]}
• Radioactive Man^{[issue # needed]}
• Yellowjacket (Henry Pym)^{[issue # needed]}
• Blizzard^{[issue # needed]}
• Destructon^{[issue # needed]}
• Bucky (Lemar Hoskins)^{[issue # needed]}
• Carol Danvers (Warbird/Ms Marvel), as liaison to the Office of Homeland Security^{[issue # needed]}
• Captain America (John Walker)^{[issue # needed]}
• Freedom Force^{[issue # needed]}
  • Avalanche
  • Blob
  • Crimson Commando
  • Destiny
  • Mystique
  • Pyro
  • Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter)
  • Spiral
  • Stonewall
  • Super Sabre
• Juggernaut^{[issue # needed]}
• Redeemers^{[issue # needed]}
  • Beetle
  • Charcoal
  • Citizen V
  • Fixer
  • Jolt
  • Meteorite
  • Scream
  • Smuggler
• Scourge/Nomad (Jack Monroe)^{[issue # needed]}
• Superhuman Tactical Response Squad (S.T.A.R.S.)^[16] - controls all aspects of superhuman crime and imprisonment
  • Allie Magruder
  • Farley Moway
  • Frisco Pike
  • USAgent
  • Kali Vries
• Death Web^[17]
  • Antro
  • Arachne
  • Therak

[edit] Other intelligence agencies

See also: List of government agencies in comics

[edit] References