Characters
Some of the characters, including Brother Voodoo, and Gorilla-Man were pre-existing human characters from Marvel's superhero and supernatural comics. Others, such as Goom, Grogg and Groot, were monsters from pre-superhero Marvel science fiction/fantasy anthology comics of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Others were newly created or new versions of existing characters.
The seven primary characters are:
- Clay Quartermain, the commanding officer of Area 13. He takes over in the first issue from Dum Dum Dugan.
- Warwolf (real name Vince Marcus), the field leader. He is a werewolf who can transform voluntarily whenever Mars is in the night sky.
- Nina Price, a half-vampire and half-werewolf.
- N'Kantu, the Living Mummy a previously existing character. N'Kantu is an undead prince of Ancient Egypt.
- Frankenstein, an intelligent clone of the original Frankenstein's Monster. How this process didn't produce different clones of the various individual body parts making up the original monster was briefly mentioned in issue #1. The response was, "Don't go there".
- Gorilla-Man, a previously existing character. Kenneth Hale is a man trapped in a gorilla's body. He is now a member of the Agents of Atlas.
- John Doe, a zombie. He is depicted as having normal human-level intelligence, in contrast to other zombie characters in the Marvel universe.
The main antagonists are:
- Merlin, a powerful magician claiming to be the true Merlin.
- Tilesti of the Folk is a Faerie and Merlin's second-in-command
Supporting characters include:
- Bradley Beemer, Area 13's Tech Chief. Beemer is in charge of research and development.
- Glob
- Brother Voodoo
- Grogg, along with pilot Buzz McMahon
- Groot
- Hellstorm (Daimon Hellstrom)
- Lilith (Lilith Dracul)
Other characters include:
- Sasquatch, described in issue #2 as the actual folkloric Sasquatch, and not specifically connected to the superhero Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski) or to the race of Sasquatches revealed in the series Alpha Flight vol. 2.
- Abominable Snowman, similarly described in that issue as the actual folkloric Abominable Snowman, and not specifically connected to other Marvel characters named Abominable Snowman. It wasn't confirmed if this Abominable Snowman was Carl Hanson or a different Abominable Snowman
- Goom, a pre-existing monster from "pre-superhero Marvel", seen briefly at the beginning of issue #3.
- Dragoom, issue #6.
- Jonathan Pryce
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