History
Created in Marvel Two-in-One #42 (August, 1978) by writer Ralph Macchio, Project: Pegasus was originally intended to research alternative (and unusual) forms of energy, but has also been used as a prison for super-powered individuals. The location of this facility is described as being in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.
The facility is remembered best in comics for "The Project Pegasus Saga" printed in Marvel Two-in-One #53-#58 (later collected as a trade paperback of the same title, co-written by Macchio and Mark Gruenwald with art by John Byrne and George Pérez). However, its recurring use as a prison for supervillains of the Marvel Universe has led to a number of comics stories in the following decades, significant among them an emergence of the Serpent Crown. Several Marvel characters have served terms working security at the facility, including The Thing, Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) and most recently Darkhawk. At one time it also served as a temporary home for the Squadron Supreme when they were exiled from their own universe.
Project Pegasus also seems to possess vast knowledge of other realities in the Marvel Multiverse, ranging from alternate futures to parallel universes, as shown in the in-Marvel Earth-616 continuity files after the Sentry arc of the New Avengers, naming them by the official names Marvel use. One rogue Project Pegasus scientist tested various energy sources on himself. As a result, the scientist was turned into a rapidly expanding being who destroyed numerous universes until being stopped by the original Squadron Supreme .
During the Dark Reign storyline, Norman Osborn has Project Pegasus shut down. However, it became reactivated in the aftermath of the War of Kings, due to the opening of the time-space tear called the Fault. Loki later freed Absorbing Man from Project Pegasus.
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