Showing posts with label British Agent 99. Show all posts
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Thursday, September 09, 2021

ALAN DOUGLAS

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Alan Douglas 
OCCUPATION: Secret agent, adventurer 
IDENTITY: Secret 
CLASS: Normal Human 
LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of United Kingdom 
OTHER ALIASES: NA 
PLACE OF BIRTH: Haarnbiu, Wales (UK) 
MARITAL STATUS: NA 
KNOWN RELATIVES: Arthur Douglas (father -deceased-) 
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: MI6, The Vanguard 
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Mobile 
FIRST APPEARANCE: Pocket Comics #1 (Aug. 1941) 

HEIGHT: 6' 0" 
WEIGHT: 168 lbs 
EYES: Blue 
HAIR: Black 

HISTORY
 

The man known as British Agent 99 was british citizen and film actor Alan Douglas. 

Alan was a famous star in America, but when he receives the news of the death of his father, General Arthur Douglas, in World War I, he returns to London to serve his country. Douglas enlists in the British Secret Service where he is codenamed Agent 99. Douglas conducts espionage missions behind enemy lines, in the Ottoman region and the Balkans, as well as in the newly formed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Back in the United States, he dismantles a network of German saboteurs in Los Angeles. During that mission he collaborates with Black Spider and Domino Lady. They will soon be joined by Lee Granger (the Lord of the Jungle), John Aman (the mystical Green Mist) and Cosmo Mann (Scientific Genius and Aviator). 

The six will form The Vanguard, a secret cabal with the mission to protect the World. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

Alan Douglas was an all-round athlete; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife-thrower, a master of disguise and was fluent in several foreign languages.