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
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.
