T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents Archives Vol. 2 (Thunder Agents)

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Summary: Wally Wood Challenges Marvel
Review: TOWER Comics is all but forgotten but for one brief shining moment they produced some great stories

THUNDER Agents were part of the spy craze of the 1960's with a super heroe twist.

Tired of the main stream and not quite into the underground Wally Wood with several of the biggest names in comics (Steve Ditko,Dan Adkins, Reed Crandall, Gil Kane and Mike Sekowsky) wrote and drew these stories. The Marvel Influence could be felt in these stories in the sense that the characters had their ups and downs, such as THUNDER Agent Lightning dying a bit every time he put on the suit that gave him super speed.

Yet there was time for fun, DC, style stories like the last one in the volume where THUNDER Agent Weed is helped by Dynamo ala Superman into believing he has super powers.

Another great story is "To Be Or Not To Be" where the android NOMAN struggles with his lack of humanity. He is a human itellegence trapped in an artificial body that can never feel love the way a human can.

Well worth it for reading some silver age stories that are less well known (but equal in quality) as compared with the Marvel line of comics of that era.