Atlas Des Empires Coloniaux Xixe Xxe Siècles

is a fictional superhero team in comic books published by Marvel Comics that enjoyed a series run of eleven issues when it was inexplicably canceled barely a week after the 11th issue release, perhaps due to flagging sales. It is composed of characters originally appearing in unrelated stories published in the 1950s by Marvel's predecessor company, Atlas Comics. The characters debuted as a team in the non-canonical (June 1978)--of course the complete What If? comics series has been previously posted by yours truly, --and starred in the limited series, (Oct. 2006 - March 2007), the latter written by Jeff Parker with art by Leonard Kirk. That limited series was set in the present day and in mainstream continuity. In February 4, 2009 Marvel released the first issue (cover date April 2009) of the ongoing series, launched as part of its current Dark Reign storyline and also written by Jeff Parker. In library terms the ongoing series would now be volume 2. The team, consisting of Gorilla-Man, Jimmy Woo, M-11, The Uranian, Namora and Venus, was one of the better-handled among ongoing Marvel titles and albeit admittedly a second-tier title, some had considered it to be the best among Marvel's superhero team titles at the time of its cancellation.

En juillet 1870, alors que la France de Napoléon III se prépare à la guerre, que les bataillons se regroupent et que les armes se chargent, une mystérieuse jeune femme fait un pacte avec la mort. La sorcellerie commence alors à se répandre sur un Paris assiégé en touchant particulièrement le pensionnat de Madame de Froidecoeur.

Au changement de siècle et de millénaire, subsistent sur la Terre deux immenses Empires qui s'opposent pour la suprématie du monde, séparés par la barrière montagneuse du Draj, dressée comme une ultime frontière.