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Agent Axis is the name of two fictional comic book supervillains, one from DC Comics and the other from Marvel Comics.
DC Comics
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The first Agent Axis was a Nazi spy and foe of the Boy Commandos in DC Comics. She appeared in issues # 1 and 3 of Boy Commandos comics; the stories were reprinted in 1971 in issues #6 and 7 of Mister Miracle.
In one appearance, she lays a trap by approaching the team as 'Sigrid' and claiming that Agent Axis is after her. The team falls for this and promises to protect her. After some time of nothing happening, they find that Nazi forces have ransacked their headquarters. They find a note claiming Sigrid had been kidnapped.
Clues lead to the Radcliffe Estate, where the Nazis spring a trap. Rip, the team's leader, had suspected something and brought reinforcements of his own. All but Sigrid were captured.
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Marvel Comics
The second Agent Axis was created by Roy Thomas as a foe of his World War II-era superhero team The Invaders; his first appearance was in The Invaders Annual #1 (1977). Agent Axis was created when a freak lightning storm merged the bodies of three Axis agents (Hiroyuki Kanegawa, a Japanese agent; Aldo Malvagio, an Italian agent; and Berthold Volker, a Nazi agent) into one body. The accident gave Agent Axis the strength of three men and ability to speak Japanese, Italian and German, but also left his mind in a fractured state. He fought the Invaders several times during their series.
Agent Axis reappears after the war in Marvel Comics Presents #34 (November 1989). Former Invaders member the Thin Man, after discovering that Agent Axis was responsible for killing all the inhabitants of the village of Kalahia, spends the next several decades hunting for the former Nazi agent. In the 1980s, the Thin Man tracks down Agent Axis to America, where he has been given sanctuary by the CIA. The Thin Man enlists the aid of his former ally Captain America to help bring Agent Axis to justice. When Agent Axis brags to the Thin Man that he is under protection of the US Government and can not be brought to trial, the enraged Thin Man suffocates Agent Axis with his pliable body. Captain America later hands the Thin Man over to the authorities.
In the 2004 New Invaders miniseries, the soul of Agent Axis is revealed to have been used as the genetic template for producing the Pterorists clones.
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