The Agents of Atlas first appeared as the 1950s Avengers on Earth-9904. On the mainstream Earth Jimmy Woo, a SHIELD agent, formed them to save President Eisenhower fom an enemy known as Yellow Claw. He then reformed them to investigate the organization called Atlas Foundation. It was revealed Yellow Claw had posed as Woo's enemy to train him, having long ago chosen him as his heir to Genghis Khan. Woo accepted his position and, with his old friends, use Atlas Foundation as a force of good.