They were an arm of the United Nations and were notable for their depiction of the heroes as everyday people whose heroic careers were merely their day jobs.

[1] The team name is an acronym for The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves.

It ran for 20 issues (Nov. 1965 – Nov. 1969), plus two short-lived spin-off series starring the most popular super agents (Dynamo and No-Man).

[citation needed] With a few changes by Wood and a title obviously inspired by the success of the spy-fi television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

[5] Meanwhile, in the UK, L. Miller & Son, Ltd., and some of its successors published large monthly compendiums of uncolored American superhero comics up until the 1980s, often reproducing T.H.U.N.D.E.R.

In 1984, David M. Singer's Deluxe Comics began publishing a new series, Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R.

Agents, featuring some of the best artists of the era, including George Pérez, Dave Cockrum, Keith Giffen, Murphy Anderson, Steve Ditko, Rich Buckler, and Jerry Ordway.

Deluxe Comics closed its doors in 1986 when several major distributors failed to pay sizeable past-due invoices.

Agents, and advanced Dave Cockrum money to illustrate the series through Liefeld's Extreme Studios.

Agents series appeared in Extreme Studios and Maximum Press books cover-dated February 1996, indicating that the series would feature "stories by Rob Liefeld, Jim Valentino, Stephen Platt, Chap Yaep and Dan Fraga".

[5] Work for about two issues of a new series was completed, but Carbonaro put a stop to it as it made radical alterations to the characters.

A new series began publishing in November 2010 with a creative team of writer Nick Spencer and artist CAFU.

United Nations soldiers storm a mountain laboratory of a UN scientist, Professor Emil Jennings, driving off the forces of the Warlord.

The scientist dies, but leaves behind several inventions — super weapons to combat the Warlord's worldwide attacks.

Leonard Brown is given the Thunder Belt, which makes him super strong and invulnerable for a short amount of time, and is code-named Dynamo.

This team included Virgil "Guy" Gilbert, Dynamite (Daniel John Adkins), William "Weed" Wylie, Kathryn "Kitten" Kane, and James "Egghead" Andor.

(Secret People's International Directorate for Extralegal Revenue), the main villains for the rest of the series.

Other menaces included the Iron Maiden, an armored mastermind (introduced in issue #1 as a possible love interest for Dynamo) who worked for the Subterraneans; Andor, a fast-healing telekinetic superhuman created by the Subterraneans who was introduced in Dynamo #1; along with Red Star (a Communist menace) and others.

New versions of Lightning and Dynamo are recruited, and the original No-Man, who had left the team because he was losing his humanity, was replaced.

When he attempts to use the Menthor helmet to gain the Raven's secrets however, he regains the "Toby" personality, similar to the effect that it had on Janus.

Brown wears the Dynamo belt one last time in exchange for his daughter and the Iron Maiden's life and apparently dies during the mission.

Years later, Colleen tracks down the Iron Maiden and after extracting information from her with the help of Toby Heston, leaves her to be killed by the daughter of one of her former victims.