V-Battalion
| V-Battalion | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
Comedy Comics #9 (1942) (Golden Age) Thunderbolts vol. 1 #27 (1999) (modern age) |
| In-story information | |
| Type of organization | Freedom fighters |
| Agent(s) |
Betty Barstow Paulette Brazee Fred Davis Jr. Destroyer Brian Falsworth Jacqueline Falsworth-Crichton Madelyn Joyce Frank Robert Frank Robert Frank, Jr. Helmut Grueler Thomas Halloway Jim Hammond Irene Martinez Isadora Martinez Darren Mitchell Davy Mitchell Rebel Ralston Dallas Riordan Gwenny Lou Sabuki Hjiri "Sam" Sabuki Ameiko Sabuki John Watkins Sr. |
The V-Battalion is the name of two incarnations of a fictional secret organization composed of Golden Age superheroes and their descendents appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The organization featured prominently in the original Thunderbolts series and The New Invaders.
There have been two limited series prominently featuring the V-Battalion, Citizen V and the V-Battalion and Citizen V and the V-Battalion: The Everlasting
The group was originally a British agency formed in World War II to fight Nazis. The lead agent of the organization was John Watkins. However, in his superhero alter-ego, Citizen V, he was strangled to death by Heinrich Zemo. In time Heinrich hunted down and murdered most if not all of the original organization. Citizen V's pregnant lover Paulette Brazee was kept in hiding to protect her and her unborn child. She would later give birth to a son named John (JJ) Watkins, Jr. and marry a soldier she met in Europe. In time both Paulette and JJ took up the mantle as Citizen V as well as JJ's son John Watkins III.
With the original organization destroyed, a group of Golden Age heroes choose to reconstitute the group, including Roger Aubrey (the Destroyer), Betty Barstow (Silver Scorpion), and Helmut Grueler (Iron Cross). The organization operated out of the Symkaria and one of their primary missions was to hunt down Nazi war criminals.
The V Battalion remained a secret organization for many decades. When the Thunderbolts came onto the scene the V Battalion was interested in the fact that there was a new Citizen V claiming to be the previously unknown grandson of the original Citizen V. The V Battalion used a mole named Miles Warton (aka Miles Warbeck) that it had placed in the New York City mayor's office. The NYC mayor had appointed Dallas Riordan to be the Thunderbolts liaison (the mayor wanted to be closely affiliated with the new superheroes after the supposed deaths of the Avengers and Fantastic Four). Miles's job was to monitor Dallas. Dallas's paternal grandfather was a soldier in the US military who stayed in Europe after the end of World War II. He was an early member of the reconstituted V Battalion who was killed. This family history and Dallas's training as a cop and soldier are the reasons why Dallas was eventually recruited to be Citizen V.
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