From: rjw@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Robert Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Project: Pegasus
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:31:49 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)

In article <11152@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
>In article <167C313817.REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer) writes:
>>Just for kicks, I picked up issue #8 of Dazzler, and found her kidnapped by
>>an energy research project called Pegasus.  Has this group been portrayed
>>elsewhere, and have any other Marvel characters been involved with them?
>
>	Yeah, it used to show up all the time.  Pegasus was actually
>an acronym for something (something about Potential Energy....).  

"U" and "S" stood for "United" and "States".  I think "A" and "S" may
have stood for "Alternate Sources", but I'm not sure.

>It was a generic super-scientific organization for Marvel.  (Sorta
>like STAR in DC.)  They used to show up all the time.  Quasar was
>the security chief until a Marvel Team Up annual where he got possessed
>by the Serpent Crown.  The Guardsman was the next securty chief, and
>I haven't seen them sense.

Ah, but the first superhero security chief was The Thing.  Yes, old Ben
Grimm, when he was in Marvel Two-In-One took a stint making money for
a change.  Quasar was there at the time and kept referring to Ben as
"Mr. Grimm".  Sigh.  He used to be such a nice, polite young boy.

PEGASUS was a research place, and also a lock-up place.  They kept 
super-powerful objects there, like the Serpent Crown and the Cosmic
Cube.  They also kept super-powered beings there like Klaw, Nuklo
(anybody remember him?) and Wundarr ("Aquarian" after he communed
with the Cosmic Cube for a bit).

I think Bill Foster was tied up with them for awhile, though I'm not
sure in all of what capacities.  He was Black Goliath originally, and
went though a bunch of incarnations.

Marvel Two-In-One is really the place to look for these things.

>>Also, Dazzler seemed to be falling for the project's security chief, Quasar.
>>Has this plotline ever been explored?
>	
>	Possibly. Dazz had a lot of boyfriends in her own comic. 
>(... the lawyer who got her off when she accidentally absorbed Klaw...)

I'm not even going to *touch* that line.  :-)

The other thing that I seem to remember about PEGASUS is that it was
a spin-off organization of SHIELD.  I'm not sure about this.  The way
it works, as far as I'm concerned, is this way: SHIELD used to go up
against both Hydra (spy organization) and AIM ("Advanced Idea Mechanics",
an evil research organization responsible for MODOK and the Cosmic Cube,
among other things).  Well, PEGASUS sorta took over as the anti-AIM.

PEGASUS had this dual role as lock-up and research institute, and also
a dual-role as "The hope of the future" and "A corrupt pit of evil
scientists, mostly looking out for their own good."

Oh, Squadron Supreme fans will want to take note: in the limited series
where the Hyperion from another dimension (the Marvel main dimension)
is picked up from the equivalent of the Phantom Zone, he was sent there
trying to follow Thundra, who had stolen a projector from PEGASUS.

Comic collection is in NYC, or I'd give more examples.  This is all
from memory.

-Robert
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