Landau, Luckman, and Lake
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Marvel Comics |
First appearance | Wolverine #5 (March 1989) |
Created by | Chris Claremont |
In-story information | |
Type of business | Holding company |
Landau, Luckman, and Lake or LLL is a fictional holding company appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, particularly in the pages of the Wolverine, Uncanny X-Men and Deadpool comic books. Created by writer Chris Claremont, the company was first mentioned in Wolverine #5 (March 1989).[1]
Claremont based the name of the organization on the original owners of the
Overview
Although Landau, Luckman, and Lake is an intergalactic holding company which oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies such as a law firm of the same name, it is in reality a front organization for a private espionage contractor which, in turn, is controlled by a cabal conspiring to "immanentize the eschaton". Some of these companies provide cover, plausible occupations and means of income, for its covert agents. LLL is made up of a diverse mixture of personnel, drawn from intelligence or fringe scientific backgrounds. It possesses a precognitive department and interdimensional teleportation technology which makes its foresight and reach beyond imagination.[3]
As a vast,
Employee roster
Current roster
- Landau, Luckman, and Lake (first names all unknown). Senior partners at LLL.
Notable former employees
- Captain America. Agent [4]
- Chang - Agent. Killed in Wolverine #5.
- Deadpool - Agent
- Emmett - Office boy, only survivor of an attack by Chimera.
- Emmett - Agent. Helped Wolverine and Venom fight Chimera and Dirtnap.
- Gerry - Gerry Lequarre, senior partner, the "Fourth L" of LLL
- Zoe Culloden - Agent, Expediter and former Overboss
- Overboss Dixon - Head of the Mithras Directive
- Noah DuBois - Telepathic agent
- Mikitan - Agent
- Montgomery - Montgomery Burns, precognitive agent.
- Wolverine - Agent
- Rose Wu - Also known as Rose Carling. Scientist and engineer specializing in interdimensional teleportation technology. Minor shapeshifting abilities. Murdered by enemies of Wolverine. [5]
Notes
- ^ Wolverine vol.1 #5, 1989
- ^ Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #148, Comic Book Resources, March 27, 2008
- ^ a b Deadpool 3rd series #31, 1999
- ^ Deadpool #25, 1998
- ^ "Wolverine" Vol. 2 #98 (Feb 1996)
References
- Landau, Luckman, and Lake at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)