Atlantis/MU

Atlantis is a fictional location featured in comic book titles published by Marvel Comics. It is loosely based on the mythological Atlantis as first described by Plato in 360 BCE in his dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In various speculative fiction, Atlantis has been described as a continent, a country, a kingdom and a naval power. Native residents of Atlantis are called Atlanteans. The Marvel Universe version of Atlantis chronicles the tales of two different types of Atlanteans, the pre-Cataclysm surface dwellers that existed some 10,000 years ago, and the aquatic homo mermani of the modern era. The Marvel Universe version of Atlantis first appeared in April, 1939 in Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1