Frederick Duncan (Earth-616)

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Frederick Amos Duncan

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Real Name

Frederick Amos Duncan

Aliases

Fred Duncan

Identity

Public

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of Special Affairs

Universe

Earth-616

Characteristics

Gender

Male

Eyes

Blue

Hair

White

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Security consultant; Former agent for the FBI

Origin

Origin

Creators

Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

First appearance

X-Men Vol 1 #2^[1], X-Men Vol 1 #38 secondary story^[2]

History

Fred Duncan was an FBI agent. After an incident in Manhattan involving a man reputedly capable of firing beams of force from his eyes, Duncan was assigned to locate the individual responsible. Charles Xavier also became aware of the incident, and met with Fred Duncan. Fred allowed Xavier to pursue the matter on his own. Xavier ultimately found and rescued Scott Summers, and started his School for Gifted Youngsters shortly thereafter.^[3]

After the X-Men became active, Fred Duncan became the team's FBI liaison.^[4] He alerted Xavier when the X-Men were needed by the government, as was the case when dealing with the threat of the Vanisher. Later, it was Agent Duncan who brought the X-Men the news that the FBI had ordered the team to break up following the apparent death of Professor X.^[5]

When mutant hysteria began running rampant and Project Wideawake was being developed, Fred Duncan was brought in because of his knowledge of mutant activities. When the government's computer records of the X-Men were wiped out, Duncan informed Henry Gyrich that the originals had long been shredded and claimed that his own memory was too unreliable to be used to rebuild the files. As Gyrich grew enraged, Duncan handed in his resignation.

Duncan later took up a career as a security consultant and began working on a novel that would expose the government's mishandling of the anti-mutant hysteria.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

None known.

Abilities

None known.

Strength level

Unknown.

Weaknesses

None known.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

The idea of the X-Men having an official government liaison was downplayed when the series moved in a more paranoid direction.

Trivia

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