Aladdin was a fictional government organization from Malibu Comics

Malibu Comics

Malibu Comics was an American comic book publisher active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for its Ultraverse line of superhero titles. The company's headquarters was in Calabasas, California. Malibu imprints included Aircel Comics and Eternity Comics...

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Ultraverse

The Ultraverse was the name given to a comic book imprint published by the American company Malibu Comics. The Ultraverse was a shared universe in which a variety of characters — known within the comics as "Ultras" — acquired super-human abilities.-History:...

 imprint.

Overview

Aladdin was a U.S. government agency apparently founded sometime in the 1960s to deal with the growing number of Ultras (super-powered beings) in their world. 1n 1970, their scientific division, using a synthesis of organic brain tissue and computer systems called G.E.N.I.E.  (Genetically Engineered Neural Intelligence Experiment) were examining alien technology and corpses discovered by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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, when some unknown event caused the corpses to release a cloud of material which caused G.E.N.I.E. to develop sentience

Sentience

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 and grow into a true fusion of organic and mechanical technology.

The newly upgraded G.E.N.I.E. also contained information from the alien lifeforms/technology it had assimilated. It told the Aladdin scientists of a cosmic force called Shu-Ji, a nearly Godlike power to alter reality; but attempts to access this force by human beings proved dangerously unsuccessful. G.E.N.I.E. decided to genetically engineer the proper recepticals for the Shu-Ji: two human males, each holding a fraction of the power. However, the power could not be fully controlled until they matured, and so it was decided to raise the boys separately, and keep them unaware of their true natures.

At the age of eighteen, Aladdin tried to take custody of the two, only to see them taken away by the creature called Rune

Rune (comics)

Rune is a fictional vampire-like being from Malibu Comics' Ultraverse imprint. He was created by Barry Windsor-Smith and Chris Ulm, and first appeared as a back-up story in Sludge #1 .-Fictional character biography:...

, who coveted their power for himself. The two came into contact, and merged into a vastly powerful being called Gemini, who easily escaped custody. Aladdin and G.E.N.I.E. have created another pair of embryos, to repeat the project in another 18 years.

Aladdin in more recent years has been portrayed as a ruthless organization that believes a war between Ultras and normal humans is inevitable, and to that end recruits, drafts and blackmails as many Ultras to work for them as they can, and also perform experiments on Ultra DNA, with the goals of enhancing Ultra powers, making Ultras easier to control or defeat, and to try to bestow Ultra powers on ordinary humans. They utilize forces such as the Aladdin Assault Squad to enforce their will, and do not hesitate to utilize excessively violent methods and individuals. Aladdin also keeps careful track of the activities of every known Ultra on Earth.

Aladdin's Goals

• To actively seek out Ultras in order to learn to access and replicate their abilities
• To continually monitor Ultra activity and to keep records of known Ultras and the development of their powers
• To convince Ultras to join Aladdin and to use them for government missions that were too dangerous for normal humans
• To assess the Ultra situation in America and to develop new ways to keep Ultras under control
• To capture, restrain and/or terminate potentially dangerous Ultras
• To discover and explore uses for alien and Ultra-based technologies
• To create new forms of genetically-engineered Ultra-lifeforms and to find new ways to instill Ultra abilities into normal humans

Staff

• Jake Alexander
• Serena Ashkenaz (Serena)
• Richard Carruthers
• Dr. Raj Dalmas
• Ian Holman
• Antony Jenkins
• Robert "Bob" Kendall
• Nigel Malek (agent)
• Dr. Duncan Murphy
• Nick Snowden

Former employees

• Dr. Vincent Esquida - Killed by Colonel Carpenter
• Grant Landscomb - killed
• Robert Mathers - killed

Agents

• Aladdin Assault Squad
• Larry Pryce (Headknocker)
  Headknocker (comics)
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• The Radicals - former trainees of Wrath,
  • Caroline Albright
  • Marty Boam
  • Shawn Marcus
• Bob Campbell (Ranger)
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• Brittany Chien (Shuriken)
• Thomas Hunter (Wrath)
• Adam Tunney (Wrath)

Known Base Locations

• Groom Lake, Nevada
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Los Angeles, California
• Mesa Flats, Arizona
• Rocky Mountains
• Scottsdale, Arizona