Pantheon’s leader, Agamemnon, resides deep within the bowels of The Mount and uses a holographic image to communicate with those who are aiding him in his dream. He neither claims nor denies that he is the Agamemnon, King of Argos and commander-in-chief of the Greek army against Troy. He does claim immortality, as his mother was an Earth woman and his father a god. The Agamemnon of antiquity was both the paternal great-grandson of Tantalus (a son of Zeus) and maternal great-great-grandson of Ares. He also claims to have assumed dozens of identities and have fathered hundreds of children. Agamemnon of Argos fathered one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra, and Chrysothemis, before his death at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra and/or his nephew Aegisthus.

Shortly after Bruce Banner was cured by Dr. Samson, Pantheon showed up to recruit the new Hulk to its cause. Through a series of misunderstandings this recruitment visit escalated into a street fight in which Banner finally allowed himself to be captured so he could learn more about this group and ultimately put an end to their activities. Once at The Mount, Banner met Agamemnon and after observing their operation for a while, was persuaded to join Pantheon. Banner’s first official mission for Pantheon was to keep an eye on actress and recent Soviet emigre Nadia Dornova who was starring on Broadway in “Metamorphosis.” Dornova was once married to Emil Blonsky, a.k.a. the Abomination. When one of Pantheon’s field operatives reported that she was being stalked by a mysterious bruiser, Pantheon rightly figured the Hulk was the man for the job. Banner and Rick Jones were watching Dornova’s performance and waiting for the Abomination to show on the night when half of the Earth’s population vanished.

During the mass panic which ensued after half of the audience disappeared, Nadia ended up lying unconscious at the feet of the Abomination. The Abomination took this as a sign from God and took her in the sewers with him for her own protection. The Hulk pursued Nadia and the Abomination into the sewers. During their brief battle, the Hulk was sucked through a portal into the Vortex. The Abomination was convinced that this was also a sign from God, that what he was doing was right. The Abomination’s plan was to tell his wife that he had not died as she thought, but had been changed into the monster she saw be fore her. It was his hope that she would still love him.

The Hulk returned from his trip to the Vortex—but in a diminutive form. He managed to convince the Abomination that it was better for his wife to remember him as the brave, handsome husband she loved. The Abomination, in a rare moment of sanity, returned Nadia to her apartment unharmed.

Banner’s second Pantheon mission was to travel to Israel and bring both Achilles and the young boy Max Meers back to Pantheon headquarters. Banner was accompanied on this mission by his sidekick Rick Jones. They were told that Achilles’s original mission had been a similar one: to convince the boy’s parents that the best place for their son was with Pantheon. In attempting to kill the boy, Achilles had turned rogue. The reason for Pantheon’s interest in the thirteen-year old Meers was that Delphi, a member of Pantheon with precognitive abilities, had seen a vision that in the future Max Meers would marshal his homeland of Draburg into one of the most devastating war machines Earth had ever known. Convincing the boy’s parents that their son was destined to be the next Hitler based on the future seen by a woman in a secret mountain base in the desert southwest of the United States would probably not be an easy task. This mission was further complicated by the fact that Meers was the son of the Draburg Ambassador to Israel. After Achilles’s first attack on the Ambassador’s family, the Israeli government assigned their top agent, Sabra, the job of protecting them. Sabra had battled the Hulk before and since his abduction by Pantheon, SHIELD was circulating the word that the Hulk was more dangerous than ever.

Banner caught up with Achilles in old Jerusalem. He was on foot in pursuit of the Meers boy and Gretta Rabin, the boy’s friend. As Banner began to follow them, the four were spotted by Sabra who was flying overhead looking for Meers. She did not recognize the Hulk because he was wearing a long hooded robe, but engaged him in combat first because he was the largest and closest to her. When she realized she was battling the Hulk, she fired her low-density, plasma energy quills at him, one of which entered his open mouth and struck his larynx. This paralyzed it, rendering him speechless. Unable to communicate, Banner engaged in a protracted battle with Sabra which took them through the streets and walls of old Jerusalem, and in and out the roof of the Israel museum, before culminating at the Wailing Wall. Stripped of her cape which enables her to fly, out of quills, and facing a physically superior foe, Sabra was prepared to make her final stand before the Wall. As she waited for the Hulk’s final attack she delivered a speech which affirmed her own, and her nation’s, courage and determination.

At this time, the effects of the quill that had paralyzed his larynx wore off. Banner, realizing further violence would be pointless and wanting a chance to explain his actions, surrendered.

Banner and Sabra reached an understanding and joined forces to track down Achilles. Despite the possible ramifications on future events, Banner saved Max Meers from falling to his death. He placed the boy on the ground and told him to stay put while he went back and dealt with Achilles. Frightened and confused, Meers started running through the maze of streets which make up old Jerusalem. From his high vantage point, Achilles could see that Meers was running toward Rick Jones, who was at that moment being pursued by a stampeding mob. While Achilles distracted the Hulk and Sabra with an explanation of why he tried to kill the boy (which included a recounting of his experience at the German concentration camp Dachau), Meers turned a corner and was trampled by the mind-controlled mob. After the accident, the boy was taken to Jerusalem Hospital, but the prognosis was that he would remain a vegetable for the rest of his life. Agamemnon lied to Banner about this, telling him the boy was fine. He had also lied about Achilles’s instructions—which had been to kill the boy from the start. No one yet realizes that Meers never actually had mind control powers, but rather was being controlled himself. He was the vehicle through which Gretta Rabin siphoned her mind control powers. It was, or will be, Gretta working behind the scenes who caused Max Meers’s rise to power which was foreseen by Delphi.

Banner, along with the rest of Pantheon’s fighting team, is now working on a plan to liberate the country of Transsabal. This action could bring Pantheon into conflict with the new SHIELD or even the United Nations’ new peace keeping force. How long Bruce Banner will serve with Pantheon, and exactly what his motives for serving with them are, remain to be seen.