A few days after teasing fandom with an Alex Ross Captain
Based on the All-Winners Squad, which was featured in two 1946 Timely comics, the Invaders as envisaged by Thomas was actually a WWII prototype for the Avengers consisting of Captain America and Bucky, the original Human Torch and his sidekick Toro, and Namor the Submariner--and the Invaders' adventures were typically set in World War II where they squared off against a number of Nazi supervillains.
The new series, which shapes up as one of Marvel's major 'events' for 2008, will be firmly rooted in the Marvel universe of the present, which it will affect in a major way. Marvel's plan to bring the 1940s Invaders in their fighting prime to the present is full of intriguing possibilities such as 1940s Captain