Dran started making plans with a simple goal - to become able to survive the nuclear annihilation of Earth. He organized a mysterious research project called Project: FOUR (supposedly with ties to the government, but how much of that was a deception orchestrated by Dran is unclear), which by the 1960s developed a “power globe” of unclear properties. Dran intended all along to steal the globe to make himself indestructible, thus backstabbing his government contacts. To conduct this scheme he had a two-fisted West Coast mercenary Danny French infiltrate the Project: FOUR installation, along with the Russian spy the Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff). French and Romanoff succeeded, but after French used a capsule of gas provided by Dran to knock out the project’s scientists, he realized the “stun