History
Doctor Gladstone Hawkins was a paleontologist who was requested by S.H.I.E.L.D. to join a special scientific task force known as the Godzilla Squad. As the name suggests, the team was charged with tracking down and confining the mutated dinosaur known as Godzilla. Hawkins accompanied S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan and Gabe Jones as they tracked Godzilla throughout the New York area. It was Gladstone's suggestion that Godzilla would be more controllable if they could reduce him in size using Pym Particles. The tactic worked briefly, but Godzilla still managed to elude capture. Gladstone recommended herding Godzilla into the American Museum of Natural History where he was sure they could capture him so long as nobody violently provoked the creature. This stratagem also failed, due largely to interference by the Fantastic Four.[citation needed]