Malvan-X Corporation was a Mandelovia-based scientific research firm located in the city-state's business district.
Malvan-X was headed by Ms. X, whose real name was kept secret. Its head of research was Dr. Henry Quantos. Agent Lioness, Agent F7 and Agent Digigrrl of the Mandelovian Security Corps were assigned to provide special services for the company.
In 2001, Malvan-X had managed to infiltrate TriVext Corporation, a U.S. genetics research firm contracted by the U.S. government to study the metagene. It used a Trojan virus to discover information on TriVext's top secret research and future plans. In this way, Malvan-X was able to learn that, by 2000, TriVext had secretly developed a method of cloning (despite its being illegal) in order to duplicate powerful metahumans as well as to activate and manipulate the metagene, and in September, 2000, TriVext had successfully created a clone of Edulcore Cicciotto, called Eddie, who was brought to term and "born" in June, 2001.
Malvan-X also learned that, in 2001, TriVext had begun testing began testing U.S. citizens to find those with an active metagene, beginning with newborns and all hospitalized or institutionalized people. Quantos theorized that TriVext was building an army of metahumans for the U.S. government in order to fight a possible extraterrestrial invasion. Quantos believed the corporation's goal was to test all U.S. citizens and possibly everyone in the world for the metagene in order to build this large metahuman army.