![]() ![]() From July 2007 until the series' cancellation in February 2009, an alternate version of Franklin appeared as a cast member in the Marvel Adventures all-ages Power Pack series of titles.įictional character biography Origin Between appearances in these other titles, Franklin has remained a recurring cast member of the Fantastic Four comic book. From November 1994 an older version of the same character (aged for the purposes of a story) appeared in the pages of Marvel's Fantastic Force until publication ceased as of April 1996. Īppearing sporadically in the pages of Fantastic Four over the following fifteen years, Franklin became a member of the pre-teen superhero team Power Pack as of issue #17 (December 1985) of that title until its cancellation with issue #62 (February 1991). We finally decided on a boy named Franklin Richards. And we wanted to stretch that out as long as we could while we tried to figure out whether she'd have a boy or a girl and what to name it. Of course, Sue's pregnancy took about a year and a half or two years, because comic book time is somewhat different from real-world time. But what super power would he have? And we could keep the readers guessing for years until the baby grew up. Then it occurred to me we could have a lot of fun with that, because we would assume that if two people with super powers have a baby, the baby might have a super power. Sue Storm and Reed Richards in The Fantastic Four had been married for quite a while, and I figured the most natural thing in the world would be for them to have a baby. ![]() In trying to be realistic, as we always did. During the Dawn of X storyline, Franklin became human again and went back to live a normal, everyday life.įranklin first appears in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (November 1968), and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, although he didn't receive his name until two years later in Fantastic Four #94 (January 1970). He has started using the code name Powerhouse. Franklin's first name comes from Franklin Storm, his maternal grandfather. His parents named him Franklin Benjamin Richards his middle name is taken from his godfather Ben Grimm, the Thing. He is the young son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman of the Fantastic Four, the older brother of Valeria Richards, and the nephew of Invisible Woman's younger brother, the Human Torch. He has been portrayed as a child and as a budding superhero, albeit inexperienced.įranklin is an immensely powerful being with vast reality-manipulating and psionic powers beyond Omega level mutants, despite not being a mutant himself (though he was believed to be a mutant throughout most of his appearances). The character is usually depicted as a supporting character in Fantastic Four. Psionic abilities such as telekinesis, telepathy, astral projection, and precognitionįranklin Benjamin Richards is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]()
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