Power Pack

Power Pack is a fictional team of comic book superheroes consisting of four young
Power Pack
siblings who appear in books published by Marvel Comics. They were created by
writer Louise Simonson and artist June Brigman and first appeared in their own
series in 1984. The series lasted 62 issues. The characters have since appeared in
other books.

Power Pack is the first team of preteen superheroes in the Marvel Universe and the
first in comics to operate without adult supervision. The title retains a cult following
and in 2005 was relaunched as a title aimed at younger readers though this was
eventually declared a separate continuity from that of the original series.

Contents
1 Publication history
1.1 Original series
1.2 Themes of the original series
1.3 2000 miniseries
1.4 Return of Power Pack Publication information
2 Fictional team history Publisher Marvel Comics
2.1 At the beginning
2.2 End of the series First Power Pack #1 (May
appearance 1984)
3 Post-series
3.1 Alex, New Warriors and the Future Foundation Created by Louise Simonson
3.2 Julie, Excelsior/Loners and Avengers Academy June Brigman
4 Members In-story information
5 Alternate-continuity versions
Base(s) New York City
5.1 Age of Apocalypse
(19841990);
5.2 All ages miniseries
5.3 Mini Marvels Bainbridge Island
5.4 House of M (2000)
5.5 Marvel 2099 Member(s) Alex Power
5.6 Marvel Zombies Julie Power
5.7 MC2
Jack Power
5.8 Millennial Visions
Katie Power
5.9 New Mutants
Franklin Richards
5.10 X-Force
6 Collected editions
7 In other media
7.1 Television
7.2 Film
7.2.1 Marvel Cinematic Universe

8 References
9 External links
Publication history

Original series
During the early 1980s, Marvel Comics had a policy that all their editors should also
be writers. Despite this,Louise Simonson recalled,

I had resisted Shooter's encouragement to write stuff or do freelance

stuff because I thought he had writers whose livelihoods depended
on their doing books and it didn't feel fair to take the work away
from them. I had a job. But then Shooter hired a whole batch of new
editors, and my workload was cut in half. I got bored and I thought I
should create something rather than take one of the jobs that were
already there, so I proposed the idea for "Power Pack" to Shooter
. He
eventually loved the idea, and so that was my taste of writing. I
found it more challenging than editing, and way more fun, because I
had been editing for a long time so I think it had gotten too easy for
me.[1]

Simonson chose June Brigman as Power Pack's penciler because of her talent for
drawing children.[1] The Power Pack series premiered in May 1984 (cover date The debut of the team. (1984)

August 1984) in a double issue inked by Bob Wiacek.[2] The series continued
through early 1991, during which time Brigman and Wiacek were replaced by Jon
Bogdanove and Hilary Barta as principal artists, and Bogdanove eventually took over as writer
.

Dramatic changes were made to the series' art and storylines in 1990, when Michael Higgins and Tom Morgan were brought in to
make the comic edgier and more adult beginning with issue #56. The changes were largely reviled by Power Pack readers, and the
series was canceled six months later with issue #62. A year and a half after the cancellation of the series, creators Louise Simonson
and June Brigman teamed up on thePower Pack Holiday Special, which undid all of the plotlines started by Michael Higgins.

The Power Pack strips were reprinted by Marvel UK beginning around 1986. It was Marvel UK's practice at the time to use a less
well-known series as a second strip in a comic devoted to more recognizable characters, and Power Pack became the "back-up strip"
in a run of Marvel's licensed Star Wars weekly Return of the Jedi.[3] During this period it was printed partly in black and white and
partly in colour, as was the main Star Wars strip. Power Pack subsequently became the back-up strip for the ThunderCats comic,
where it remained until its eventual replacement with theGalaxy Rangers series.

Themes of the original series

While the characters of Power Pack were children, the series often dealt with mature issues. Many of the social problems of the
eighties found their way into the book's storylines. Among the themes addressed were pollution,[4] drug abuse,[5] runaways,[6]
kidnapping,[7] gun violence,[8] bullying,[9] orphanhood,[10] and homelessness.[6]

A major ongoing theme of the series was the relationship between Power Pack and their parents, Jim and Maggie. Unlike superheroes
such as Spider-Man or Batman, the Power children were not "conveniently" orphaned and alone; instead, they were part of a loving
and supportive family. In spite of this, they decided early in the series to keep their powers and superhero activities completely
concealed from their parents. Keeping their powers secret sometimes led the members of Power Pack to deceive their family and
friends and to feel guilty about doing so. For instance, in one incident, Julie was forced to allow her school friends to be beaten up by
bullies instead of using her powers to defend them.[9] The question of whether or not the powers should be revealed was also an
ongoing source of debate among the children. Jack, for instance, found it "cool" to have a secret,[11] while the older and more
responsible Julie, who had originally suggested that the powers be concealed from their parents,[12] quickly reversed her opinion and
felt that they needed to be told sooner or later
. Power Pack readers also argued the matter out in the letter pages.

The writers also emphasized that the Pack had to learn to deal with their powers and their lethal potential responsibly. In one
early issue, Jack was wracked with remorse when he thought he had killed a man.[13] In a later story arc, Katie dealt with immense
[14]
guilt, called herself a "monster", and wanted to die after she saw how severely she had injured the Snark prince Jakal.

In 1984, Power Pack was featured with Spider-Man in a special comic designed to fight sexual abuse. The one-shot issue, written by
Louise Simonson, was distributed free and reprinted in the comics sections of many major newspapers.[15] Marvel continued the
campaign by featuring the characters in print public service announcements.[16] Later the same year, when the Pack was kidnapped
during the Snark Wars, the writers used the storyline to address the issue of child abduction and printed photos of missing children in
lieu of the comic's regularletters column.[17] In 1989, the team was featured withCloak and Dagger in a special graphic novel, which
addressed the issues of teen homelessness and runaways. Hotline telephone numbers for Covenant House were printed on the back
cover for readers seeking help.[6]

The Power Pack letters column, titled "Pick of the Pack", printed drawings and jokes about the characters submitted by readers, an
unusual practice for a Marvel title.

2000 miniseries
In 2000, a four-part Power Pack mini-series was released. In this series, the kids' ages had advanced a few years: Katie was now in
the fifth grade (having skipped two grades due to her intelligence), Julie and Jack were in junior high, and Alex was in high school.
James and Maggie, the children's parents, had at some time learned about the Power Pack. The Powers now wore masks on their
adventures, which, by and large, were restricted to "practice sessions" in the forests around their home in Bainbridge Island, ten miles
(16 km) from Seattle. The series once again pitted the Pack against Queen Mauraud and the Snarks in outer space.

Return of Power Pack

Joe Quesada announced in a New Joe Fridays column at Newsarama that Power Pack would be returning to the Marvel Universe in
late 2007, after the events of Civil War.[18][19] However, due to the various delays within their release shipping schedules for Marvel
Comics, Power Pack's was delayed. A new Power Pack story was commissioned for the 2007 Marvel Holiday Special,[20] which
would have been the first original material featuring the full cast in the standard Marvel Universe since the 2000 mini-series. It was
briefly summarized "Power Pack relives holidays past" in official Marvel solicits, but the story was scrapped from the publication at
the last minute, when it was decided to prioritize recently canceled title The Loners, which features Julie Power among its cast. A
Loners story written byCB Cebulski ran in place of the Power Pack strip, though the official publicity release and solicit information
still lists the Power Pack story and description.

Three of the Power siblings, Alex, Jack, and Katie, appear within Fantastic Four #574 as guests celebrating their former teammate
Franklin Richards' birthday.[21] During the story, Alex was invited to join Reed Richards'Future Foundation.[22]

During the "All Hope Lies in Doom" story arc within the FF series; the Power Pack were reunited in helping the Future Foundation
[23]
utilize the Hub to aid in the battles happenning at the Baxter Building.

Fictional team history

At the beginning
Alex (age 12),[24] Julie (10),[25] Jack (8),[26][27] and Katie Power (5)[28] were bright, normal American children living with their
parents in a beachfront house in Virginia. Their father, Dr. James Power, was a brilliant physicist who discovered a process to
generate energy from antimatter with the assistance of a converter, of which he made a prototype. An error in his formula, which
could have caused a chain reaction and destroyed Earth, was discovered by Aelfyre "Whitey" Whitemane, a member of the
[29]
Kymellian race, who resemble humanoid horses. A similar accident destroyed the Kymellians' home planet.

Whitey tried to stop the experiment by warning the Powers, but was mortally wounded by his enemies, the reptilian Snarks, in the
process. The Snarks kidnapped Dr. Power and his wife, Margaret, hoping to obtain the secret of antimatter. Whitey rescued the Power
[29]
children and told them what was happening. Before dying, he passed his powers to them to complete his mission.

The children, with the help of Whitey's "smartship", a sentient starship called Friday, managed to stop the antimatter test by stealing
and destroying the converter and rescued their parents from the Snarks. They decided to continue being superheroes and to hide their
powers from their parents.[30] Alex took the codename Gee, Julie became Lightspeed, Jack became Mass Master, and Katie became
Energizer.[29] They wore costumes made for them by Friday, which were actually Kymellian spacesuits. The costumes, which were
constructed of unstable molecules and stored 'Elsewhere', could materialize and disappear on voice command.

After rescuing their parents, the entire family moves to New York City, where the team attempted to deal with normal "kid problems"
such as bullies and loose teeth while battling some of the deadliest villains in the Marvel Universe. The Pack fought the villain Kurse
on two occasions during Secret Wars II.[31] They were also heavily involved in the events of the Fall of the Mutants[32] and Inferno
storylines.[33] During the Mutant Massacre, they descended into the sewers and foughtSabretooth.[34]

The Pack's two greatest enemies during the original series were the Snarks and Carmody/The Bogeyman. The Snarks generally
attempted to kidnap the Power children and steal their powers.[35] Carmody, James Power's former employer, spotted the Power
children when they stole the antimatter converter at the beginning of the series and became obsessed with revenge.[36] At first, he
tried to work with government agencies to prove the Powers were mutants.[12] Later, he became a supervillain himself, assuming the
identity of the Bogeyman.[37] After being thrown into Limbo by Magik of the New Mutants, he returned in a demonic form and
[33]
nearly killed the entire Power family before ultimately committing suicide.

Power Pack joined forces withCloak & Dagger,[38] the X-Men[39] and the New Mutants[40] on numerous occasions.

The team took great pains to conceal their superhuman abilities from their family and "normal" friends. However, during Inferno,
when confronted by the demonic Carmody, the children were forced to reveal their powers in order to save their parents.[41] The
discovery led Jim and Maggie to have mental breakdowns. They were restored to normal through the combined efforts of Mirage and
Gosamyr, who convinced them that the super-powered children were clones created to protect them from Carmody, and that the
"real" Power children, who were powerless, had been taken away and guarded by the New Mutants until Carmody was defeated. This
explanation placated their parents and, once they were reunited with their "normal" children, their minds healed themselves. The
"clones", which had been generated by Mirage, were then removed, making the children's secret safe once again.[42] This "cover-up"
proved to be unpopular with readers, and was highly criticized in the comic's letters column.

Another occasional member of the team was Franklin Richards, the son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, who went by
the name Tattletale while adventuring. James and Margaret Power were introduced to Franklin after the events of the Snark Wars,[43]
and befriended Reed and Sue Richards when Franklin was returned to Avengers Mansion.[44] Subsequently, Franklin was often
invited to stay with the Power family while his parents were away on missions.[45] Although Franklin was a member of the group,
the Fantastic Four had no knowledge of Power Pack until the end of the series; instead, they thought of the Power children simply as
"Franklin's friends".[46]

End of the series

Some time later, Alex underwent a transformation into a Kymellian, and Margaret Power began losing her mind.[47] The Power
family sought help for Margaret and Alex in various places, beginning with Reed Richards' lab, but their ef
forts were disrupted by the
Red Ghost and his super apes.

The Power family traveled to the UK to try to find help for Margaret and Alex, but the institute was overrun by Nightmare and they
encountered Excalibur.[48]

.[49]
The family decided to abandon New York and fly with Friday to New Kymellia to seek help for Alex and his mother
However, both Alex and his parents had been replaced by "pseudoplasm" doubles by a renegade Kymellian Technocrat and his ally,
the exiled Maraud (called Meraud in this storyline). The real Alex and his parents were being held captive in the Technocrat's hidden
satellite orbiting New Kymellia. Eventually, the other Power siblings learned the truth and rescued their family, switching powers
[50]
several times as needed, and barely escaping from the satellite before it was destroyed by Maraud.

After recovering on New Kymellia, the Power family returned to New York with Friday. Each of the children was back in possession
of his or her original power, and their parents remained unaware of the powers or of Power Pack'sxistence.
e [50]

Post-series

Alex, New Warriors and the Future Foundation

The Kymellians had given Alex the ability to absorb the powers of his siblings into himself and thus use them all. With these powers,
he joined the New Warriors superhero group under the name Powerpax, later Powerhouse.[51] This caused some friction with Alex's
brother and sisters; even their parents noticed the heightened levels of hostility and forced the children to see a psychologist. Alex
eventually gave the others' powers back; the four reverted to their original names (except Alex, who named himself Zero-G and Julie,
who was now called Starstreak, the name Katie had chosen when she had Julie's powers).[52] Speedball later tried to recruit Alex
back into the New Warriors. Alex politely refused, citing the conflicts his membership would cause among his siblings, though Katie
offered her services, to Speedball's chagrin.[53]

At some point outside of any published story, their parents discovered that the children had superpowers and were active as
superheroes. Why Power Pack's parents could now retain this information without suffering mental trauma and insanity thanks to
telepathic manipulation by Byrel Whitemane that had previously been established as impossible to circumvent has not been
explained.[42][49][54]

Following the events of the 2000 mini-series, Julie left the family home in unrevealed circumstances in order to try to become an
actress in Los Angeles. Despite Julie's departure from Power Pack, the team defeats Big Wheel.[55] Katie is later seen in costume
having beaten several A.I.M. agents unconscious, when Flatman and Doorman offered her membership in the Great Lakes Avengers
but she declined,[56] and Power Pack fight Grizzly in New Jersey, a sighting which is used as his alibi against charges that he robbed
Madison Square Garden.[57]

During Marvel's Civil War event, Alex's codename Powerhouse was briefly mentioned byHindsight Lad, an ex-teammate responsible
for outing the secret identities of many New Warriors.[58] Alex is one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of
the comic book Avengers: The Initiative#1.[59]

He later joined Reed Richards' Future Foundation project, which allowed gifted children living within the Baxter Building to map out
the outlook for their generation.[22]

Julie, Excelsior/Loners and Avengers Academy

Some time after the events of the 2000 mini-series, Julie Power came to the conclusion that adventuring had deprived her of a normal
childhood. She dropped out of high school, left her family, and moved to Los Angeles to become an actress. She joined Excelsior, a
support group for "former" teenage superheroes, where she is once again known as Lightspeed. Excelsior's first mission was to return
the members of the Runaways to the foster care from which the children had absconded and ended with Excelsior battling Ultron.[60]
Though they are not seen on-panel, it is then established that Excelsior spend several months attempting to recapture the child cast of
the Runaways, but are constantly thwarted by being ineffectual, getting roped into cleaning up after the Runaways' crimefighting
[61]
exploits, and on occasion simply by being outsmarted by the Runaways.

The Loners are all registered under the Superhuman Registration Act, but consider themselves retired from super-heroics[62] when
they are not battling super-powered menaces[63] or operating in public as superheroes attempting to capture runaway super-powered
children.[64] However, Julie later tells the rest of the group that she is not registered.[65] While she is clearly less intelligent and
articulate than previously established, Julie reveals inLoners #4 that this is merely an affectation she adopts for the benefit of others
[66] (It had previously been clearly established that Julie is a redhead,
she pretends to be a "dumb blonde" to fit in with Los Angelinos.
her "blonde" hair the result of using light hues in the production of the comic's art to reflect the brighter climate of the west coast.)

The Loners' support group has moved to New York City, where Julie is presumably seen, though not named, at recent meetings.[67]
As with the cast's sudden relocation to Los Angeles from New York between the cancellation of their own series and the beginning of
Runaways volume 2, the move is not explained.

Avengers Academy,[68] where she is attending

Julie was seen among the other young superheroes to arrive on the new campus for the
classes as a teacher assistant, underQuicksilver's tutelage.[69]

Members
The Power siblings have changed powers on more than one occasion and remain the core of the Pack.

Codename history
Real Name Codename Notes
(associated power)
Gee (gravity),
Destroyer (energy),
Mass Master (density),
Zero-G Alex was briefly a member of theNew Warriors.
Alex Power Powerpax/Powerhouse
(gravity) Currently a member of theFuture Foundation
(gravity, energy, density,
acceleration), Zero-G
(gravity)
Lightspeed
Her flight trail is rainbow-like but features only the
(acceleration), Molecula
Lightspeed subtractive primary colorsyellow, magenta, and
Julie Power (density), Starstreak
(acceleration) cyan. Currently attending classes at theAvengers
(acceleration,
Academy
teleportation)
Counterweight
Mass Master
Jack Power (gravity), Destroyer Appeared In TV Movie "Power Pack" 1991
(density)
(energy)
Starstreak
Energizer
Katie Power (acceleration), Same As Jack(The Others Appeared As Well)
(energy)
Counterweight (gravity)
He officially joined Power Pack in #17 and has not
Tattletale (Precognition, been an active member since the end ofPower
Franklin
astral projection Pack volume 1. Currently a member of theFuture
Richards(Honorary Tattletale
(dreamform/self), limited Foundation. Son Of Reed Richards(Mr. Fantastic)
Member)
telepathy) and Susan Storm/Richards(Invisible Woman/Mrs.
Fantastic) Of The Fantastic Four.
Teleportation, energy
projection, gravity Unofficial member. Kofi is a Kymellian youth and
Kofi Whitemane alteration, healing, force cousin of Whitey who made his most recent
field projection, air appearance in the 2000Power Pack mini-series.
manipulation.
Warp Drive, Flight,
Friday Supercomputer, Force The Smartship Friday is an intelligent starship.
field

Alternate-continuity versions

Age of Apocalypse
The Power children had been captured and used by Beast in his gruesome experiments which ended with fusing the four siblings
together.[70] They were later dissected[71] and kept sealed in containing tubes at his secret laboratory in the uYcatn.[70]
All ages miniseries
A new Power Pack miniseries debuted in 2005. Written by Marc Sumerak and penciled by Gurihiru Studios, it mostly ignored
previous Power Pack continuity and was aimed toward young children. Marvel later noted that these stories take place on Earth-5631
as opposed to the established mainstream Marvel continuity of Earth-616.[72] Although the initial four-issue series was not released
under the Marvel Age imprint because of editorial decisions, it was later reprinted in digest format under the Marvel Age banner.
Each of these first four issues focussed on one of the Power children and their respective troubles in balancing the secret of their
powers with the demands of their daily lives.

A second Power Pack miniseries by the same creative team, X-Men & Power Pack, debuted in October 2005. The series guest-
starred various members and villains from the X-Men comics, including Cyclops, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Beast, Mystique,
Nightcrawler, and Mister Sinister and his Marauders. The Circus of Crime also makes an appearance.

A third Power Pack miniseries, titled Avengers & Power Pack: Assemble! debuted in April 2006. This series teamed the Pack with
various members of the Avengers: Captain America, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Spider-Woman. Issues #3 & #4 were a two-part
adventure in which the Pack and the Avengers battled Kang the Conqueror, although the latter's plot of conquest which culminates in
these two volumes spans the whole miniseries.

A fourth Power Pack miniseries, titled Spider-Man & Power Pack, debuted in November 2006. The series featured Spider-Man and
some of his rogue's gallery, such as the Vulture, Sandman, and Venom. The miniseries included two sub-plots: in one, Spider-Man
was reduced in age and temporarily joined the Power siblings; the second involved the group teaming up with Spidey to capture
Venom symbiote costumes that had been taking control of various women - including Mary-Jane Watson - during part one, and then
Katie in part two.

A fifth Power Pack miniseries, Hulk & Power Pack, debuted in March 2007, following the events of the Spider-Man and Power
Pack miniseries. The series involved the Hulk and his enemies the Absorbing Man, Abomination, and Zzzax. The miniseries was
drawn by David Williams (except for issue #3, which was drawn by Andy Kuhn).

A sixth Power Pack miniseries, Fantastic Four & Power Pack, debuted in July 2007, co-starring the Fantastic Four, who made a
previous appearance in issue #3 of the first Power Pack miniseries. Gurihiru Studios returned for the artwork; however, Fred Van
Lente replaced Mark Sumerak as writer. The series pitted the Pack against the Fantastic Four's enemies and also featured Franklin
Richards, who, as Tattletale, was a member of Power Pack in the regular Marvel Universe.

A seventh Power Pack miniseries, Iron Man & Power Pack, debuted in November 2007, co-starring Iron Man, who had previously
appeared in the Avengers & Power Pack: Assemble! miniseries. The series was written by Marc Sumerak and the artwork was by
Marcelo Diachara. Opponents include the Puppet Master, the Ghost, Blizzard, Speed Demon and Ultimo. James Rhodes and Pepper
Potts also have guest appearances.

An eighth Power Pack miniseries, titled Power Pack: Day One debuted in March 2008. The series, which featured the same creative
team as Fantastic Four & Power Pack (Fred Van Lente and Gurihiru), focused on the origins of the team and the incorporation of
their new member, Franklin Richards. This series is credited as being "based on" the origin tale from the 1984 series by Louise
Simonson and June Brigman, though it is lighter in tone, has a shorter page-count, and changes some plot elements. The series also
included scientific back-up information about the physical aspects of the siblings' powers, with artwork by Colleen Coover
.

A ninth series, Skrulls vs Power Pack, made its debut in July 2008. The storyline involved the Power Pack encountering the alien
Skrulls. This miniseries also introduced the Kymellian Kofi Whitemane to this continuity. The creative team was Fred Van Lente as
writer and Cory Hamscher as artist. Gurihiru provided the covers and the colors.

A tenth miniseries, Wolverine and Power Pack, made its debut in November 2008. Wolverine had previously appeared in the X-Men
and Power Pack miniseries. The series reunited the original creative team of Marc Sumerak and Gurihiru. Logan and the four
children confronted Sauron, faced the Danger Room, and defended the Xavier school against Sentinels, giant robots programmed for
anti-mutant genocide. Since the Power siblings are not actually mutants, their intervention was decisive in the outcome of the latter
battle. Logan and Power Pack have adventures together in 19th-century New ork
Y City and 20th-century Tokyo.
An eleventh Power Pack miniseries began April 2010, with Thor appearing and co-headlining, called Thor And The Warriors Four.
The creative team is writer Alex Zalben and artwork once again by Gurihiru. Thor and the Power children confront an evil plot of
Loki in order to save the Powers' grandmother. High points include Alex wielding Mjolnir, Beta Ray Bill and the other Asgardians
turning into children, a guest appearance byLockjaw and the Pet Avengers, and Dr. Donald Blake making applesauce. The series also
contains a back-up adventure ofHercules telling the story of his Twelve Labors while babysitting the Pack.

Mini Marvels
In a Mini Marvels short, Spider-Man is hired to babysit infant forms of the Power Pack members. Various adventures occur, i.e. he
tries to enroll them in "Professor Xavier's Preschool for Mutants".

House of M
Alex and Julie both appear inHouse of M: Avengers #3, in which they are members of a super-powered gang called the Wolfpack, the
House of M's version of theNew Warriors.

Marvel 2099
In the alternate timeline of the Marvel 2099 event, Julie, Jack, and Kate form the Power Pack 2099. All of them are adults, whom
their powers have since "Slowed their aging to a crawl". Alex is notably missing with no full explanation. They have been hired by
Alchemax CEO J. Jonah Jameson to take down Captain America 2099, and Spider-Man 2099.[73] Eventually, it is revealed that the
[74]
Power Pack are the shape-shifting theSkrulls, who are fully brainwashed into believing they were the Power Pack.

Marvel Zombies
The Power children appear inMarvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness#3. All four children have been changed into zombies. They
come into conflict with Nextwave, who have not been infected at that point but are ruthlessly dispatched off-panel moments later.
Before they killed Nextwave, an explosion violently killed them all, except for Alex Power, who alone appears in Marvel Zombies
Halloween along with other zombies attacking Kitty Pryde and her son, Peter
.

MC2
Katie appears in issues 25 of A-Next, calling herself Kate. During a conversation with American Dream, she indicates that
something tragic happened to one of her brothers, but the details of the situation remain unclear
.

Millennial Visions
In the "Power Pack: Starting Over" story within Marvel's 2001 Millennial Visions one-shot comic, the team is depicted as a group of
adults ranging from 25 (Katie) to 32 (Alex). In this alternate universe, the siblings split up after their parents are killed by anti-mutant
[75]
activists and lead disparate lives, until they are reunited by Julie to face a new attack from the Snarks.

New Mutants
In a dystopian future ruled by Sunspot, the Power Pack is represented by an elderly Katie, who wields all the powers of the Pack.[76]
Katie explains that she has all the powers because her siblings were killed some time ago. She fights for the rights of downtrodden
humans and helps the time-lost members of the New Mutants find their way home.

X-Force
A young girl called Francine Power appeared in the pages of X-Force Annual #1, operating under the name Powerpax. She had all of
the powers of the various members of Power Pack and wore a costume similar to the one later worn by Alex Power in the pages of
New Warriors; this story took place in an alternate future, but, as with all alternate future timelines and out-of-continuity series
published by Marvel, the world in which the story is set is also an alternate reality somewhere in the lar
ger Marvel multiverse.

Collected editions
 Publication
Title Material collected ISBN
date

Power Pack May 978-

Power Pack (1984) #1-4
Origin Album 1988[77] 0871353856

Power Pack 978-

Power Pack (1984) #1-10 July 2009
Classic volume 1 0785137900
Power Pack Power Pack (1984) #11-17; Uncanny X-Men #195; Power Pack & 978-
May 2010
Classic volume 2 Cloak and Dagger: Shelter from the Storm 0785145929
Power Pack 978-
Power Pack (1984) #18-26; Thor #363 March 2011
Classic volume 3 0785153054
Power Pack (1984) #18; Secret Wars II #1-9; Uncanny X-Men
#198, #202-203; New Mutants #30, #36-37; Captain America
#308; Iron Man #197; Fantastic Four #282, #285, #288, #316-319;
Web of Spider-Man #6; Amazing Spider-Man #268, #273-274;
Secret Wars II 978-
Daredevil #223; Incredible Hulk #312; Avengers #260-261 and May 2009
Omnibus 0785131113
#265-266; Dazzler #40; Alpha Flight #28; Thing #30; Doctor
Strange #74; Cloak and Dagger #4; Thor #363; Power Man and
Iron Fist #121; Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #111;
Defenders #152; Quasar #8
Essential X-Men Power Pack (1984) #27; X-Men #199-213, Annual #9; New September 0-7851-
volume 6 Mutants #46, Special Edition #1; X-Factor #9-11; Thor #373-374 2005 1727-X
Essential X- Power Pack (1984) #27; Avengers #262; Fantastic Four #286; X- November 0-7851-
Factor volume 1 Factor #1-16, Annual #1; Thor #373-374 2005 1886-1
X-Men: Mutant Power Pack (1984) #27; Uncanny X-Men #210-214; New Mutants January 0-7851-
Massacre #46; X-Factor #9-11; Thor #373-374; Daredevil #238 2010 3805-6
Power Pack (1984) #35; Uncanny X-Men #220-227; New Mutants
X-Men: Fall of
(1983) #55-61; X-Factor (1986) #19-26; Captain America (1968) October 978-0-7851-
the Mutants
#339; Daredevil(1964) #252; Fantastic Four (1961) #312; 2011 5822-6
Omnibus
Incredible Hulk (1968) #340
Power Pack (1984) #40, 42-44; Avengers #298-300; Fantastic
X-Men: Inferno
Four #322-324; Amazing Spider-Man #311-313; Spectacular September 978-
Crossovers
Spider-Man #146-148; Web of Spider-Man #47-48; Daredevil 2010 0785146711
Omnibus
#262-263, 265; Excalibur #6-7; Cloak & Dagger #4
Power Pack (1984) #53; Uncanny X-Men #256-258; Fantastic
Acts of Four #334-336; Wolverine #19-20; Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme
Vengeance #11-13; Incredible Hulk #363; Punisher #28-29; Punisher War August 978-0-7851-
Crossovers Journal #12-13; Marc Spector: Moon Knight#8-10; Daredevil 2011 4488-5
Omnibus #275-276; Alpha Flight #79-80; New Mutants #84-86; X-Factor
#49-50; Damage Control #1-4; and Web of Spider-Man #64-65
Power Pack: 0-7851-
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Pack Attack! 1736-9
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Power Pack Classic volume 4 (ISBN 978-0785162629) was scheduled to be released in March 2013 but was cancelled.[78] It would
have contained Power Pack (1984) #27-36 and material fromStrange Tales (1987) #13-14.

In other media

Television
In 1991, following the cancellation of the original comic, Marvel developed Power Pack into a live-action show for
NBC's saturday children's television lineup. While a pilot episode was made, the series was not picked up. Minor
alterations to the concept were made for the pilot, ranging from the children's parents being aware of their
superhuman abilities, Julie's acceleration power being altered to movement at superhuman speed, without the ability
to fly, and the "cloud" aspect of Jack's densitypower being eliminatedhe was only able to shrink in size. The
children did not wear costumes.
All four members of the Power Pack (Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie) have cameo appearances alongside Franklin
Richards in The Super Hero Squad Showepisode "Support Your Local Sky-Father!".
The name Power Pack is brought up bySpider-Man in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Blade and the Howling
Commandos" as one of the "big guns" in the superhero community .

Film
In 2000, Marvel Entertainment entered into a joint venture agreement withArtisan Entertainment to turn at least 15 Marvel superhero
franchises into live-action films, television series, direct-to-video films and internet projects. These franchises included an adaptation
of Power Pack.[79]

Marvel Cinematic Universe

In September 2017, Marvel Studios announced plans to introduce Power Pack into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with their own
film with a plot described as being "aSpy Kids-like story".[80]

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comics/mvukrotjw082.jpg&text=Star%20W ars:%20Return%20of%20the%20Jedi%20Weekly%2082).
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6. Power Pack/Cloak and Dagger: Shelter from the Storm(1990)
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16. Power Pack #23
17. Power Pack #2226
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Christmas
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27. Comment from editors in Power Pack #9 "Pick of the Pack" letters column, regarding Alex's "my brother is almost 8"
comment in issue #6: "Alex did screw up! Jack is almost nine! Alex was so flustered by meeting Spider-Man that he
could hardly talk straight...and boy is Jack mad! He figures it's no wonder that Spider-Man treated them like babies!
He thought Jack was a whole year younger than he is!"
28. Power Pack #16
29. Power Pack #1
30. Power Pack #25
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41. Power Pack #42
42. Power Pack #44
43. Power Pack #26
44. Power Pack #28
45. Power Pack #36
46. Power Pack #36, 52
47. Power Pack #5662
48. Excalibur #29
49. Power Pack #62
50. Power Pack Holiday Special#1
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52. Between New Warriors #75, Power Pack (vol. 2) #1
53. New Warriors (vol. 2) 1
54. Power Pack #50
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66. Loners #4
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cancellations-for-march-2013). ComicList. 2013-02-15. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
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marvel-1117781709/). Variety. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
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. Retrieved September 29, 2017.

External links
Marvel Directory (Power Pack)
Info regarding a future feature film
Power Pack's 'Site within Writer Marc Sumerak 'Page
Power Pack on IMDb

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