Who Is Thunderball? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Thunderball is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Eliot Franklin, with over 531 comic issue appearances. Once a physicist who built a gamma bomb which was then stolen, the man later called the Thunderball was jailed after he tried to recover it. He there met the Wrecker and gained his powers. They joined forces with the Piledriver and the Bulldozer to form the Wrecking Crew.

Who is Thunderball?

Origin Dirk Garthwaite, the Wrecker, told the Thunderball and the other two members of the Wrecking Crew to hold his crowbar during a lightning storm. A lightning bolt struck the crowbar, distributing the powers its Asgardian enchantments conferred upon Garthwaite among the four of them. The Thunderball was also one of the villains whom the Beyonder gathered during the Secret Wars . The Thunderball's real name is Dr. Eliot Franklin, and before he became the Thunderball, he was a physicist with a Ph.D in physics, possessed of a genius-level I.Q. His genius is made apparent by the fact that he created the gamma bomb(something even Dr. Robert Bruce Banner was unable to do), and also later miniaturized the gamma bomb. Creation The Thunderball was created by Len Wein and designed by Sal Buscema in 1974, and he first appeared in The Defenders # 17.

Key facts

Thunderball is of human origin and first appeared in "Power Play". The character is published by Marvel. With 531 recorded issue appearances, Thunderball ranks among the most featured characters in comics.