Eliot Franklin

Eliot Franklin is a brilliant physicist who turned to crime, eventually gaining superhuman strength and durability through mystical Asgardian energy accidentally transferred via the Wrecker's crowbar. He became Thunderball, a founding member of the Wrecker's villainous Wrecking Crew.

Eliot Franklin made his Marvel debut in The Defenders #19 in 1975, stepping onto the Bronze Age stage with the kind of creative pedigree — Chris Claremont, Len Wein, and Sal Buscema among his debut's architects — that signals a character built to last. And last he has: with 119 catalog appearances stretching across five decades to 2025, Franklin is no footnote. He keeps genuinely dangerous company, sharing pages with the likes of Wrecker, Piledriver, Bulldozer, and their associated hard-hitting crew, and his fingerprints are all over landmark Marvel events, from the original Secret Wars to Dark Reign: The Hood. With seven key-issue appearances to his name, collectors and fans digging into Marvel's street-level and villain-side history will find Eliot Franklin a rewarding figure worth tracking down.