Elliot Franklin

Eliot Franklin is a brilliant physicist who, after a run-in with the law, became Thunderball — a superhumanly strong member of the Wrecking Crew, wielding an enchanted wrecking ball and putting his scientific intellect to destructive use alongside his demolition-themed teammates.

Elliot Franklin turns up in the pages of Hachette's German-language Marvel library — Spider-Man Komplett, Marvel Origins, and Marvel Crossover — a figure whose catalog presence stretches across a quarter-century from 1999 to 2024, lending him a quiet but genuine staying power. Credited to the legendary founding partnership of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, his roots run deep into Marvel's creative bedrock, even if his appearances in this catalog number a select six. He keeps colorful company indeed, sharing pages with the likes of Ringmaster, Der Clown, and Die Grossen Gambonnos — a rogues' gallery that signals he moves through some of Marvel's more theatrical, big-top corners of the universe. For collectors hunting the German-edition Marvel reprints, Elliot Franklin is one of those satisfying discoveries hiding in plain sight.