Editing Power Pack (section)

==Fictional team history==
===At the beginning===
Alex (age 12),<ref>''Power Pack'' #6</ref> [[Julie Power|Julie]] (10),<ref>''Power Pack'' #45</ref> Jack (8),<ref name="ReferenceA">Comment from editors in Power Pack #6 "Pick of the Pack" letters column: "Jack is almost nine"</ref><ref name="ReferenceB">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!"</ref> and Katie Power (5)<ref>''Power Pack'' #16</ref> were bright, normal American children living with their parents in a beachfront house in [[Virginia]]. Their father, Dr. James Power, was a physicist who discovered a process to generate energy from [[antimatter]] with the assistance of a converter, of which he made a prototype. The process was, however, known to several alien races to cause chain reactions and destroy planets, and Dr. Power's knowledge of the process was discovered by Aelfyre "Whitey" Whitemane, a member of the horse-like [[Kymellian]] species. A similar accident destroyed the Kymellians' home planet.<ref name=PP1>''Power Pack'' #1</ref>

Whitey tried to stop the experiment by warning the Powers, but was mortally wounded by his enemies, the reptilian [[Zn'rx|Snark]]s, in the process. The Snarks kidnapped Dr. Power and his wife, Margaret, hoping to obtain the secret of antimatter. Whitey rescued the Power children and told them what was happening. Before dying, he passed his powers to them to complete his mission.<ref name=PP1/>

The children, with the help of Whitey's "Smartship", a [[sentience|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.<ref>''Power Pack'' #2–5</ref> Alex took the codename ''Gee'', Julie became ''Lightspeed'', Jack became ''Mass Master'', and Katie became ''Energizer''.<ref name=PP1/> They wore costumes made for them by Friday, which were Kymellian spacesuits. The costumes were constructed of unstable molecules and 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 (comics)|Kurse]] on two occasions during ''[[Secret Wars II]]''.<ref>''Power Pack'' #18; ''Secret Wars II'' #6</ref> They were also heavily involved in the events of the ''[[Fall of the Mutants]]''<ref>''Power Pack'' #35; ''X-Factor'' #25</ref> and ''[[Inferno (Marvel Comics)|Inferno]]'' storylines.<ref name=pp42-44>''Power Pack'' #42–44</ref> During the ''[[Mutant Massacre]]'', they descended into the sewers and fought [[Sabretooth (character)|Sabretooth]].<ref>''Power Pack'' #27</ref>

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.<ref>''Power Pack'' #3–4, 16–17, 22–25, 50–52</ref> 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.<ref>''Power Pack'' #2</ref> At first, he tried to work with government agencies to prove the Powers were mutants.<ref name="pp5">''Power Pack'' #5</ref> Later, he became the supervillain Bogeyman.<ref>''Power Pack'' #14–15, 37–40</ref> After being thrown into [[Otherplace|Limbo]] by [[Magik]], he returned in a demonic form and nearly killed the entire Power family before committing suicide.<ref name=pp42-44/>

Power Pack joined forces with [[Cloak and Dagger (characters)|Cloak & Dagger]],<ref>''Power Pack'' #7–8, #19; ''Strange Tales'' #12–14</ref> the [[X-Men]]<ref>''Power Pack'' #12, 27, 35, 44; ''Uncanny X-Men'' #195, #205</ref> and the New Mutants<ref>''Power Pack'' #20, 33, 39–40, 44</ref> on numerous occasions.

The team took great pains to conceal their abilities from their family and "normal" friends. However, during ''[[Inferno (Marvel Comics)|Inferno]]'', when confronted by the demonic Carmody, the children were forced to reveal their powers to save their parents.<ref>''Power Pack'' #42</ref> The discovery led Jim and Maggie to have mental breakdowns. They were restored to normal through the combined efforts of [[Danielle Moonstar|Mirage]] and [[Gosamyr]], who convinced them that the superpowered 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.<ref name="Power Pack #44">''Power Pack'' #44</ref> This cover-up proved to be unpopular with readers, and was highly criticized in the comic's letters column.{{cn|date=January 2025}}

Another occasional member of the team was [[Franklin Richards (character)|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,<ref>''Power Pack'' #26</ref> and befriended Reed and Sue Richards when Franklin was returned to [[Avengers Mansion]].<ref>''Power Pack'' #28</ref> Subsequently, Franklin was often invited to stay with the Power family while his parents were away on missions.<ref>''Power Pack'' #36</ref> 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".<ref>''Power Pack'' #36, 52</ref>

===End of the series===
Some time later, Alex underwent a transformation into a Kymellian, and Margaret Power began losing her mind.<ref>''Power Pack'' #56–62</ref> The Power family sought help for Margaret and Alex in various places, beginning with Reed Richards' lab, but their efforts were disrupted by the [[Red Ghost (character)|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 (Marvel Comics)|Nightmare]] and they encountered Excalibur.<ref>''Excalibur'' #29</ref> After that the Powers visited the Caribbean. The children planned to enjoy the sun and sand while their father consulted with colleagues but found themselves confronted with what seemed to be an alien attack on the beach where they were relaxing.<ref>''Marvel Super-Heroes Summer Special 1991''</ref>

The family decided to abandon New York and fly with Friday to New Kymellia to seek help for Alex and his mother.<ref name="Power Pack #62">''Power Pack'' #62</ref>

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 several times as needed, and barely escaping from the satellite before it was destroyed by Maraud.<ref name=pphs>''Power Pack Holiday Special'' #1</ref>

After recovering on New Kymellia, the Power family returned to New York with Friday. Each of the children was back in possession of their original power, and their parents remained unaware of their children's powers and of Power Pack's existence.<ref name="pphs" />