Edward Price (Earth-616)

Captain Universe
Name	Edward Price
Current Alias	Captain Universe
Aliases	Eddie
Affiliation and Relationships
Relatives	Timothy Price (father); Kendra Price (mother)
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Blond
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human; briefly empowered by the Enigma Force
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Place of Birth	Medina, Ohio
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Toddler
Base of Operations	Bachman Drive, Medina, Ohio
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Tony Isabella, Steve Ditko
First	Web of Spider-Man Annual #6 (June, 1990)
First	Web of Spider-Man Annual #6 (June, 1990)

History

The two-year-old child of loving parents, Edward "Eddie" Price enjoyed using a nightlight to sleep, playing with his father (who suggested using monsters action figures to fight each other, good monsters versus bad monsters) and watching TV.

Price allowed to watch Godzilla meets the Brady Bunch special on TV, which her mother believed had caused him to cry; his father instead thought the problem was an stomach ache. The debate and the wailing were both interrupted by a slight earthquake. The tremor affected their neighbor's house, damaging a painting they were using to control two demons, Gart and Rath, that had been summoned to satisfy their greed. The demons, released, altered the reality, blocking sunlight and destroying buildings.

Identifying the event as a crisis, the mysterious Uni-Power, a sentient energy field, chose young Edward as his champions due to his potential for heroism, and endowed him with the powers, memories and uniform of Captain Universe - but not altering his personality. Price had been explicitly chosen to end the menace of demons Gart and Rath. Price flew to take care of the problem but, hearing his parents say that it wasn't safe outside, he took a moment to protect them - by creating a giant crib.

Taking an idea of previous games with his father, Price/Captain Universe decided to confront giant monsters with other giant monsters, created from two of his toys (gorilla Kongo and dinosaur/dragon Gorga). Although Price's monsters were succesfully beating the demons, the humans were too scared of the disaster, and Price's limited understanding had a hard time seeing why. He finally decided that they were scared of dark and generated a blinding flash that also made the demons -who were trying to reach Price- disappear.

Without the monsters, the fear disappared and people turned back to normal. The Uni-Power left Price, allowing him to go back to his crib. His parents received him with open arms and a sense of pride they could not really express; and young Eddie asked for another ride of whatever had happened.

Attributes

Powers

The powers of Captain Universe are barely limited. Price was confirmed to have used:

• Flight.
• Light generation.
• Reality alteration, including creation of life simulacra from toys.

Paraphernalia

Transportation

Flight under personal power.

Notes

• Timothy's surname was given in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition #32.
• Eddie's toy monsters Gorgo and Konga share names with similar creatures from Charlton Comics series, in 1961 and 1960 respectively. Steve Ditko worked on both these series.

See Also

• 1 appearance(s) of Edward Price (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Edward Price (Earth-616)
• 1 image(s) of Edward Price (Earth-616)