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Appearing in "Hamster Havoc!"

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  • Mayor of New York City (Unnamed)

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Synopsis for "Hamster Havoc!"

Franklin receives a hamster for a pet but attempts to transfer it into the pet he really wanted which is a dog. What occurs is that his hamster ends up being as large as a skyscraper until H.E.R.B.I.E. saves the day and shrinks him back down to normal size.

Appearing in "Telepathy Terror!"

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  • Katie Power (Mentioned)
  • Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)

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Synopsis for "Telepathy Terror!"

Franklin wants to find out if Katie Power likes him and so he digs through his fathers stuff and finds a Telepathy Helmet to use on her. Once he puts on the helmet however he begins to see visions of someone thinking him harm. He searches the building as to whom it could be only to find out that it's H.E.R.B.I.E. who sometimes thinks those thoughts after getting put through all the situations with Franklin but that he would never act on those thoughts.

Appearing in "Speed Demon"

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  • Chester

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  • Speed Enhancer

Synopsis for "Speed Demon"

Franklin tests out his father's Seed Enhancer in order to beat Katie in a race. While testing the device he can't get it to stop and H.E.R.B.I.E. comes to his rescue. The following day Franklin is too tired to even participate in the race.

Appearing in "Ocean-Ape Escape!"

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  • Ocean-Ape (Unnamed)

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Synopsis for "Ocean-Ape Escape!"

Franklin orders some "Ocean-Apes" out of an old comic starring his family. When they arrive they bore him. HERBIE accidently gives Franklin an idea to use his father's growth powder on them. Franklin does so and the two are attacked by a large ocean ape. Squid Kid who was in the lab, steps in to fight off the Ocean-Ape but the two fall in love with each other and fly off into the sunset.

Appearing in "Turkey Trouble!"

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  • Dimensional Portal

Synopsis for "Turkey Trouble!"

Franklin enters a transdimentional doorway of his father's making on Thanksgiving. He soon finds himself in a world with humanoid turkeys. The turkeys who look like his family in turkey form subdue Franklin and H.E.R.B.I.E.. When the translator starts to work the Turkey version of his father apologizes and asks Franklin to stay for their Thanksgiving dinner. It's soon realized that they aim to cook Franklin when they imprison him and H.E.R.B.I.E.. Thankfully this world's version soon enters the chamber their being held and frees them by accident which allows Franklin and H.E.R.B.I.E. to escape back to their Earth where they have their Thanksgiving dinner, although Franklin is put off from eating the turkey.

Appearing in "A New Light"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Civil War: Choosing Sides #1

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Synopsis for "A New Light"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Civil War: Choosing Sides #1

During a night out with her family in Springfield, Illinois, Harley Davidson-Cooper inadvertently causes a blackout. This causes Iron Man and the Avengers to get a reading on her energy signature. Spider-Man is informed as he's webbing up members of the Sinister Six. However, after he leaves, Sandman frees the captured villains and they decide to follow the wall-crawler to Springfield in hopes of recruiting the superhuman as their sixth member. When Harley's location is discovered by both sides, a fight breaks out between the Sinister Six and and the Avengers plus Harley. In the middle of the battle, Harley makes contact with Hydro-Man and the water shorts out her powers, possibly permanently. With the villains defeated, Iron Man gives her an Avengers Priority Card, so that she can contact them if she ever finds herself in danger again.

Solicit Synopsis

The Eisner Award-nominated and three-time Harvey Award-nominated Son of a Genius returns in Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving! Special.

This all-new Franklin special by Marc Sumerak and Chris Eliopoulos features five more exciting adventures of the precocious son of Reed and Sue Richards, one half of the Fantastic Four. It's five times the fun as Franklin pushes his robotic baby-sitter and sidekick H.E.R.B.I.E. to his cybernetic limits.

Ain't It Cool News described the Franklin stories as "the most fun I had reading a comic in a very long time. Chris Eliopoulos and Marc Sumerak are making comic book gold."

See what all the buzz is about as the Lab Brat and Son of a Genius returns with five wacky, side-splitting short stories in Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving! Special.

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  • 32 full color pages, Price: $2.99

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