HEROES REBORN: THE RETURN #1 – FRANKLIN RICHARDS VARIANT – SALVADOR LARROCA – 1997

HEROES REBORN: THE RETURN #1 – FRANKLIN RICHARDS VARIANT – SALVADOR LARROCA – 1997

DECEMBER 1997

CHARACTERS – ABE JENKINS, ANNA MAY WATSON, ASHEMA, BARON HELMUT ZEMO, BISHOP, CAPTAIN AMERICA, CYCLOPS, FRANKLIN RICHARDS, HULK, HUMAN TORCH, INVISIBLE WOMAN, IRON BOY, JEAN GREY, MAN-THING, MISTER FANTASTIC, MOONSTONE, QUICKSILVER, SCARLET WITCH, SONGBIRD, SPIDER-MAN, THING, THOR, WASP, WOLVERINE, ZIRAN THE TESTER

STORYLINE – THE JUDGEMENT

All of Earth’s heroes remain trapped on a Counter-Earth! Franklin Richards has the power of choice. Two worlds exist. He must build a life on one of these worlds, while the other will be destroyed. This series is a direct sequel to the Onslaught event!

Franklin Richards has visions of being in a life raft as New York floods, while accompanied by a woman who ominously tells him of choices he must make. He wakes up in the Everglades where the Man-Thing has been watching over him. He inadvertently knocks his ball into the water, and it is snapped up by a hungry alligator. Franklin becomes angry, and using his powers destroys the reptile to retrieve the ball that is so important to him.

Elsewhere, Peter Parker views a television retrospective about the anniversary of the “deaths” of the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. In New York City, the Hulk screams in pain. And, yet somewhere else, something crashes to earth, obliterating an observatory, then taking the form of a woman.

PUBLISHER – MARVEL COMICS

WRITER – Peter David

INTERIOR ART – Salvador Larroca

COVER ART – SALVADOR LARROCA, TIM TOWNSEND, CHRISTIAN LICHTNER, LIQUID GRAPHICS

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