He eventually loved the idea, and so that was my taste of writing. I got bored and I thought I should create something rather than take one of the jobs that were already there, so I proposed the idea for "Power Pack" to Shooter. But then Shooter hired a whole batch of new editors, and my workload was cut in half. I had resisted Shooter's encouragement to write stuff or do freelance stuff because I thought he had writers whose livelihoods depended on their doing books and it didn't feel fair to take the work away from them.
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Louise Simonson was encouraged to think of a series she could write, and eventually she pitched a team of pre-teen siblings with superpowers called Power Pack. Publication history Original series ĭuring the early 1980s, Marvel Comics had a policy that all their editors should also be writers. 3.2 Julie, Excelsior/Loners, Avengers Academy and Future Foundation.3.1 Alex, New Warriors and the Future Foundation.Along with fighting aliens and super-villains, the team's stories were known for focusing on morality debates and social issues such as child abuse, homelessness, drug abuse, bullying, and the ethics of using excessive or lethal force in combat. The children band together as the superhero team Power Pack. The dying alien called Whitey, a scientist of the Kymellian race, transfers one of his four superpowers to each of the Power children so they can save their planet from the alien conquerors known as the Snarks. The team consists of four siblings: Alex Power, Julie Power, Jack Power, and Katie Power. In 2005, the title was relaunched as a series aimed at younger readers-though this was eventually declared a separate continuity from that of the original series and the mainstream Marvel Universe. Power Pack is the first team of pre-teen superheroes in the Marvel Universe and the first team of heroes in comics to feature characters of that age operating without adult supervision. Created by writer Louise Simonson and artist June Brigman, they first appeared in their own series in 1984, which lasted 62 issues, and have since appeared in other books. Power Pack is a fictional team of superheroes consisting of four young siblings appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.