When kids go power! Pre-teen superteam Power Pack turns 40 this year

The idea of pre-teens learning how to use their superpowers made Power Pack an interesting read for similarly aged comics fans when it was released in 1984 — Photos: Marvel Comics

Forty years ago, I read a newspaper article with the same headline as the one above, and got immediately hooked on the Marvel Universe’s first pre-teen super team, aka Power Pack.

Being a pre-teen myself at the time, I loved Power Pack because I could resonate with the characters’ problems – from the pressures of school, parents and peers, to their problems with acne and crushes.