Titan (Dark Horse Comics)

Titan
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
First appearance	Comics Greatest World: Golden City Week 2 (Cameo)
Created by	Mike Richardson Team CGW
In-story information
Alter ego	Frank Wells
Team affiliations	Alderwoman Faith Perdue
Notable aliases	Mr. Red, White, and Blue
Abilities	flight, invulnerability, super-strength, super-speed, heightened endurance, imperviousness to pain, ability to return from the dead

Titan (Frank Wells) was a Dark Horse Comics superhero. He first appeared in Comics' Greatest World: Golden City Week 3 (1993). He was created and written by Mike Richardson (publisher) and the other members of Team CGW. He was part of the Comics' Greatest World "16 issues, 16 weeks, 16 bucks" event.

He first appeared in the third month of the event making a cameo appearance in Golden City Week 2 and featuring strongly in Golden City Weeks 3 and 4 (July/August 1993). He was then a regular character in Catalyst: Agents of Change issues 1 through 4 (February–May 1994). In June of that year, he starred in his own one shot. He was then the feature character in the Will To Power mini-series, which ran from June through August 1994.

Frank Wells was the son of a US Marine Sergeant. Sgt. Wells was physically and mentally abusive to both Frank and his mother. At a young age, Frank’s super-strength manifested and he began protecting his mother from his father’s abuse.

He hated me for being different. In his mind I was better than he was.

Eventually, Sgt. Wells was sent to Vietnam, where he was killed by a sniper. The Wells family moved off the base into town, where the other kids bullied Frank. Over the years, the bullying grew steadily worse until high school. Frank stole a football uniform and ran onto the field during a game. Taking the ball, he plowed through the players on both sides, leaving a "trail of broken bodies littering the field".

Never even looking back, Frank left town, eventually finding his way to Golden City and the woman known only as Amazing Grace. Almost immediately upon arrival, agents of Grace picked Frank up. He was put through a rigorous series of tests, greatly impressing everyone, from Grace to her top aids and scientists. Everyone that is except Madison:

You’re making a big mistake. I don’t think Frank here has the guts to do the job.

Against Madison’s objections, Grace unveiled Frank as the American icon, Titan. He was eventually given a boy sidekick named Elmore Meyer AKA Golden Boy. However, on Golden Boy's first solo mission a villain captured Golden Boy, resulting in the loss of an eye and his being retired from duty (actually, Madison mind-wiped him so he would forget his time with Titan).

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