ElectronBoy

His real name was Erik Martin, but many people inspired by the terminally ill young superhero fan knew him simply as his alter ego, Electron Boy. Last year, the Make-A-Wish foundation helped Martin bring his superhero dreams to life in Seattle, where he donned an original Electron Boy costume for an elaborately planned adventure that involved saving the day on the Space Needle and capturing the v

Back in April, Capstone Comics Publishing writer Rob Bass read a newspaper article that detailed the debut of Electron Boy, a superhero alter ego created for the severely ill Erik Martin by the Make-A-Wish Foundation in response to the 13-year-old's wish to be a superhero...

Superman, Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man only exist in the realm of fiction, but that doesn't mean there aren't superheroes out there in the world. It appears that many of these heroes work for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as the organization recently fulfilled Erik Martin's own superhero aspirations through a series of elaborately-staged, but no less meaningful events...