Franklin Richards: Happy
Franksgiving#1/5, p2, pan5 (Fantastic Four
(turkeys)p3, pan3 (city-scape with "Turkey Torch")
p5, pan3 (Franklin Richards (turkey))
p5, pan1 (T.U.R.K.I.E.)
p1, pan4 ("Reed Richards" (turkey))
EARTH-71156
Type: Alternate Earth
Environment: Earth-like
Usual means of access: Dimensional portal, presumably also vibrational attunement
Dominant Life Form: Turkeys
Significant Inhabitants: Fantastic Four (see comments), Franklin Richards, T.U.R.K.I.E.
First Appearance: Franklin Richards: Happy
Franksgiving#1/5 (January, 2007)
History:
(Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving#1/5 (fb) -
BTS) - Earth-71156 developed similar to Earth-6513 (and Earth-616)
except that turkeys became the dominant life-form and ate humans for
celebratory food. The turkey population advanced apparently in line
with the human population on Earth-6513. A turkey version of
Earth-6513's Fantastic Four was formed with the same powers, and the
turkeys "Reed Richards" and "Sue Richards" had a jake (young turkey
son) named Franklin Richards. Similarly, "Reed" created the hovering
mechanical assistant T.U.R.K.I.E. to watch over Franklin, and "Reed"
had a keen scientific mind, including interdimensional physics. But
Thanksgiving Day was soon upon them and they hoped for a human to be on
the celebratory menu. Coincidentally, Reed Richards of Earth-6513 had
built a dimensional portal that opened to the lab of the turkey "Reed"
(or, more ominously, vice versa?).
(Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving#1/5) - On
Earth-6513, the mischievous Franklin Richards absent-mindedly walked
through an open interdimensional portal looking for his father, but
crossed over to turkey-dominated Earth-71156 and encountered the turkey
"Reed". Frightened, he ran back but his path but was blocked by his
robot companion H.E.R.B.I.E.(-6513), which told him what had happened.
Intruder alerts sounded and Franklin-6513 was surrounded by the
"Fantastic Four" turkeys. Panicked, Franklin-6513 fled, but he was
eventually caught. "Reed"'s universal translator converted his "gobble
gobble" speech into human English so that the boy could understand.
Franklin-6513 was invited to be part of the dinner but it was quickly
revealed that meant he would be eaten. Franklin-6513 and
H.E.R.B.I.E.-6513 were confined in dinner stasis tubes. The robot
remained calm as it fully expected the turkey Franklin-71156 to be as
clumsy as Franklin-6513. As if on cue, Franklin-71156 appeared with
T.U.R.K.I.E. and carelessly deactivated the prisons. The Earth-6513
denizens rushed for the portal and escaped home, leaving Franklin-71156
standing inept.
Comments: Created by Marc Sumerak & Chris Eliopoulos.
Given Franklin's Earth-71156 counterpart is also
called Franklin Richards, I think it's safe to say the team is still
called the Fantastic Four and their civilian names also remain the
same--although the Invisible Woman would likely be the Invisible Hen
and the Human Torch would be the Turkey Torch.
(Maybe the Baxter Building should be called the Baster Building?) And
on that note, an adult male turkey is called tom or gobbler (so
Spider-Tom instead of Spider-Man, when contemplating the Earth-71156
versions of the Spider-family), jake for a juvenile male (Spider-Jake
instead of Spider-Boy), hen for an adult female (Spider-Hen instead of
Spider-Woman), and jenny for a juvenile female (Spider-Jenny instead of
Spider-Girl). I don't think we've seen either Spider-Tom in the
Spider-Verse or the turkey Reed Richards in the Interdimensional
Council of Reeds. It does raise other interesting questions: Did the
Inhumans ever arise and continue into the 20th Century on Earth-71154,
or were they adapted into Inturkeys (or eaten up by the dominant
turkeys)? All sorts of thoughts to gobble on...
Presumably Reed Richards can stretch his snood (fleshy protuberance over the beak) just like the rest of his body. (Maybe Captain Universe in Earth-71156 is called Captain Snoodiverse?)
This profile was completed 11/16/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-71156 has no known connections to:
Franklin Richards of Earth-71156 was the young turkey
son (jake) of the "Fantastic Four" of the turkey-dominated Earth. Like
his Earth-6513 counterpart, he was clumsy and a bit self-indulgent; his
parents had made the robot companion T.U.R.K.I.E. to watch over him.
When Franklin-71156 found out they had a captured a live human
(Franklin-6513 and his robot companion) and kept in a stasis tube,
ready to be made into a Thanksgiving meal, he looked in and foolishly
released the prisoners. Franklin-6513 and his robot H.E.R.B.I.E.
escaped home via an interdimensional portal.
--Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving#1/5
T.U.R.K.I.E. was the robot companion, assistant and child-minder of Franklin Richards of Earth-71156. Like its Earth-6513 counterpart H.E.R.B.I.E., it could levitate and usually accompanied Franklin inside the building. T.U.R.K.I.E. was designed with more turkey design features, such as mechanical tail feathers and a beak-ish head.
T.U.R.K.I.E. accompanied Franklin-71156
as he went to have a look at the imprisoned wayward human Franklin
Richards and H.E.R.B.I.E., with Franklin-6513 set to be cooked for
Thanksgiving dinner the next day. However, Franklin-71156 foolishly
released the prisoners and T.U.R.K.I.E. was too slow in stopping them
escape.
--Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving#1/5
images:
(without ads)
Franklin Richards: Happy
Franksgiving#1/5, p2, pan5 (Fantastic Four
(turkeys)
p3, pan3 (city-scape with "Turkey Torch")
p5, pan3 (Franklin Richards (turkey))
p5, pan1 (T.U.R.K.I.E.)
p1, pan4 ("Reed Richards" (turkey))
Appearances:
Franklin Richards: Happy Franksgiving#1/5 (January, 2007) - Marc
Sumerak (writer), Chris Eliopoulos (art), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.
First posted: 09/22/2026
Last Updated:
11/16/2025
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