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Bob Franklin
Former child piano prodigy from "The Prodigy" story of comic book Forbidden Worlds #59 (October 1957). He seems to hate music as an adult, and has other eccentric habits which concern his new wife, Alice. Bob's sister explains that Bob was a child piano prodigy who toured the country at age 9. At age 12, he threw a fit and refused to ever perform again. Now, at age 35, Bob suddenly retires and moves him and his wife to Salzburg, Austria. There he finally confesses that he thinks he's the reincarnation of Mozart, and is doomed to die at the same age Mozart did, 35.
Alice fakes a stroke to distract Bob on the day of Mozart's death until the next day. This saves Bob, but he avoids music, especially Mozart, from then on.
Bob also outperforms renowned professional pianist Franz Klaus in performing a Mozart sonata.
