Benny Beckley was a young boy from a happy home. His Mom and Dad were the directors of the Edmund Project which worked with NASA and MIT to study comets. It was during one of these studies that Benny's father was seemingly killed when his space ship exploded.

Later, Steven Beckley came back to Earth now as Comet Man to find his family only to be tricked by David Hilbert an agent of BRIDGE. Hilbert then forcibley escorted Ann and Benny to a Goverment Detention Center in Virginia. There Hilbert planned on studing and experimenting on Benny Beckley to see if he had the same powers as his father. Ann tried to escape with Benny, but was killed by an electrical fence when running away from a helicopter. Bennty witnessed her death. Comet Man managed to teleport to his son's location, but only to witness him die in an experiment by BRIDGE. Steven manged to revive Benny by transfering some of power into him. This was how Benny got his powers.