Professor Dr. Amadeus Sharp Ph.D., head of the Special Projects Labs (SPL), created a new form of technology to augment humans through bionics. His first subject was Jack Bennett, a test pilot who secretly acted as Sharp's field agent, Bionic-1. On a family ski vacation in the Himalayas, an alien spacecraft triggered an avalanche that buried the entire family, exposing them to the unusual radiation of a mysterious buried object. Jack freed himself but discovered his family in a comatose state. Theorizing that Jack's bionics protected him from the radiation, Professor Sharp implanted bionic technology in the others, awakening them. Afterward, the family operates incognito as a publicly-lauded team of adventuring superheroes, the Bionic Six.