Elliot Mills
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Elliot Mills
Elliot Mills began reporting for the Astro City Rocket in 1959, and has been managing editor since 1991. A Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the memoir "Through Shining Eyes," few know the city as well as he does.
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Vitals
Status: Active as of 2004
Real Name: Elliot Mills
Debut: Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #2
Born: Around 1937-1938 presumed
Occupation: Managing Editor
Hometown: Astro City [edit] History
Elliot Mills got his first job as a reporter for the Rocket in 1959. After a few drinks, while walking home, he stumbled upon a cult which was hanging a gutted shark and performing some sort of ritual. He soon saw that they were summoning Shirak the Devourer. However, Honor Guard soon showed up. While they put up a good fight, however, he knew they were hopelessly outnumbered, as Shirak had turned the cult into shark-like creatures. However, the Old Soldier soon showed up, and they defeated by destroying the altar on which they performed their ritual. When he wrote this fantastic story, the editor at the time demanded that it be re-written. Eventually, he had stripped the article down to the hard facts which could be proven. While Elliot was frustrated at the time, he later realized the editor was right, as the Rocket could only print the facts.
Five decades later, he met and interviewed the pseudonymous "Charles Williams" and "Royal Williams" for a book he was writing on Astro City's "dark age" of the late 70s to mid 80s. Their real names unrevealed, the "Williams" were brothers who had witnessed many key events of that period, were even personally involved in a few, and Mills's original plan was to use them as one of his sources. However, after interviewing the Williams, he decided to narrow the focus of the book to their personal saga, using it a lens through which to view those years. He supplied their pseudonyms to protect their identities. [edit] Appearances:
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #2 Astro City: The Dark Age Book Four #4
