First Family Cases and Adventures
The adventures and discoveries of the First Family from the monster hunting of the Furst Brothers in the 1950s to the multi-generational family of explorers of today.
Contents
1950
- Augustus discovers the existence of Onggu the Omnivorous in Romania, draining energy from local power plants.[1]
- A few months later, some other scientific discovery in Malaysia, was enough to get Dr. Furst on the cover of Time magazine.[1]
1954
Mid-1950s
1964
(Approximately) June 19:
- Dr. Furst battled Space Spiders in Cyprus.[4]
1971
- Discovered that Julius Furst's twin from the Worst Family was selling nuclear secrets to the Kardonese.[5]
1972
Mid-to Late October:
- Stopped The Tourist from taking Mount Rushmore as a souvenir and drawing the wrath of the military for letting the alien go.[6]
- A few days later busted up Omnicron.[7]
- Stopped an invasion from Monstro City led by Rex a few days later on the East Coast somewhere.[8]
1973
Late February:
- Protected Rex from angry mobs who wanted jailed for his attempted invasion, after he changed his ways and started hanging around with the family.[9]
1995
Early/Mid November:
- Stopped the Unholy Alliance's attack on Binderbeck Plaza. [10]
1996
Early January:
- Along with the Black Rapier helped vanquish Wotan in Chicago. [11]
September:
- Helped defend Astro City during Thunderhead's attack on the city. [12]
November 10:
- Defeated the Silver Brain after he escaped from the Mento-Verse using the Gorilla Swarm as his troops. They later had to repair the rift to keep the dimension closed. [13]
November 11-13:
- Searched the world and off of it, trying to locate Astra. Tried looking in Monstro City and with Kaspian in Eastern Europe. Then sought out Praetor, Lord Volcanus and Kratorr to see if they had any involvement with Astra's disappearance. [14]
1997
July:
- Visited the Mirror Galaxy at some point and returned in Late July. [15]
August 5:
- Side-stepped dimensions to break free of the Enelsian blockade of their headquarters to help defend Astro City during the Enelsian Invasion. Dr. Furst was the one who cracked the Enelsian Communication code. [16]
1998
Late November:
- Fought with The Mechanimator's robots in St. Louis as part of the Conquistador's Plot.[17]
2004
August:
- Off in another dimension on some kind of adventure.[18]
Early to Mid-October:
- Along with Honor Guard and other heroes, helped defeat the awakened Omnius Rex.[19]
Unknown
- Fought with Kratorr another eight or nine times between 1954 and November 1996. [2]
- Fought with Madame Majestrix over the Gemension Jewel, which transported her elsewhere. Likely sometime in early to mid-1996, but could have happened before that.[20]
- The group was a part of the Forgotten Time Crisis, fighting off the evil that threatened the timestream. At one point in the early 1970s the family witnessed Astro City itself disappear. [21]
- At some point, defeated the Silver Brain and his Anti-Bodies, in Astro City. Prior to Early October 2004.[22]
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #1. Page 8. Panel 1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #3. Page 15.
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<ref>tag; name "2:3.1" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #2. Page 5. Panel 2.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #3. Page 6.
- ↑ Astro City: Local Heroes #4. Page 20. Panel 2.
- ↑ Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #1. Page 22. Panel 3.
- ↑ Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #2. Page 4. Panel 5.
- ↑ Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #2. Page 10. Panel 1.
- ↑ Astro City: The Dark Age Book One #2. Page 19. Panel 2.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #4. Page 18.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #6. Page 16.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #1. Page 10.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #2. Page 19.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #3.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #6. Page 14. Panel 1.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #9. Page 12. Panel 1.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #20. Page 2. Panel 2.
- ↑ Astro City Special Supersonic #1. Page 3. Panel 3.
- ↑ Astro City: A Visitor's Guide Page 8. Panel 2.
- ↑ Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #3. Page 4. Panel 3.
- ↑ Wizard Presents: Kurt Busiek's Astro City #1/2. Page 13. Panel 1.
- ↑ Astro City: A Visitor's Guide Page 3. Panel 5.
