The Astro-Naut

The Astro-Naut © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Presumed Deceased Earliest Appearance: mid to late 1930s Base of Operations: Romeyn Falls Personal Data InfoDump Headlines: 1943: Astro-Naut Captures Ersatz Ed Unknown: Astro-Naut Exposes Fifth Columnists First Mentioned: in newspaper headline Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #2 Event Timeline 1936     Flashback Virgil Air Systems Test Flies an Early Model Air Turbine Glider Over Romeyn Falls. 1936     Flashback Joseph Greenwald Meets Roy Vigil(Astro-Naut). 1942     Flashback Mayor Greenwald Takes An Unexpected Journey Into Near-Space. 1943     Headline Astro-naut Captures Ersatz Ed. The Astro-Naut Speculations, Theories It's generally believed that he sacrificed himself to save Romeyn Falls from imminent destruction. The town then renamed itself after the Astro-Naut, with the rocket beacon on AstroBank Tower serving as a signal to heroes so that, hopefully, nothing like what happened in 1946 will ever happen again.