Air Ace

Air Ace is a background superhero inhabiting the richly detailed world of Astro City, serving as one of the many colorful costumed figures that populate that fictional metropolis and lend it a sense of a fully lived-in superhero history.

Soaring out of the very first issue of Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's landmark Astro City in 1996, Air Ace is one of the atmospheric background figures that makes that richly imagined city feel genuinely lived-in and populated with history. A Modern Age creation from Image Comics, this character inhabits a world brimming with colorful personalities — sharing those storied pages with the likes of Jack-in-the-Box, the Confessor, and Quarrel. Though Air Ace's catalog appearances are select rather than sprawling, there's something appealing about a character woven into the very fabric of Astro City from its celebrated debut issue — a small but authentic thread in one of superhero comics' most beloved tapestries.