Mrs. Dobrescu

Tucked into the richly human world of Astro City, Mrs. Dobrescu made her debut in 1995's Kurt Busiek's Astro City #4 — the celebrated series where Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson built a superhero universe around the everyday lives of ordinary people. She's the kind of character that makes Astro City special: a face in the neighborhood, sharing pages with icons like Jack-in-the-Box and Winged Victory while grounding their extraordinary world in something warm and recognizable. Spanning three decades of publication across DC's Astro City titles, she's a quiet testament to the series' belief that every soul in a superhero city has a story worth telling.