Ben Pullam

Ben Pullam © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Active Real Name: Ben Pullam Personal Data Relationships: Faith, Maggie (daughters) Occupation: Guide to Earth for the Ambassador, information services manager for Hemisphere Insurance (former?) Civil Status: Divorced InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Volume 2) #1 Astro City (2013) #1 Event Timeline 1996/09     Current Samaritan defeats the Iron Legion. 1996/09     Current Pullam Family Goes Sightseeing in Astro City. 1996/09     Current Heroes of Astro City battle Thunderhead. 2013/06     Current Broken Man Confides Why He Can't Use Certain People to Unlock the Mystery behind the Doors. Ben Pullam In 1992, seeking to put some distance between himself and a messy divorce, Ben Pullam moved to Astro City with his girls. Its... colorful nature was quite a shock to the Bostonian's system. In 2013, Telseth, Ambassador plenipotenitary of the alien Kvurri, appeared over Astro City, and Ben volunteered to be his guide to Earth's customs and cultures. We're sure he's glad he moved. History Ben Pullam had been a long-time resident of Boston when he and his wife divorced. He'd seen the Silversmith in action a few times and once saw the Brahmin, but that was the extent of his brushes with the superheroic world. The divorce, a messy business, left him in bad way. Hoping for a fresh start, to escape all the emotional baggage, he moved to Astro City in 1992 with his young daughters, Faith and Maggie. Just a few hours after moving in, a brawl between Samaritan and the Iron Legion landed right outside the family's door. This and various other super-incidents, in particular the deific Thunderhead's attack on the whole city, quickly convinced him Astro City was far too dangerous a place for the three of them. However, through the night of the attack and the morning after, he saw firsthand the heroism of the superheroes and the altruism this in turn inspired in the regular people. Ben realized Astro City was exactly the sort of place he wanted to raise his daughters. ("Welcome to Astro City") The years passed. Ben, an information services manager for Hemisphere Insurance, created a lucrative app that helped plan traffic routes to avoid -- or seek out, as tourists well realized -- hero/villain skirmishes. His daughters grew up and moved out; Maggie became a meeting planner for charity organizations, Faith went to Stanford to study arcanobiology. By 2013, without daughters to support, Ben found himself unsure what to do with his life. When the alien Ambassador came on Earth, Ben and a visiting Faith and Maggie went to witness him up close. When the Ambassador announced his need for an aide to teach him humanity's ways, Ben realized this was just the new challenge he sought and volunteered for the role. ("Through Open Doors (Part One)")