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universe = [[Marvel Universe]]
| base_of_operations = Originally Rocky Mountains, Colorado; later Carmody Institute, New England, on the coast of Maine
| debut = Marvel: The Lost Generation #12 (2000)
| origin = Marvel: The Lost Generation #2 (2000)
| significant_issues = Yankee Clipper, Effigy, Kid Justice, Liberty Girl, Black Fox and Nightingale formed the team (Marvel: The Lost Generation #2, 2000); Liberty Girl died, Yankee Clipper lost in timestream (Marvel: The Lost Generation #4, 2000); Black Fox, Pixie, Mr Justice, Oxbow, Major Mercury, Rebound and Frank team-up with Thor (Marvel: The Lost Generation #5, 2000); First Line flies to the moon on skrull ship (Marvel: The Lost Generation #6, 2000); President Nixon plans to outlaw the First Line (Marvel: The Lost Generation #7, 2000); First Line reunites to save Mr Justice, Blackjack dies (Marvel: The Lost Generation #9, 2000); Effigy intents to rebuild the First Line (Marvel: The Lost Generation #10, 2000); First Line dies (Marvel: The Lost Generation #12, 2000)
| current_members = Disbanded
| former_members = [[Black Fox (Robert Paine)|Black Fox]] (Robert Paine), [[Blackjack]], [[Doctor Mime]], [[Effigy]] (Velmax), [[Eternal Brain]] (William Carmody), [[Firefall (unrevealed)|Firefall]], [[Flatiron]] (Russell), [[Frankenstein's Monster|Frank]], [[Katyusha]] (Anya), [[Templar|Knight Templar]] (Ian Fitzwilliam Dare), [[Liberty Girl]](Beverly), [[Makkari|Major Mercury]] (Makkari), [[Mister Justice]] (Tim Carney, a.k.a. Kid Justice), [[Morph]], [[Nightingale]], [[Oxbow]] (Sam Matonabbe), [[Pixie (Eternal)|Pixie]], [[Positron (Veronica)|Positron]] (Veronica), [[Rapunzel]], [[Rebound (First Line)|Rebound]], [[Reflex]], [[Vulcan (First Line)|Vulcan]], [[Walkabout]], [[Yankee Clipper (Patrick Carney)|Yankee Clipper]] (Patrick Carney), [[Yeti (Inhuman)|Yeti]]; others unspecified
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{{teamhistory|
bio_text = For decades the First Line defended the world from threats both home-grown and alien. The group formed in 1958 when [[Yankee Clipper (Patrick Carney)|Yankee Clipper]], [[Liberty Girl]], and [[Black Fox (Robert Paine)|Black Fox]] were brought together by [[Effigy|Agent Scott]] of the NSA to investigate security breaches at a Long Island research center, where scientists were secretly studying a downed UFO. There the heroes encountered both the [[Monster Hunters]] and a couple of super-villains hired by [[Chimera (Zuhn)|Zuhn]], the [[Skrulls|Skrull]] whose ship was being examined. Ironically Agent Scott was really Velmax, Zuhn's shipmate, though neither alien recognized the other. Zuhn shot Velmax with a bio-moleculizer, causing him to lose control of his form, but the heroes assumed he had been mutated. Velmax became the metamorph Effigy, joining with [[Nightingale]], a healer, and the three heroes he had gathered to form the First Line at the Clipper's suggestion.

Over the years the group gained and lost members, and fought threats such as the [[Red Front]], the [[Yellow Claw]], the amnesiac [[Sub-Mariner]], the [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] [[Rumor]], the mind-controlled [[Venus]], the lunatic therianthrope [[Howler (unrevealed)|Howler]], the criminal [[Typhoon (unrevealed)|Typhoon]], [[Axis]], the [[Scythe (criminal)|Scythe]], the vampiric [[Nocturne (unrevealed)|Nocturne]], [[Kang]], [[Kro|Warlord Kro]] and the [[Deviants]], [[Blackjack]] and [[Positron (Veronica)|Positron]]; the latter two later reformed and joined the Line themselves. Among their allies were [[Captain Hip|Hipster]] (later Captain Hip), [[Sunshine]], [[Thor (Thor Odinson)|Thor]], [[Fury, Nick|Nick Fury]] and [[Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)|Dr. Strange]], and several of their adventures were covertly witnessed by 22nd century time-traveler [[Locke, Cassandra (alternate future)|Cassandra Locke]].

The team faced both triumphs and tragedies. In November 1963 Liberty Girl was slain by Chimera (Zuhn in a new identity), and Yankee Clipper was lost to them, sent hurtling decades into the future. In 1969 they stopped a Skrull plan to destroy the Apollo 11 mission to land on the Moon; [[Mister Justice|Mr. Justice]] placed evidence there proving Skrull plots which would thwart the shape-shifters again in Locke's era. Around 1973 the group disbanded rather than let Nixon use them to suppress Watergate, and Effigy became reporter Bob Woodward's "Deep Throat."

A new incarnation of the team formed in the early 1980's to rescue Mr. Justice, who had been shot down over Halwan, but their mission proved to be a decoy; Blackjack was killed, and Black Fox quit in disgust. Effigy, however, decided to keep the Line together as a loose-knit grouping lasting several years. Another member, the [[Inhumans|Inhuman]] [[Yeti (Inhuman)|Yeti]], lost control in an unspecified conflict involving [[Rapunzel]], after which he exiled himself in shame; Yeti was later seduced by a [[Skrulls|Skrull]] spy, [[Korya]], who turned him into a sympathizer in their subsequent invasion of Earth. Another Skrull spy, [[Zankor]], was captured and revealed the imminent massive fleet on its way.

The First Line assembled many of Earth's superhumans and met the incoming warships above the surface of the Moon. Most of these champions died, but Effigy and [[Pixie (Eternal)|Pixie]] managed to set off a chain reaction which blew up the armada. Yeti made it to an escape pod prior to the end, and Pixie and [[Makkari]] both survived the explosions to eventually be reunited with Yankee Clipper. The First Line, however, was finished; Earth was saved, but it had lost an entire generation of heroes.
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