* During the story arc where Curtis and his Mom were mugged and she [[TearJerker suffers a miscarriage]]....before it happens (after the mugger punched her) she fights him off by giving an awesome kick to the groin!
* A 2000 arc in which Curtis' dad giving up smoking, which won Billingsley an award from the American Lung Association.
* In a more recent storyline, where Curtis gets the three bullies at his school arrested.
* Curtis ''finally'' has enough of Derrick and "Onion"'s bullying, and [[PutTheirHeadsTogether knocks their heads]] (plus the head of an third unnamed tormentor) together with a resounding '''''KLUNK'''''.
* After years of the status quo, Curtis finally mans up and gets to tell [[http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/111/11179/1117987.gif Diane that Barry finally did something worthy of punishment.]]
* In an April 2015 arc, we learned that Curtis's father ''[[BigDamnHeroes jumped into the path of an oncoming train]]'' to save a baby's life!