We present a family of sense-preserving harmonic mappings in the unit disk related to the classical generalized (analytic) Koebe functions. We prove that these are precisely the mappings that maximize simultaneously the real part of every Taylor coefficient as well as the growth and distortion of functions in affine and linear invariant families of complex-valued harmonic functions.(2) (n + 1)a n+1 = 2a 2 a n + (n − 1) a n−1 must be satisfied by the coefficients of each mapping ϕ ∈ S whose n−th Taylor coefficient has maximum real part. By denoting the n-th Taylor coefficient of a function ϕ ∈ S by a n (ϕ), we see that the Koebe function (1) has the property that sup ϕ∈S Re{a n (ϕ)} = Re{a n (k)} = a n (k) Date: November 3, 2015. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 31A05, 30C50.