Electric Bolt back with the fourth and final disk on this session’s mystery-men, the Minutemen of America. Process and receive in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....

Nite-Owl

    In 1939 23-year-old Hollis Masen becomes a New York City policeman. But not content to simply contain crime, Hollis longs to do more, especially after discovering comics (in particular the Superman comics from late 1938) and wishing he could battle crime like the comic book heroes. When Hooded Justice becomes the first real-life masked adventurer. Hollis Mason, decides to follow his example. Hollis gets into shape and devises a costume, but what to call his secret alter ego? Since his fellow officers humorously nicknamed him “night-owl” for refusing to go out after work, Hollis throws the joke back in their faces and calls himself Nite-Owl. Now possessing a name and a costume, Hollis steps forth to battle crime on his own terms. Before long media attention creates a mystery-man (and mystery-woman) fad, and Nite-Owl joins other masked crimefighters in the Minutemen of America, a group in which Nite-Owl serves proudly until its final days in late 1949. Thereafter Nite-Owl works on his own but with less effectiveness until he retires in May 1962 to become an auto mechanic. Nite-Owl possesses great athletic abilities and a keen set of detective skills, but more importantly a strong moral sense, which raised him above more dubious heroes.

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