That night, he also met Doctor Manhattan, whom he told that he will spend his retirement repairing cars. He retired in 1962 and a ceremony was given in his honor with dinner, and he was given a statue engraved with the words "In Gratitude". The feeling made him feel obsolete and ponder his next steps. In 1960 he attended a Red Cross charity event for the India famine there he met the new adventurers, Ozymandias and Doctor Manhattan. The era was dominated with a sense of impending catastrophe. The 1950s were a depressing period for him with minor and sordid cases. The cover-up did not help the decline of the Minutemen and they disbanded in 1949. He stopped colorful criminals like the Screaming Skull and went on to fight Axis operatives including Captain Axis. Minutemen EraĪfter the Comedian attempted to rape Sally Jupiter, Hollis supported his expulsion. In the scuffle Hollis' hood had been partially pulled off of his head which ended up completely blocking the view out of one of his eyes, after this he decided to fix his mask in place against his head by using spirit gum.
During his first outing as the Nite Owl in 1939, he'd been struggling with a violent drunk who was wielding a knife. Then, as his vigilante suit was ready, he begun wearing it underneath his regular police uniform. Because of this and for declining all invitations he received from his fellow officers to go with them for drinks after work he was nicknamed "Night Owl" by another officer at the precinct, which he then modified and adopted as the name for his new vigilante persona.Īs a New York City police officer, Hollis had urged to be assigned a route that would have him patrol some of the more troubled areas of the city. and heading to the gymnasium for training before donning his badge and uniform. Adding a strict regime of going to bed at 9:00 p.m., waking at 5:00 a.m.
Hollis spent the better part of three months designing his suit, trying to come up with a name for his vigilante persona and training as often as possible in the police gymnasium. Mason wondered if such heroes could really exist and then two weeks later, he heard of the exploits of the real-life vigilante Hooded Justice. After reading through it back-to-back eight times in a row, Hollis' childhood fantasies of grand heroism would return to him. He joined the New York City Police Department in the year 1938, at one point snatching a Superman comic from the hands of a neighborhood youngster. The sense of justice instilled in Mason by his grandfather along with this new idea of how the world should be, spurred him on to train as a police officer. Those who were wholly good punishing the ones who did evil, despite the violence depicted in these stories and supposed repressed sexual urges he thought it looked like a perfect world. Hollis was also fond of "pulp stories" involving Doc Savage and the Shadow, especially alluring to him was the world in which they lived where it seemed that morality, in his mind, worked as it was supposed to. He would fantasize about heroically saving her from kidnappers and then marrying her afterwards. Albertine, who was engaged to an English teacher at the same school by the name of Mr. Becoming a Police Officer Comic Book HeroismĪt 14 years of age, Hollis found himself stricken by his math teacher, Ms. Though they were quick to stop and apologize to the man for doing so, he in turn forgives them but ends up taking his own life later the same day. Mason and his father, most likely due to the bizarre nature of the scene before them, begin to laugh at him. One day they found Vernon sitting alone, listening to Richard Wagner, wearing a pair of fake breasts and tells them how his wife had left him and had cheated on him for two years. Ride of the ValkyriesĮven so, Mason assisted his father with work and at times ran errands for the owner of the repair shop, Moe Vernon, who in turn would come to enjoy the company of the young man.
Longing to go back to Montana, where his grandfather had stayed, and knowing that his father felt guilty for leaving, he'd often say that he would rather return there than stay in the city whenever he ended up squabbling with his father. When Mason was 12 years old, his father decided to take him and his sister Liantha away from the family farm in Montana and move to New York City where his father found work at Vernon's Auto Repairs.
Instilling in him a sense of what was good and just in the world which would be a part of him for the rest of his life. Named after his grandfather, Hollis Wordsworth Mason, who also saw to it that his grandson received a proper moral, conservative and god-fearing upbringing. Mason was born into a family of Irish immigrant farmers in 1916 who had settled in the state of Montana.
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