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First appearing on the scene in 1936, the Clock is considered to be the first masked hero of the modern era. Having inherited enough money to be part of the idle rich set, Brian O'Brien decided to fight crime. After being tutored by the Orchid, who had battled evil in the moral cesspool that was 1920s Los Angeles, he set about to clean up the streets of New York. He would leave notes with the criminals he defeated reading "The Clock Has Struck". Aiding him was former boxer Pat "Pug" Brady, who resembled O'Brien enough that he could eventually double for him. Over the next few years, he met numerous other crimefighters and made friends with many of them.

In 1941, Pug planned on getting married and so they amicably broke the partnership. Some time afterwards, the Clock was wounded in a gunfight and, in a delirious state, stumbled into what he thought was a deserted shack. However, it was home to a runaway teen girl named Henrietta "Butch" Buchanan, who believed the handsome stranger was a masked gangster. Fancying herself a moll, she nursed him back to health, and then she attached herself to him as his new partner.

After dealing with years of issues with his curtain mask, he eventually changed it to a less fashionable, but more practical domino mask. In the fall of 1944, the monstrous Claw attacked New York again. The Clock was able to thwart it's plans, but the fiend crushed him to death in retaliation. Although not the first masked hero to die in action (#711, the Comet, and the Ghost had also been killed, the latter also by the talons of the Claw), he was the most popular, and his funeral was attended by most of the masked crimefighters of the time. Butch mourned his death for a time before going on to establish her own heroic legacy, but that's a story for another time.

The Clock was a skilled amateur criminologist. He was fairly skilled hand to hand combatant and used a weighted cane as a weapon. He was also skilled with a pistol and could hypnotize others.

The Clock is a character in public domain, created by George Brunner pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Clock His first appearances were Funny Pages #6 and Funny Picture Stories #1 (they both came out in Nov. 1936) published by Centaur Comics. When Brunner went to work for Quality, he took the Clock feature with him, and the Clock appeared from Dec. 1937 to Fall 1944 in first Feature Funnies and then Crack Comics. The character has been used by Malibu, DC, and Dynamite Comics.

The unique elements of the character above is property of Sidney Osinga aka.

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First appearing on the scene in 1936, the Clock is considered to be the first masked hero of the modern era. Having inherited enough money to be part of the idle rich set, Brian O'Brien decided to fight crime. After being tutored by the Orchid, who had battled evil in the moral cesspool that was 1920s Los Angeles, he set about to clean up the streets of New York. He would leave notes with the criminals he defeated reading "The Clock Has Struck". Aiding him was former boxer Pat "Pug" Brady, who resembled O'Brien enough that he could eventually double for him. Over the next few years, he met numerous other crimefighters and made friends with many of them.

In 1941, Pug planned on getting married and so they amicably broke the partnership. Some time afterwards, the Clock was wounded in a gunfight and, in a delirious state, stumbled into what he thought was a deserted shack. However, it was home to a runaway teen girl named Henrietta "Butch" Buchanan, who believed the handsome stranger was a masked gangster. Fancying herself a moll, she nursed him back to health, and then she attached herself to him as his new partner.

After dealing with years of issues with his curtain mask, he eventually changed it to a less fashionable, but more practical domino mask. In the fall of 1944, the monstrous Claw attacked New York again. The Clock was able to thwart it's plans, but the fiend crushed him to death in retaliation. Although not the first masked hero to die in action (#711, the Comet, and the Ghost had also been killed, the latter also by the talons of the Claw), he was the most popular, and his funeral was attended by most of the masked crimefighters of the time. Butch mourned his death for a time before going on to establish her own heroic legacy, but that's a story for another time.

The Clock was a skilled amateur criminologist. He was fairly skilled hand to hand combatant and used a weighted cane as a weapon. He was also skilled with a pistol and could hypnotize others.

The Clock is a character in public domain, created by George Brunner pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Clock His first appearances were Funny Pages #6 and Funny Picture Stories #1 (they both came out in Nov. 1936) published by Centaur Comics. When Brunner went to work for Quality, he took the Clock feature with him, and the Clock appeared from Dec. 1937 to Fall 1944 in first Feature Funnies and then Crack Comics. The character has been used by Malibu, DC, and Dynamite Comics.

The unique elements of the character above is property of Sidney Osinga aka.

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