Mad Hatter (O.W. Comics)
The Mad Hatter is a male comic character who features in O.W. Comics.
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Biography
Grant Richmond
A red-headed female reporter at the Daily Clarion named Barbara Blake was given an assignment by her editor Jim Murray to investigate the activities of the mysterious Mad Hatter. He wanted her to get a date with the vigilante and write a feature on him including his secret identity. (Mad Hatter v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In his vigilante guise, he was known to speak in rhyme. (Mad Hatter v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
The Mad Hatter was an attorney named Grant Richmond, who craved adventure. With his superb athletic ability and his signal hat, he took on crime bosses.
Grant Richmond was a little-respected junior partner at the law firm of Fuddy and Bustle, who felt that the legal system made as much sense as the work of Lewis Carroll. So by night, he put on a costume and became the Mad Hatter. He can shine his top hat insignia against walls to strike fear into criminals, and he also speaks in rhyme.
He was known to project a symbol of light as his calling card to criminals. This took the form of a hat which was shone on crime scenes. (Mad Hatter v1 #1)
Notes
- The Mad Hatter was created Bill Woolfolk where he made his first appearance in Mad Hatter v1 #1 (January-February, 1946) published by O.W. Comics.
- Victims of the acute paper rationing of 1945-1949 which bankrupted many U.S. Publishing Companies during World War II, O.W. Comics, Inc., was a short-lived house consisting of two comic veterans, William "Bill" Woolfolk, who had worked for MLJ and Fawcett, and John Gerard "Jack" Oxton, Sr., a film editor with Paramount News in NYC. They co-created the Mad Hatter #1 and #2, and co-founded their Comic Book Company, O.W. Comics, which stood for Oxton & Woolfolk. Woolfolk, the Editor, and Oxton, the President, operated their publishing company, O.W. Comics, Inc., at 150 Nassau Street, New York City, New York in the mid-1940's.
Appearances
- Mad Hatter v1: (1946)
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