BLACK OWL

PERSONAL DATA

REAL NAME: Douglas Danville 
OCCUPATION: Wealthy Playboy 
IDENTITY: Secret 
CLASS: Human technology user 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA with no criminal records 
OTHER ALIASES: K the Unknown, the Knight Unknown 
PLACE OF BIRTH: Prize City, USA 
MARITAL STATUS: Married 
KNOWN RELATIVES: Doris Parker (wife), Belle Danville (daughter) 
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Crime Busters, Battle Squadron 
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Prize City, USA 
FIRST APPEARANCE: Prize Comics #1 (Mar 1940) 

HEIGHT: 6' 2" 
WEIGHT: 210 lbs 
EYES: Blue 
HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

Douglas Danville was a wealthy playboy who decided to fight crime, first under the secret identity of the Knight Unknown, but soon changed his M.O. to Black Owl. When WWII began, Danville bequeathed the Black Owl cape to his good friend Walt Walters. Walters' wife had been murdered a few years earlier and Walt strove to raise his children, twins Patrick and Richard, as true American paragons. When his father became the Black Owl, the children became his young sidekicks, assuming the identities of Yank and Rebel. The trio enlisted the help of Inspector Foley of the Prize City Police Departmemt. Unfortunately, Walt Walters was seriously injured in a shooting and was forced to withdraw from the fight against crime, although he continued to help Doug and the twins, designing new devices and taking care of the intendance and communications of the trio (basically, "The Guy In The Chair"). Douglas Danville returned from the front line and took up the mantle of the Black Owl. Sometime later, Danville met Doris Parker, the vigilante nicknamed Scarlet Sable, first as rivals and then as allies. Doris and Douglas eventually married and had a daughter, Belle, who would end up becoming the Harpy. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

Douglas Danville was in exceptional physical shape and was well above average fighters and acrobats. The Black Owl possessed vast resources to sustain his war on crime. His main mean of transportation was the Silent Swooper.

HARPY

PERSONAL DATA 

REAL NAME: Belle Danville 
OCCUPATION: Professional gymnast, adventurer 

IDENTITY: Secret 
CLASS: Normal Human 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA with no criminal records 
OTHER ALIASES: Belle Martin, Belle Parker 
PLACE OF BIRTH: NY City 
MARITAL STATUS: Single 
KNOWN RELATIVES: Dough Danville (father); Doris Parker (mother) 
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: Crime Busters, Young Heroes Alliance 
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Prize City, USA 
FIRST APPEARANCE: Tim Holt #30 (June-July, 1952)

HEIGHT: 5' 11"  
WEIGHT: 125 lbs  
EYES: Blue 
HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

The incredible gymnast Belle Danville would go crazy to the point of dressing up as the Harpy and going out in search of revenge for the death of her father, Doug Danville, aka the Black Owl. After a life dedicated to fighting crime, Danville had ended up being murdered not by a super criminal, but by unscrupulous and greedy business associate. Belle's vigilante rage had to be quelled by Rick Walters, alias the Yankee Eagle, her father's former sidekick. Rick stopped her from killing her father's murderers and helped her bring them to justice. Both continued working together and in the end, despite the age difference, they fell in love. 

POWERS & WEAPONS 

As the Harpy, Belle used metal claws similar to the ones her mother (Scarlet Sable) used to use. She also wore a uniform similar to her father's, with a special cape that acted somewhat like a paraglider. She was an Olympic-level gymnast, extremely agile and strong, and had also received combat training since childhood from her parents. In addition to her claws, her gauntlets could shot needles loaded with a powerful narcotic.

IRON LADY

PERSONAL DATA

REAL NAME: Doris Parker-Danville 
OCCUPATION: Vigilante, adventurer 
IDENTITY: Secret 
CLASS: Human technology user 

LEGAL STATUS: Citizen of USA 
OTHER ALIASES: The Muff, Scarlet Sable 
PLACE OF BIRTH: Hillman City, USA 
MARITAL STATUS: Widowed 
KNOWN RELATIVES: Doug Danville (husband-deceased-), Belle Danville (daughter) 
GROUP AFFILIATIONS: NA 
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Prize City, USA 
FIRST APPEARANCE: Airboy vol. 4 #1 (February 1947)

HEIGHT: 5' 7" 
WEIGHT: 120 lbs 
EYES: Green 
HAIR: Black 

HISTORY 

This story began many years before Doris Parker was born. A watchmaking genius made a pair of gauntlets of a very, very special metal (impervium) for a nobleman of Hungarian origin, who used them to deliver justice. Time passed and the gauntlets ended up in an auction house in France. Walter Parker, Doris' father, was a wealthy tobacco businessman as well as a major collector of rare items. During a business trip to France, Mr. Parker couldn't resist acquiring them. However, another bidder did not seem to agree with this and sent some thugs to retrieve the gauntlets. Mr. Parker refused to hand them over, the situation got complicated and the henchmen killed the businessman and put him in a trunk. The irony was that the gauntlets were hidden in a false bottom in that very trunk. Two weeks later, Doris received her father's personal belongings, including the trunk, and she made the most macabre of discoveries, her father's corpse. She also found the gauntlets and the pain gave way to the fury. Seeking revenge, Doris plunged into the criminal underworld, donning the Impervium gauntlets and calling herself Scarlet Sable. She managed to piece the puzzle together until she found the one responsible for her father's death, and then executed him. After this, Miss Parker fell into a self-destructive spiral of crime and hedonism and only one thing kept her from ending up dead or behind bars: Doug Danville, aka The Black Owl. Together they started a new life, got married and had a child, Belle. Much later, fate wanted Belle to repeat the story of her mother, but that's another story...

POWERS & WEAPONS 

She wore a pair of mechanical impervium gloves capable of grasping and tearing with superhuman strength.