6) THE PROWLER
Movie producer Leo Kragg (nee Leon Cragstein) put on trench coat and mask to take on crime in the 1930s; decades later, he returned to action as a bitter, sour old man, training a new protégé as The Prowler. It’s interesting to see his extremist “at all costs” approach being echoed in the adventures of the hero who inspired him, The Shadow…
Hobie Brown used his engineering genius to create his own super-costume, intending to use it for revenge and profit; an encounter with Spider-Man put him on the path to occasional heroism. He was eventually killed, then cloned by The Jackal, making his current status complicated, to say the least…