Last edited by MajorHoy; 02-16-2019 at 09:37 AM.
Also the first person aside from Peter Parker to wear the Spider-Man costume, which he did in ASM #87. Let the record state that the first guy who wore Spider-Man's mask aside from Peter was a black man named Hobie Brown. So all that "anyone can wear the mask" or a black man being Spider-Man was inserted by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr., i.e. canon-as-they-come.
Bendis obviously knew what he was doing when he made Jefferson Morales, Miles Morales, and Aaron Davis by dividing Hobie Brown's aspects into multiple parts. Jefferson is the reformed and stayed reformed guy, Aaron Davis is the Prowler unredeemed, and Miles Morales is the kid who wore Spider-Man's costume, and took Lee's implication and ran with it by becoming Spider-Man's major legacy character.
A terrific and often underused supporting character. A villain who reformed and stayed reformed. Hobie Brown didn't do much in later stories, but I liked him in IDENTITY CRISIS, where Peter uses his tech to help fix one of his substitute identities.
Fully cosigned. I think he had the potential to be one of the better parts of Dan Slott's later Spider-Man run, but sadly, his major role ended up being seemingly killed and "reanimated" as an agent of the new Jackal, and when the original turned out to still be alive and actually stuck in a rejuvenation chamber . . . Well, I'm just sorry nobody at Marvel has picked him up from there yet.
The spider is always on the hunt.
The spider is always on the hunt.
I had did the year mail subscription to The Prowlers ongoing series , back during the clone thingy
but , six issues later , , really enjoyed the art
Have always liked Hobie brown as the Prowler , and would like to see him show up in the new Miles Morales series
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from
The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 No. 6 (mid-November 1989):
Web of Spider-Man #50 May 1989
"1,000 Words" Guest-starring the Prowler, Puma, Rocket Racer, Sandman, Silver Sable and Will-O-the-Wisp.
The Chameleon while impersonating J. Jonah Jameson runs an anti-web-slinger Daily Bugle
headline that prompts Spider-Man's friends to come to the wall-crawler's defense.
The six guest-stars have good intentions, but they end up fighting each other
and at times Spider-Man too, while trying to sort out the situation.
Meanwhile, the gang war between the Arranger and the Lobo Brothers is ramping up.
Story by Gerry Conway. Art by Alex Saviuk and Keith Williams.
You know, I never thought about it like that before but that makes a lot of sense. Would definitely love to see Hobie guest-star for an arc over in Miles' book. I was really hoping, after Slott was talking him up so much, that there was going to be something really big in store for him during Clone Conspiracy but that twist of him getting killed and cloned really derailed all of that.
The artist formerly known as OrpheusTelos.
Have Hobie and Aaron met yet?
The Prowler has always been my favorite Spiderman supporting character. Dont really see him as a villain. I just wish more was done with him.
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The spider is always on the hunt.