THE CLOCK is acknowledged as the first masked hero of the comic book (1936). His secret identity is Brian O'Brien, a rich man of means (which seems to be a requirement for most crimefighters – very few of them were ever poor). He fought against gangsters and dope dealers, murderers and thieves. He started in Funny Pages #6, and enjoyed runs in Feature Funnies (later Feature Comics) and Crack Comics. He was an outlaw of sorts, a Robin Hood who sometimes kept the money from a case to aid the poor, with his justifications written out in a letter to the police; he also often let the crooks and the police know exactly when he, THE CLOCK, would strike. Resourceful and inventive, his stories were always something different from the mainstream. Gwandanaland Comics has the largest CLOCK collection in print!