Hobie Brown was born in The Bronx, New York. He was a bright, but angry teenage African-American who got fired from his job as a window cleaner. Intending to use his engineering skills for personal profit, he devised a plan to steal stuff in the disguise of a supervillain and bring it back as Hobie Brown, thus hurting no one and still becoming a noteworthy hero.
However, as seen in The Amazing Spider-Man #78-79 (1969), when he donned his green and purple "Prowler" costume for the first time, he crossed paths with Spider-Man. Spidey vanquished and demasked Prowler, but realizing he was just a misunderstood kid (much like himself), he gave him advice to not throw his life away as a criminal and to redeem himself. Hobie took this advice to heart and has since become a model citizen. Years later, for a brief period of time, also joined super-hero group The Defenders (as seen in three 1970s issues).
Prowler later appeared in California during Peter Parker's "Webs" book deal (story-arc around The Amazing Spider-Man #304, 1988). He is first seen attacking the Black Fox for possession of a chalice, to keep his wife, Mindy, out of prison. Mindy accepted a bookkeeping job at Transcorp New York. The company was caught in some shady stock deals and Mindy was set up and blamed for the crimes. The only way to clear her name, Hobie redonned the Prowler costume and found the books that Mindy was blamed for stealing. He hid the books on an information chip and put the information chip on the chalice, where no one would look for it. Prowler and Spider-Man team up to take on the Black Fox to take the chalice back. They succeed and Hobie's wife is cleared of all charges. He was last seen during a poker game organized by the Thing.
Prowler appears also in various 1990s Spider-Man issues, when, teamed up with some another rehabilitated villains like Sandman, Rocket Racer and Puma, create the team of The Outlaws.
In 1994 he has his own four-issues limited series named Prowler.
Later (Spider-Man Unlimited #16), during The Great Game plot, Hobie was paralyzed during the Great Game in story-arc started with The Sensational Spider-Man Son düzenleyen asla_asla_deme; 26 Nisan 2012 10:20
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