Real name: Durant
First appearance: All-Star Comics#3 (Winter 1940)
Abilities: Insurance fraud
Worst act: Attempted theft
Created by: Gardner Fox, Ken Fitch (script), Bernard Bailey (pencils)
So after the Spectre's grisly yarn, Hourman steps up. From God's own vengeance to a guy who's really tough for only an hour.
Rex Tyler (Hourman's alter ego) scores an invite to a costume party. On a lark, he goes as Hourman...only to discover most of the guests had the exact same idea. Since no costume party in the DC Universe ever goes right, the Durant Diamond Collection is stolen!
The culprit? Hourman!
Naturally Rex is a bit put out by this and works to uncover the real thief. The phony Hourmen are actually in the pay of none other than Mr. Durant himself. Yup, he went to all the trouble of staging a costume ball to cover his insurance fraud. Seems like he could just stolen them and blamed a burglar, but what do I know? Turns out the gems on display were fake anyway, as Durant didn't want to get rid of the originals.
Bit of a comedown from the last story.
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