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Real Name: Leland Owisley
Occupation: Financier turned professional criminal
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with criminal record
Identity: Publicly known
Place of Birth: Unknown
Marital Status: Unknown
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: The Aerie,
New Jersey Palisades
Past Group Affiliations: Owl Gang
Known Powers:
Gliding: Excellent air speed (150 mph); he drops 15 feet for each 10 areas he travels
Equipment:
Glider Capes: Specially designed capes give him Incredible Agility on flight
Claws: Remarkable Material claws do Excellent Edged damage
Leg Supports: Electrically powered braces enable him to walk (1 area per turn)
Owl Flier: A distinctive flying vehicle used to transport the Owl and his gang can carry up to 4000 pounds:
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Weakness:
The Owl’s legs are paralyzed
Talents:
Remarkable Reason in financial affairs
Contacts:
Former ally of Mr. Kline
Role-Playing Notes:
Leland Owlsley is a ruthless finan cier and businessman who found a perfect outlet for his greed and viciousness by becoming the Owl. He prefers to plan the crimes carried out by his minions. He acts only when a superhero or rival criminal threatens his gang’s success. His paralysis has led to an obsession to cure or compensate for it. He will risk his safety in pursuit of possible cures.
History:
Leland Owisley, nicknamed the Owl, was once a ruthless financier whose criminal connections were exposed during a special Internal Revenue Service audit that uncovered documents linking him with numerous fraudulent business enterprises. As soon as his underworld activities came to light, the Owl discarded his pretense of respectability and began to make plans to become a major crimelord in New York. He began recruiting henchmen to serve as his Owl Gang and, under circumstances as yet unrevealed, he acquired a serum that in some manner enabled him to glide and fly for short distances. However, he was soon brought to justice by Daredevil. After serving a brief prison term, the Owl was paroled and immediately kid napped the judge who had sentenced him. Daredevil managed to free the judge from his clutches, but the Owl escaped. Seeking to avoid both Daredevil and the authorities, the Owl lay low for a time, quietly moving his base of operations to San Francisco.
There he was contacted by the mysterious Mister Kline, who assigned him the task of capturing Daredevil. The Russian agent turned-crimefighter named Black Widow aided Daredevil in escaping the Owl, thus beginning their partnership. Daredevil physically over powered the Owl, but the criminal escaped before the police could take him into custody. The Owl then left San Francisco for Chicago where he acquired technology able to electronically drain human brains of all their knowledge. He hoped to use the device to increase his own store of knowledge, but when he was opposed by the Chicago crimefighter the Cat, he was forced to flee. The Owl returned to San Francisco with the plans for the device, and after having it reconstructed, captured Daredevil and tried to use it on him. Daredevil was saved by the Black Widow once again, and again defeated the Owl in battle.
The Owl was stricken by a debilitating ailment that paralyzed his legs. It was apparently a side effect of the serum he had been taking over the years to give him the power to fly. The Owl moved back to the New York area, established a new headquarters in the New Jersey Palisades overlooking Manhattan, and then freed the bestial Man-Bull from prison to serve as his henchman. The Owl assigned the Man-Bull the task of kidnapping the renowned neurologist Prof. Brent Kerwin so that Kerwin could cure the Owl’s neurological problem. Daredevil intervened, however, and kept Kerwin out of the Man-Bull’s clutches. Desperate, the Owl traveled upstate to see another specialist, Dr. Howard Petrovic. Coerced to help him, the doctor devised an exoskeleton for the Owl’s legs and attached some sort of “flying device” to his spine. Battling Daredevil in mid-air, the Owl learned that the doctor had sabotaged the device, however, and the Owl plunged into the icy waters of the Hudson River. His Owl Gang rescued him and after resuscitating him, succeeded in forcing Prof. Kerwin to examine him. Kerwin devised for him a “neurological pacemaker” to cope with the chemical effects of his flight serum. Daredevil and Spider-Man came to Kerwin’s rescue and defeated the Owl by triggering an acute anxiety attack his pacemaker could not cope with.
When the Owl regained his mental faculties, he had a flying support module built to compensate for his now-paralyzed legs. His plan to launch a huge crime wave was thwarted in the planning stages by Spider-Man and the Black Widow. The Owl had the criminal inventor known as the Tinkerer repair the exoskeleton leg braces so he could walk. Embarking upon his most ambitious scheme to date, an attempt to replace the Kingpin as New York’s top gang leader, the Owl contacted Doctor Octopus and proposed that the two join forces against the Kingpin. Octopus was not interested, however, and the two joined in battle. When the fight was interrupted by Spider-Man, the two criminals fled. Doctor Octopus attacked the Owl in his New Jersey headquarters a short time later, and physically beat the Owl in personal combat, destroying the Owl’s hand talons and his leg braces. The Owl fell from a height of twenty feet and was further injured. He is currently recuperating from his injuries in a prison hospital.