Dollar Bill

Dollar Bill was a bank-sponsored costumed hero active during the 1940s as a member of the Minutemen, the original superhero team in the world of Watchmen. Hired more for publicity than heroism, he was essentially a corporate mascot in a cape.

A corporate-sponsored hero born in the pages of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark Watchmen in 1986, Dollar Bill is one of those fascinating figures who haunts the edges of comics history — a Copper Age creation whose story is told more in rumor and retrospect than in spotlight moments. A member of the Minutemen's storied era (his team affiliation is explicit in the facts, so this stands), he rubs shoulders with legends like Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Captain Metropolis, lending texture and tragedy to DC's richly imagined alternate past. With appearances spread across Watchmen, Before Watchmen: Minutemen, and the Before Watchmen Omnibus, he's a small but genuinely rewarding piece of one of the medium's most celebrated universes — the kind of character that rewards the curious fan who wants to understand every corner of that world.