The Hooded One

The Hooded One is a mysterious masked villain who debuted as a menace opposing Peter Cannon (Thunderbolt) in Charlton's Silver Age hero title. Little is known about the figure's true identity, making the enigmatic antagonist a shadowy threat within Cannon's rogues gallery.

A mysterious Silver Age menace born from the fertile imagination of the Charlton Comics bullpen, The Hooded One made their sinister entrance in Thunderbolt #1 back in 1966, courtesy of creators Pat Masulli and Pete Morisi. Keeping dangerous company with the likes of Peter Cannon, Tabu, Mentalia, and The Brute, this enigmatic figure haunts the pages of one of Charlton's most distinctive hero titles. The fact that The Hooded One's presence has been collected and reprinted across publications spanning all the way to 2017 — more than fifty years after that debut — speaks to an enduring mystique that collectors of Silver Age Charlton material have clearly never forgotten.