When I encountered the Prowler on the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #93, I didn't actually have the comic, but I did read the story. The gadgets, the Ditko quality, his timeliness, yet, his modus operandi would’ve been more popular if he’d come along earlier in the Marvel Age. Truthfully, he would’ve been a brilliant antihero for DC Comics! But, I want to note, while the Flash’s Rogues Gallery was pretty much all using gadgets, and gadgets were a very common source of ‘powers’ for Silver Age costumed characters, by 1968, when they created and prepared The Prowler for his three-part (cut to two) debut in Amazing Spider-Man, he might be the last really great gadget-based character to appear, excepting Mister Miracle. You might not think either of those are very great, and the trend was not in favor of ordinary humans utilizing gadgets to have crimefighting advantages. Batman pretty much hangs up his utility belt as we knew it (especially on TV), as Denny O’Neil’s stories f...