REAL NAME: Hugh Goddard
ALIASES: Nightro, the Streamlined Robin Hood
ALIASES: Nightro, the Streamlined Robin Hood
AFFILIATIONS: Crime Busters, Battle Squadron
RELATIVES: NA
MARITAL STATUS: Single
CLASS: Human mutate
LIVING STATUS: Alive
REALITY: Earth-164A
PLACE OF BIRTH: Gleason, Tennessee
CAUSE OF DEATH: NA
ALIGNMENT: Good
IDENTITY: Secret
GENDER: MaleHEIGHT: 6' 0"
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
EYES: White
HISTORY
POWERS & WEAPONS
CITIZENSHIP: Citizen of USA
OCCUPATION: FBI special agent, scientist, adventurer
EDUCATION: Vanderbilt
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Quantico, Virginia
OCCUPATION: FBI special agent, scientist, adventurer
EDUCATION: Vanderbilt
BASE OF OPERATIONS: Quantico, Virginia
KNOWN ENEMIES: Suicide Circle; Hoag, Tollini; Fu Tong; Lonesome Larry
CREATORS: Dick Wood and George Roussos
FIRST APPEARANCE: Daredevil Comics #2 (August 1941)
CREATORS: Dick Wood and George Roussos
FIRST APPEARANCE: Daredevil Comics #2 (August 1941)
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
GENDER: Male
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
EYES: White
HAIR: Black
UNUSUAL FEATURES: NA
When a group of Alaskan miners began to die one after another from some kind of poisoning, the federal government sent scientist Hugh Goddard to investigate the causes. Goddard discovered that the radiation levels were terrifyingly high, lethal, but before he could send his conclusions, he was beaten nearly to death and left in an abandoned mine tunnel. Hugh managed to crawl out, but as he stepped out into the sunlight, he was horrified to discover that he couldn't see, the radiation had blinded him. However, during convalescence in the hospital, his friend Dr. Miller discovered that Hugh was not really blind, but that radioactivity had mutated his sense of sight, adapting it to situations in the absence of light. Miller and Goddard himself designed and manufactured a special visor that protected Hugh's eyes from intense light sources. Miller also helped his friend create Nightro's secret identity. On his first mission, Nightro went after Tollini and Hoag (engineer and foreman of the fateful mine), the men who tried to kill him. Since then, Hugh Goddard has pretended to be blind during the day, but when night falls he becomes a daredevil hero, a caped guardian angel.
Nightro could see in the dark and using his special visor with polarized lenses, also in full sunlight. He was in exceptional physical shape, a very capable fighter, and a tenacious hound. Hugh had a guide dog, a German Shepherd named Blackie, who sometimes accompanied him on his adventures as Nightro. When Blackie passed away, Nightro had a second canine companion, a Spanish Alano named Drum.