Hatchet Haines (Earth-616)

Hatchet Haines
Name	Haines (First Name Unknown)
Aliases	Black Rider
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Hair	Brown
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Cause of Death	Thrown into an abyss by the Black Rider
Personal Information
Identity	Public
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Outlaw
Base of Operations	Leadville, Texas
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Syd Shores
First	Black Rider #19 (July, 1953)
First	Black Rider #19 (July, 1953)
Death	Black Rider #19 (July, 1953)
Death	Black Rider #19 (July, 1953)

History

Hatchet Haines

Hatchet Haines was an outlaw who lived near Leadville, Texas during the days of the American Frontier. In order to avoid being captured for his crimes, he forced local tailor Chuck Norman to fashion for him a Black Rider costume in order to frame the masked hero for his crimes. When Chuck protested this plan, Haines left him to die in the desert.

As the Black Rider, Hatchet then went to the various ranches around Leadville demanding they sell to him cheaply, destroying those who stood in his way. When he confronted the Lathrop family, long standing allies of the Black Rider, both Jim and his youngest son Bobby Lathrop were instantly fooled by the disguise, but Marie, who was in love with the Black Rider saw through the disguise because the impostor did not recognize her. When Jim refused to sell his ranch, the phony Black Rider shot Jim and then took Marie as his prisoner. Thinking the real Black Rider was responsible, Bobby went to the medical office of Matthew Masters -- the Black Rider's alter-ego -- to avenge his father. Masters managed to convince Bobby that the Black Rider he encountered was an impostor and left to rescue Marie.

The real Black Rider easily made short work of Hatchet Haines' gang, and then easily defeated Haines himself in a battle, sending him falling off a cliff to his death.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

Hatchet used a pair of six guns.

Transportation

Hatchet rode a horse.

See Also

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