Dollar Bill

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"Dollar Bill"
Alias	Dollar Bill
Died	1947
Actor	Dan Payne

Dollar Bill (? - 1947) was one of the Minutemen in the Watchmen graphic novel.

Biography

Little is known about the masked adventurer Dollar Bill besides his death. As noted in Hollis Mason's Under the Hood, he was originally a star college athlete from Kansas. When he moved to New York he was employed by one of the national banks as an in-house superhero. After they noticed the rise of the 'masked man fad', the marketing team thought it would be a very interesting publicity prospect to be able to brag that a self-owned superhero would be protecting the customer's money.

Designers were employed by the bank to make his costume. For advertising purposes and to raise maximum publicity appeal, the costume was extremely gaudy, with a large dollar sign on the front and a cloak that draped to the floor.

In 1947, while attempting to stop a raid upon one of his employer's banks, his cloak became entangled in the bank's revolving door and he was shot at point-blank range before he could free it. Earlier in that year he can be seen in a photo attending Sally Jupiter's wedding. Hollis Mason speculates, "If he’d designed it himself he might have left out that damned stupid cloak and still be alive today.

Personality

In every one of his appearances on-panel, Dollar Bill has a strong posture and is always smiling. Hollis Mason notes "Dollar Bill was one of the nicest and most straightforward men I have ever met."

However Dollar Bill has no speaking line in all the comic.

Watchmen Heroes
Minutemen
Captain Metropolis • Hooded Justice • Nite Owl I • The Comedian • Silk Spectre I • Dollar Bill • Mothman • Silhouette
Crimebusters
Captain Metropolis • Doctor Manhattan • Rorschach • The Comedian • Ozymandias • Nite Owl II • Silk Spectre II