Hollis Mason (Nite Owl 1.0) Timeline and Summary

Chap I—Hollis Mason hosts Dan Dreiberg for their weekly Saturday night beer session. They reminisce about the Nite Owl life.
Chapter A: Under the Hood (I-II) by Hollis Mason—KEY CHAPTER: Crucial insider info into the early life of Hollis Mason (See “Detailed Plot Summary” for more).
Chap II—MIA, doing old-guy stuff.
Chapter B: Under the Hood (III-IV) by Hollis Mason—KEY CHAPTER: Read up on the rise of the Minutemen.
Chap III—MIA
Chapter C: Under the Hood (V) by Hollis Mason—KEY CHAPTER: The end of the golden age of heroes and the arrival of Dr. Manhattan.
Chap IV—Through Dr. Manhattan’s perspective, we visit Hollis Mason’s retirement party in 1962.
Chap V through VII—MIA
Chap VIII—Hollis calls up Sally Jupiter to discuss Dan and Laurie’s efforts to bring Nite Owl and Silk Spectre back to life. On Halloween night, a knot-top gang breaks into Hollis’s house and murders him. He tries to fight them off, imagining they’re his old enemy, the Nazi villain Captain Axis.
Chap IX through XII—RIP Hollis Mason