Nathan Bowen

Marvel's Cloak & Dagger
Nate Bowen was a scientist who worked for the Roxxon Energy Corporation. He lived in New Orleans, Louisiana and was married to a woman named Melissa, with whom he had a daughter named Tandy.

One evening during a rainstorm, Nathan had picked up Tandy at ballet practice. While driving home, he was on the telephone with one of his colleagues, expressing his issues with a new experimental oil rig out on lake. He warned about the disastrous ramifications that would occur should the rig falter.

As if on cue, Nathan was driving past the rig's location when he saw it buckle and collapse. He was so distracted by this that he failed to notice an oncoming eighteen-wheeler. The vehicles collided with one another and both ended up in the lake. Nathan was killed on impact.

A ripple of energy washed across the lake from the oil rig, which had an affect on the now-drowning Tandy Bowen. Another youth who had also been in the lake at the time was Tyrone Johnson. Johnson managed to save Tandy and brought her up onto the beach. Exposure to the energy wave would have long-term complications for both of them.

The Roxxon corporation was quick to disavow any responsibility pertaining to the failed oil rig and placed all of the blame squarely on the late Nathan Bowen's shoulders. As a result, all of his materials were confiscated and his wife turned towards alcohol to cope. Tandy, likewise traumatized from the loss of her father, would grow up to become a teenage criminal.