Prowler

Origin

Hobie was one of the many individuals hunted down for refusing to register with the Super-Human Registration Act during the Civil War. After being released by Carol Danvers, he went to the funeral of Stilt-Man, but was escorted out by Spider-Man and Puma before he makes a fool out of himself. The funeral was later bombed by the Punisher. 

The Prowler series

In the series that stared the Prowler, it showed his crime fighting career and his criminal called Nightcreeper, who had a similar suit as Prowler. When Prowler found out on the news that someone was making crimes posing as the Prowler, he went to stop the criminal. He then encountered Nightcreeper and the two battled.
 
But as they did, Prowler then realized that Nightcreeper wasn't killing peopel and that Nightcrawler could help him find the murderer. As he went back home that day though, Mindy was devastated to learn that he had been going out as the Prowler behind her back and left away crying. When Hobie went back to the company he worked for the next day, he encountered the man tried to take over the company, who he didn't know at the time was the Vulture. 
 
He later meet up with Nightcreeper that night and they both fought a gang in an alleyway. But a Prowler noticed that innocent civilians were getting caught in the crossfire, he took Nightcreeper and dragged him out of there. Nightcreeper was angry at this and ran away from Prowler. 
 
After a training session with his older brother Abe Brown, he then went and tracked down the Nightcreeper and told him to turn himself in. But later that day, as he was discussing Mindy's new job oppurtunity in California for her, he found out that Nightcreeper had been knocked out of the sky by the Vulture.
 
So Hobie went and tracked the Vulture as Prowler, but he also got knocked out of the sky. Later on, Prowler with help from his newly developed pneumatic laser bugging system, he listened in on a conversation and found out Vulture's secret identity. He later confronted him where they got into a battle once more. Vulture eventually escaped though as the still injured Nightcreeper came on the scene. And also Mindy left Hobie to go to California, Hobie stayed in New York feeling that he couldn't leave being the superhero Prowler.
 

Marvel Adventures

He also appeared in one issue of Marvel Adventures Spider-man comics, being confronted by Spider-man as he thought he was doing crimes across the city but later found out he was trying to find the man who stole his inventions. They later encountered Dragon-Man, who was helpign to steal the inventions. They later tracked him down and found that Phil Sheldon was the man behind controlling Dragon-Man, stealing Prowler's inventions. But he was quickly brought to justice... Prowler left Dragon Man as his own little pet

Powers

The Prowler has no superhuman abilities, but he is intelligent inventor, creating lots of gadgets and designs to enhance his Prowler suit. He has steel tipped gloves that allow him to scale walls and make effect melee weapons and even glass cutters. He has rubberized soles in his boots and shock absorbers in his suit that allow him to sustain falls from a few stories up with minimal injury.  His cape also has rigid structure which allows him to glide in the air.
 
Prowler's gadgets and gear is based on pneumatic systems, through this he has created pneumatic devices that help allow him to fly through the air, and he has gauntlets on both his wrists and ankles, to which he shoots a multitude of objects from, including
 

• Concussive air blasts, (which in his boots, can help give a boost while flying or jumping)
• Laser blasts
• Sleeping gas pellets
  
• Cleaning fluid
• Steel tipped darts
• Concussive gas canisters
• Grappling hook
• Magnesium flares

Other Media

The Amazing Spider-Man series: In the 1990's Spider-Man animated series, the Prowler wanted to become a crime lord, to prove that he was worth something, to this end he accepted a deal from the Kingpin, but after it became clear Kingpin double crossed him, Prowler joined forces with Spider-Man to help take down the Kingpin

Spectacular Spider-Man series: Hobie Brown is a football player at Midtown High. He caught the game winning catch that won them championship after Harry Osborn had to take a leave from the school. And he also took over for Harry at the school play as the character "Puck" when harry went missing.