John David Keene was born in 1930 in Greenwich Village. Charismatic from his early years, he attended Hunter College High School and studied Political Science at Yale for 7 years. In 1972 he was elected as a Republican Senator and in 1976 he allied himself with the New York Police Officer's Union on protesting at the liberties taken by the masked adventurers. The following year he tabled the infamous Keene Act, which banned costumed crime-fighters save those sanctioned by the government.