From a very young age, Raymond Terrill is told by his supposed father that exposure to direct sunlight will kill him. Privately tutored in his window-darkened home, he is dubbed "Night Boy" by the media. At the age of eighteen, Ray learns the truth about his heritage while on the deathbed of his father, "Happy" Terrill. The dying man admits that he was the Golden Age Ray and that exposure to sunlight will activate Raymond's own light-based superpowers. As a child, he would have been unable to control such power and, thus, had to be kept in darkness.
