First Appearance: Captain America Comics #6 (September
1941).
Golden Age Appearances:
Captain America Comics #6-12,
Mystic
Comics #10, Young Allies #3.
Modern Appearances:
Captain America #383.
Years Active: Beginning of the Universe-?
Larry
Scott is a good-hearted young man with a problem. His father has been convicted
of murder and faces the electric chair. Larry knows that his father is
innocent and is trying his best to prove this. Unfortunately, Larry is
too late, and his father is executed by the state. Naturally, Larry is
more than a little peeved by this, but rather than direct his anger against
the state or against unjust executions, he swears an oath to "make time
work against criminals instead of the innocent." So he dons a mask and
hood, takes up a big scythe, and uses that and his fists to fight crime
and evil.
In the modern era, however, it was revealed that Larry had been an Elder of the Universe all along, and that in his own land he was obsessed with time and with the symbols of America. He tried but failed to get Captain America to join the other symbols of America, like Johnny Appleseed, and become a legend, rather than continuing to live as a man.
In the Golden Age Father Time had no powers beyond his skill as a brawler. The retconned Father Time has all the powers of an Elder of the Universe.