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Happy Harry was a bartender and the owner of Happy Harry's Bar and Grill, a sleezy New York City dive bar where the costumed vigilante Rorschach often visited while investigating cases involving the city's criminal underworld for information.

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Not much is revealed or shown about the man known as "Happy Harry", other than he ran a Manhattan bar and grill named after himself. However, as suggested by his first appearance in Chapter I, he seems to have witnessed several disturbing incidents involving Rorschach at his establishment and appears to have even murdered a few of Harry's clientele in the past.

Events of Watchmen[]

On October 13, 1985, while investigating the murder of Edward Blake (the Comedian), Rorschach goes to Happy Harry's for intel surrounding Blake's death. When Harry, while tending the bar that evening, recognizes Rorschach as he asks Harry how he's doing, he desperately tries to mask the fact he is utterly terrified of Rorschach by forcing himself to smile and mindlessly repeating that he's "fine" and "glad" that Rorschach is fine, before Harry begs him in a hushed voice not to kill anybody.

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Rorschach's return

When a patron named Steve made a minor insulting comment about Rorschach's body odor behind his back, he apparently heard Steve and "punished" him by breaking his little finger, all the while threatening the other customers in bar that he will break more of the man's fingers if they didn't reveal who killed Edward Blake. As horrified bystanders tell Rorschach they don't know anything and beg him to leave Steve alone, Rorschach gives up and leaves the bar.

A few days later on November 2[1], Rorschach return to the bar after escaping from Sing Sing during a prison riot the night before, bringing along fellow crimefighter Nite Owl II to interrogate the patrons for intel who hired Roy Chess to assassinate Adrien Veidt (Ozymandias) on November 1.

Given his place of business is located in New York, Harry most likely died in the 11/2 Psychic Shockwave event that wiped out half of the city's population in the early November of 1985.

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