Is the Creeper character based on the Joker from DC comic's Batman?

Answer 1

No, not unless they ahve completely redefined the character lately,

The Creeper is Jack Ryder, an investigative reporter who was tracking down a missing scientist. He tailed the kidnappers to a mansion where a costume party was going on and and had to hurriedly throw together a disguise, which he bought as a box of odds and ends from a costume shop. He wore a yellow bodystocking, face paint, a green fright wig, had a red sheepskin as a cape. Ryder was just a normal athelete, but was good in a fistfight and distracted his opponents with a bizarre laugh.

When he found the captured scientist (he also was captured and they were kept together for a short time, though Ryder was to be killed and his body disposed), the scientist entrusted Ryder with his two greatest inventions, so the bad guys could not eventually pressure him into revealing how they were made.

One was a molecular transconverter, which he concealed by implanting it inside Ryder's wound-- he'd been stabbed by a knife.
Activating it made Ryder's costume disappear. This sort of thing would allow for an invasion of a country, when soldiers could enter looking like tourists and then have their weapons suddenly reappear.

The other thing was a serum that was supposed to give a person increased strength, agility and endurance. It healed Ryder rapidly, so that the device was permanently implanted in his body.

With his new strength, etc., Ryder was able to easily defeat the criminals, though the scientist was killed in the process. Since he could not remove the converter device, and no one else knew how to make the serum, he decided to keep the 'Creeper' identity and put the scientist's discoveries to use for the good of mankind.

There has been some indication since then that the serum has side effects on Ryder's mind, making him unstable, demented, deluded, violent, sometimes suggestible. He is an odd hero, but sometimes useful to pull out for a cameo or guest appearance in another hero's book. Creeper was creaed by Steve Ditko, the creator of Spider Man and so many others usually attributed to Stan Lee.

Look up Creeper on Toonopedia and you will learn more.

27 NOV 06, 2025 hrs, GMT.

Answer 2

If I remember correctly, The Creeper was a media journalist that somehow got involved with the same stuff that turned the Joker into who he is(I think J had something to do with it, dumping it on him). He then became Creeper, kind of an Anti-Hero who really wanted to take down Joker after ruining his life.

Answer 3

yeah its loosly based on him.

Answer 4

NO not really