Colorful Creative Costumed Crooks: Goldface and Red Panzer

Daniel Patrick Cassidy was a special-effects designer and stuntman extraordinare working on Hollywood movies, specifically Vernor Brothers Studio. While working on the film Blue Devil, Cassidy was tasked with developing an exo-skeleton costume he would then wear as the title character. While engaged in battling an extraterrestrial entity, exposure to chaotic radiation bonded Daniel's super-suit to his flesh, melding them into one and transforming him into the actual Blue Devil.

Helmut Streicher was a Nazi scientist tasked with preventing the initial members of Earth-Two's Justice Society from invading an essential German stronghold under his command. Using his robot, the Murder Machine, he was able to subdue Green Lantern, Flash and Batman. Although the trio were soon after freed by fellow mystery men from America, Streicher realized the benefit of incorporating his machine's armor into a uniform, which he himself would later ware.

Cassidy became a reluctant superhero and self-labeled weirdness magnet, protecting his home town of Los Angeles from a variety of costumed threats. During the course of his adventures, Blue Devil also made the acquaintence of various members of the Justice League of America, even aiding them during the Crisis on Infinite Earth.

Streicher's further advancements led to his new suit of armor, and as the Red Panzer he repeatedly matched wits with Wonder Woman. Red Panzer's personal agenda was to acquire future technologies, and knowledge using his temporal grappling hook, to gain ultimate power. This inadvertently pulled the Wonder Woman of Earth-One back in the 1940's of Earth-Two, where she met her counterpart and the two Amazing Amazons battled Red Panzer. 

In a later clash, Panzer worked alongside a fellow German scientist in Paula VonGunther, where they attempted to finally achieve their plans of world conquest for their leader. When defeated by Wonder Woman and a new American hero named the Bombardier, Streicher ended his Red Panzer career, and was presumably convicted for war crimes following the conclusion of World War II.

While both Cassidy and Streicher were engineering geniuses, they were also proactive by wearing these impressive suits of armor while under their bosses’ direction. These mobile battle suits afforded these men with superhuman strength, the power of rocket-fueled flight as well as impressive pyrotechnics and ancillary devices such as Blue Devil’s trident and Red Panzer’s rocket. Each was a loner, although they worked alongside their peers on occasion when the need arose. The differences between them lied in the fact that Cassidy was forevermore bound to his Blue Devil armor while Streicher could remove himself from his Red Panzer armor. While both men believed that their individual convictions were right, Cassidy sought to help all be they friends or foe while Streicher was prone to betray both ally and adversary when the need suited him.