Jack Ryder was a reporter turned network security agent, assigned to safeguard Professor Yatz who was kidnapped anyway. In order to save Jack's life, Yatz injected him with a serum that enabled Ryder's body to heal quickly while giving him added strength and stamina... and a molecular device allowing him to turn Jack's masquerade costume invisible and intangible, and reappear at will.
Now, as the Creeper, Ryder decided to feign being a supervillain to gain the trust of the underworld whom he would ensnare in traps. This led to conflict with Gotham's premier protector, Batman, who would eventually become his friend and colleague. At times, he'd join other criminals such was when he became a brief member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains, in order to overturn their sinister schemes.
Chuck Lane was a policeman who adopted an alter ego inspired by his ancestors as the Jester. Born Robert Mason, heir to a fortune, when his father disowned him he briefly turned to crime as the Jester, until an imitator threatened the life of his father. After saving his dad, Mason decided to become a law enforcement officer. As a now heroic Jester, Lane had a brief costumed crusader on his native Earth-Two, and joined the All-Star Squadron. Lane's most famous instrument in his crimefighting arsenal was a round spherical flying object of his own creation known as a Quinopolis, which he would use as a weapon and a larger version of which he would ride upon on occasion.
The Jester journeyed to Earth-X alongside Uncle Sam's Freedom Fighters, although evidence suggests that he returned to Earth-Two a few years later as he was still operating as a masked manhunter late into the 1940s on a world that was no longer embroiled in World War II, as Earth-X still was.
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