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. With these added advantages, Ryder adopted the alter ego of the Creeper. 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.
Leapo was a former circus performer turned professional criminal, incarcerated in prison. After staging a daring excape with fellow prisoners, Leapo was inspired to assume the alias of Bulls-Eye*. This soon led him into direct conflict with the Battling Bowmen of Earth-Two, Green Arrow and Speedy, with Leapo's ability to leap coupled with his agility made him a difficult target to capture.
At times, the Creeper would work with criminals in order to overturn their sinister schemes. One instance of this was when Ryder's costumed persona was drawn into conflict with the Justice League of America and the Mind-Grabber Kid. Years later, Creeper was recruited into the Secret Society of Super-Villains, which he served alongside briefly before parting company with his crooked confederates.
Frequently, Bulls-Eye hatched various schemes seeking to outwit his arch-enemy while attempting to make his criminal career a success. Employing a variety of gadgets, reminiscent of another "harlequin of hate" on Creeper's Earth named the Trickster, Bulls-Eye's weaponry never seemed to quite match the trick arrows of his archer adversaries. After over a dozen adventures over a span of a few years in the late 1940s, Leapo evidentally retired from his costumed capers, right around the time that Green Arrow and Speedy along with their allies in the Seven Soldiers of Victory were pulled from the 20th century and transported to various past eras following a battle with the Nebula Man. For a time, all memory of these heroes was forgotten, and was Bulls-Eye's grudge against Green Arrow.
* Earth-Two had another Bulls-Eye about this same time as Leapo debuted, although he was a common hitman. His counterpart was a Bulls-Eye on Earth-One who likewise was an ordinary hitman who squared off on occasion with the Green Arrow of his world. This Bulls-Eye ended up training Batman's foe Signalman into becoming the Blue Bowman.
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