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Real Name: Jack Ryder
Occupation: Hero
Marital Status:Reporter, Single
Base of Operations: Gotham
Height: 6ft
Weight: 194 lbs
Eyes: Black
Hair: Green
First Appearance: The New Batman Adventures - Beware The Creeper
Voiced By: Jeff Glen Bennett

Jack Ryder was co-anchor of Summer Gleeson's "Gotham Insider." When Jack did an expose on The Joker, he showed up and threw Ryder into the same vat of chemicals that transformed him.

The chemicals, mixed with the Joker's laughing gas, triggered a mutation in Ryder. As a result, Ryder's body became bright yellow with green hair with dramatically enhanced strength and agility. While shopping wildly at a thrift shop, a terrified onlooker called him a "creep" which inspired him to call himself "The Creeper." While Ryder was still honest enough to pay for his new costume, his use of his credit card alerted Batman to the wildman's real identity. Seeking revenge against The Joker and suddenly smitten with Harley Quinn, he pursued them relentlessly with terrifyingly wild enthusiaism. While The Creeper did not kill the criminals, his methods were so frentically deranged that the Joker eventually begged to be arrested to escape them.

The transformation was permanent, but Batman was able to create a skin patch to keep the Creeper subdued. Ryder, who actually finds the Creeper form to his liking, can remove the patch and transform into the Creeper.

When the Justice League expanded, the Creeper was one of the super heroes recruited to join. The natures of the Creeper's missions, while on the League, are unknown as of now but he was on the Watchtower to fight off the invasion of Galatea and her Ultimen army, initiated by Cadmus.