Who Is Creeper? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Creeper is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Jack Ryder, with over 537 comic issue appearances. Jack Ryder is an investigative journalist turned talk show host with a secret monstrous alter ego, The Creeper, the Mr. Hyde to Jack's Dr. Jekyll.

Who is Creeper?

Origin Shattered memories Jack Ryder was the son of Randolph H. Ryder, publisher of the moderately successful Union Dispatch, and Elanor Ryder, who succumbed to paranoid schizophrenia when Jack was just a child. She later died while institutionalized. After studying journalism, Ryder would work as an investigative reporter until he got a lead one fateful story. Although the story has been updated many times to modernize it, it often involves Ryder, dressed in a ludicrous costume, finding a scientist with experimental technology. Ryder is exposed to that technology in order to keep it out of the hands of gangsters who are shaking the scientist down. This causes him to turn into a metahuman with a split personality known as The Creeper. The memories of these multiple origins may be implanted to trick Ryder as The Creeper is later revealed to be a demon from Hell.

Key facts

Creeper is of human origin and first appeared in "The Coming of the Creeper!!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 537 recorded issue appearances, Creeper ranks among the most featured characters in comics.