The Leopard

The Leopard

A cunning and ruthless criminal, his identity concealed by a leopard's-head mask, who commits a series of spectacular crimes involving big cats, as when he looses a pack of wild cats in the Denmar Financial District so that he and his gang can loot the area uninterrupted while the police are preoccupied with recaging the animals. The Leopard, who is secretly Sam Kennedy, the "publicity man" for the Cosmos Circus, is apprehended along with his henchmen in January-February 1943 through the combined efforts of Superman and Herman "the Heroic" Hoskins, a wacky but well-intentioned Superman admirer and self-styled super-hero ("I wanta fight crooks- -I wanna help th' weak an' needy") who dresses in a ridiculous costume loosely modeled after Superman's but who nevertheless deserves high marks for pitching in bravely to help bring the Leopard and his henchmen to justice (S No. 20/3: "Lair of the Leopard!")(TGSB).