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 re-caging 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)