Delmar Dice Dimant

Delmar Dice Dimant

A Metropolis “gang chieftain, whose specialty is bank and jewelry store robberies.” In Spring 1944, Dimant and two of his fellow rackets czars, Rex Ratlan, alias “the Rattler’’ , whose mob “prefers crimes of stealth such as warehouse burglaries,” and Emory “Emperor” Auslinger, a “master schemer and leader of terrorists who don’t care what crimes they commit,if the loot is plentiful”, resort to kidnapping, attempted murder, and sabotage in an effort to prevent the publication of an incriminating article about them in the 100th Anniversary edition of the Daily Planet, but the villains are repeatedly thwarted and finally apprehended through the heroic efforts of Superman (WF No. 13: “The Freedom of the Press!”) (TGSB).