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Patent Leather Kid. The Patent Leather Kid was created by Erle Stanley Gardner (Black Barr, Major Copley Brane, Terry Clane, Bertha Cool, Ken Corning, Speed Dash, Jax Keen, Barney Killigen, Bob Larkin, Lester Leith, Señor Lobo, The Man in the Silver Mask, Perry Mason, Ed Migraine, Phantom Crook, Paul Pry (II), Doug Selby, Pete Wennick, White Rings, Gramps Wiggins, Bob Zane, Sidney Zoom) and appeared in fourteen stories in Detective Fiction Weekly from 1930 to 1934, beginning with “The Gems of Tai Lee” (Detective Fiction Weekly, Mar. 25, 1930).

The Patent Leather Kid is a Costumed Avenger. Dan Seller is a rich socialite who has the good fortune to belong to the same social club as Police Inspector Phil Brame. When Seller hears about a crime from Brame, who is usually boasting about the police's solution to that crime, Seller puts on his costume (patent leather mask and shoes, black gloves and tuxedo) and goes out among the underworld and finds and catches the real criminal, who Brame and the police rarely suspect.

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