(Top-Notch Comics 010, 1940)
The antagonist of the Bob Phantom story in Top-Notch Comics 010 is Joe Chizzler, who uses his low-rent marriage agency to set scumbags up with wives then murder the wives for insurance payouts. It's a mean, low-rent, misogynistic little scheme, and the only saving grace of/reason I'm talking about it is the fact that the actual murdering is done by this character, the Crawler.
Is the Crawler a superhuman? Just a very talented human fly? We cannot know! He crawls up walls and he pulls people out of windows and that's it.
Walt "Bob Phantom" Whitney figures it all out, of course, and since the police in his version of NYC are some of the most incompetent in comics it is up to him to solve the problem with his patented combination of gossip column rabble-rousing and teleportation-heavy vigilantism. The former earns him a visit from the Crawler...
... and the latter helps him deliver a taste of the Crawler's own methods to him.
Our subject is dead on page four of a six page story, but for the completionists: Joe Chizzler takes the Crawler's death as a sign that someone is on to him and he should blow town. He bumps off his gang in order to avoid paying them their shares of the loot and then Bob Phantom shows up and throws Chizzler out of a window in the second bit of bit of poetic justice of the story.
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