(America's Greatest Comics 001, 1941)
An invisible killer is on the loose in New York City, robbing banks and hijacking gold shipments and murdering bank clerks, and while an invisible killer is a very scary thing to contemplate we must as ourselves: is armed robbery the best criminal use of the power of invisibility? If nothing else, a stealthier approach would have kept the involvement of an invisible man a secret for longer, since as it stands the poor gunned-down bank clerk in the above panels managed to survive long enough to tell the police about him.
All of this criminal activity draws the attention of Bulletman and Bulletgirl, of course, and soon enough they are face to nothing with the Invisible Man in a deserted street. Sadly for the crime statistics, the Invisible Man seems to have the kind of invisibility that renders him completely uncatchable, even during a long conversation with Bulletman, a man wearing a hat that allows him to fly and who, crucially, can see him for part of the time.
Though the Invisible Man's reign of terror continues for some time after this confrontation, his downfall comes after Bulletman realizes that invisibility is only a useful superpower in lighted areas and that battling him in darkness will level the playing field. Just why this is a more effective approach that simply flailing wildly at the sound of his voice is a mystery to me but I guess we must acknowledge success when it happens.
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