{"id":1066,"date":"2022-08-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:05:18","slug":"minor-super-villain-098-the-invisible-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 098: THE INVISIBLE MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Detective Comics 041, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7fJWeYJjTMCagtPBjxfBzv9H50BVjM_FnZPC9m23Os8DWXAZl88Y-RRu1IWJXS97L9OZE7E4zJP0DYe9qJwyKc5BcxMovrumfNZDgD-8W_3cRYqhnGSEEfc_vmgiT40rHNvVNpw3llnbpjCARNJiTsBkADsprHoi6uGf64GQXd91M06EPNCYDjqebNQ\/s16000\/d1.%20the%20Invisible%20Man%20-%20Detective%20041,%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"367\" data-original-width=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi7fJWeYJjTMCagtPBjxfBzv9H50BVjM_FnZPC9m23Os8DWXAZl88Y-RRu1IWJXS97L9OZE7E4zJP0DYe9qJwyKc5BcxMovrumfNZDgD-8W_3cRYqhnGSEEfc_vmgiT40rHNvVNpw3llnbpjCARNJiTsBkADsprHoi6uGf64GQXd91M06EPNCYDjqebNQ\/s16000\/d1.%20the%20Invisible%20Man%20-%20Detective%20041,%201940.JPG\" title=\"the Invisible Man\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>What makes them a super-villain?<\/b>&nbsp;He&#8217;s an espionage guy with an invisibility formula.<\/p>\n<p><b>What is interesting about them?<\/b>&nbsp;Invisible guys are often pretty dull comic book villains, but I will give the Invisible Man\/ Dr Ellis this: his cover identity is as a scientist in the team that is trying to catch him, and he&#8217;s evidently arrogant enough that he actually developed a formula for a gas that would render him visible again but assumed that investigator Cliff Crosby would not have the chemical knowhow to synthesize it. He was wrong!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Detective Comics 041, 1940) What makes them a super-villain?&nbsp;He&#8217;s an espionage guy with an invisibility formula. What is interesting about them?&nbsp;Invisible guys are often pretty dull comic book villains, but I will give the Invisible Man\/ Dr Ellis this: his cover identity is as a scientist in the team that is trying to catch him, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1012,17,80,286,1081,23,129,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-cliff-crosby","category-dc-comics","category-detective-comics","category-invisible","category-invisible-man","category-minor-super-villain","category-spy","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}