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THE INVISIBLE MAN (1897)
 
 

SOURCES:
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
"The Shadow and the Flash" by Jack London (1906)

DESCRIPTION: “...all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose. It was bright pink, and shiny just as it had been at first. He wore a dark-brown velvet jacket with a high black linen lined collar turned up about his neck. The thick black hair, escaping as it could below and between the cross bandages, projected in curious tails and horns, giving him the strangest appearance conceivable...” (The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells)

NOTES: The Invisible Man has no powers over and beyond his invisibility. What makes him dangerous is the fact that he is insane.

HISTORY: The movies have used the invisible man for many purposes. James Whale used the original to scare as did the Kevin Bacon film, The Hollow Man. On television David Mccallum used the power to be a good guy, while in juvenile films the power is used only for sneaking into the girl's changeroom. The Chevy Chase film The Memoirs of an Invisible Man tried to explore some deeper issues but failed at the box office.