el Hombre Invisible (The Invisible Man)

Real Name:Valente Delmar

Identity/Class: Human with magical ring.

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Panfilo Landeros (sidekick)

Enemies: Unknown

Known Relatives: None known

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mexico

First Appearance: el Hombre Invisible (from "the 50s into the 60s.")

Powers/Abilities: Able to turn invisible.

History: "El Hombre Invisible (the Invisible Man), was Valente Delmar, who owned a "magic ring" that allowed him to turn invisible. The ring only made Valente's body invisible, not his clothing, so he did all of his adventuring in the (invisible) buff. His sidekick was Panfilo Landeros, who became (apparently later on in the series) the Mayor of "Pueblo Manso."

Comments: Thanks to Jean-Paul Tantte Rodriguez for providing information on and images of this character, and to Jon Glade of the International Comics Club for passing this information on. In addition to the above origin information, Jean-Paul also relayed the following through Jon: "The writer of the series was Jose P. Candia, and the artwork was by Francisco Ayala."

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

• Invisible Man, HG Wells' original

• The Invisible Man, member of the League of Extrordinary Gentlemen

• any other Invisible characters

Any Additions/Corrections? Please let me know.

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