One Panel #471: First Appearance of the Shade, Sort of

From Vigilante: "Billy Gunn's Mine" by Mort Weisinger and MortMeskin, Action Comics #43 (December 1941)

I was reading up on this issue of Action and I saw "first appearance of the Shade" and I got all excited. Starman fans take note! Alas, this guy has nothing to do with the Shade who would go on to bigger and better things and who actually first appears in Flash Comics #33 about nine months from now. Oh well. I might still have chosen this panel from the issue because of the daring perspective, Meskin giving us a close-up of the Shade and combining it with a long shot of his victim. I love it.