10 Worst Comic Book Disguises Of All Time

Nowadays, The Flash has one of the more effectively concealed identities in the DC roster. A mask that fully covers the majority of your face is practical not only for concealing who you are, but also for making sure the poor speedsters don't get windburn basically all over them.

But this costume wasn't always the one used. In fact, in the golden age - when the Flash was Jay Garrick - this costume actually had no mask whatsoever, and thus concealed precisely nothing.

The idea was that the Flash used his superspeed powers to be constantly moving around, meaning that you could never quite get a solid reading on what his face actually looked like, as even when he was "stood still", his features would still be vibrating and thus blurry to us mere mortals.

This, in theory, sounds like a fairly solid plan, were it not for one thing: it relies on the Flash literally never being subdued. If he is properly stopped for one second, the jig is up on his secret identity - and that's a bad time for everyone involved.

Thankfully the older age of comics was more concerned with having the Joker say the word "boner" and wacky hijinks than ruining Jay Garrick's life, so this never became a huge issue.