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* Mostly averted in ''Invisible Inc.'': Chip fell into the magic spring while fully dressed, and has kept that set of clothes safe ever since. Of course, once he grows a bit...
* In ''Smoke'' by Donald Westlake, a small-time crook accidentally gets turned invisible after getting turned into a guinea pig by two [[Camp Gay]] (yes, it becomes relevant) skin cancer researchers. Westlake obviously did his research, as the titular character has to deal with all of the troubles of invisibility including exposure to the elements, having to fast to avoid having half-digested food showing, and being noticed at one point by a blind man.
* In the short story ''Hershey's Kisses'' by Ron Goulart (contained in ''The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II'' by Michael Ashley et al.), a young man in trouble with his (young, hot, female, hates him) new boss runs into a wizard. He ends up trying to save his career by doing this, breaking & entering, and kissing the magic tattoo on her butt [[Rule of Three|three times]] as she sleeps. It wears off prematurely: It turns out she'd hired the wizard in a gambit to get him to her apartment, naked, as he failed to [[
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' novel ''Pack Animals'', Ianto Jones is invisible for about half of the book. At one point he must sneak into a secret facility and is forced to do so nude, since his invisible clothes were ruined. His teammates also bar him from eating anything beforehand, as a floating blob of digesting food would be noticeable (not to mention disgusting).
* [[Played With]] in one of R.L. Stine's ''[[Ghosts Of Fear Street]]'' books,
* ''[[Wild Cards]]'' plays with it with Wraith, a [[Classy Cat Burglar]] who turns semi-transparent and intangible. However, as she can only do so while holding on to a certain amount of mass and she'd actually like to get away with some of her stolen goods, she performs most of her heists in a mask and bikini.
** The series also features an inversion similar to the ''Vanishing Man'' example listed below—Chrysalis, a Joker whose invisibility is always on and only applies to her skin and hair.
* In one of ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' novels, the book's protagonist finds a [[Lost Colony]] whose settlers have gained strange powers after landing. One of these groups calls themselves Shadows and has
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