Hit Comics #9 (1941)

Two creeps sneak into a room where Joe Hercules is sleeping, and use a hypodermic needle to inject him with an extremely strong dose of dope, carry him away to the tallest skyscraper in town, go to the roof, and toss him off it. He hits the sidewalk, still asleep, and remains so until hours later, when traffic noise and an angry cop wake him up, and the cop takes him downtown to see the judge. Joe complains that some persistent nuisance has been trying to kill him for four nights now (dropping him off the George Washington Bridge, running over him with a steam roller, dropping a boulder on his head, and now this thing with the skyscraper). The judge quietly decides that Joe is crazy and two burly bailiffs sneak up with a straightjacket and put it on him. Joe busts out of the straightjacket, and gradually starts to become annoyed, as at least three more cops run into the room and try to fight him. The cops adopt a more polite tone and Joe allows himself to be handcuffed and led to a waiting police car, supposedly on his way to jail, but instead he's delivered to a large country mansion, and shown to his own padded room. The escorting cop has lost the key to the handcuffs, but Joe helpfully busts them to bits, then settles down for his first good night's sleep in five days, he hopes. Meanwhile in a cheap transient hotel (Hobbs' Inn) on the outskirts of town, four gangsters are gloating about how they've finally gotten Hercules out of their way so they can go ahead with their big job, except wait, their associate Mug Mullin has warned them that the cops are suspicious, so they still need to be careful. That very night, the big job has gone sour, and the police are very noisily chasing the bad guys right past the asylum where Joe is, and the constant shooting eventually wakes him up and upsets him. Hercules bursts through the brick wall of his second-story room, leaps to the ground, and sprints in pursuit of the speeding cars. The bad guys are doing 90 mph when he catches them, lifts their open-top car, and shakes out all four of them. He wants some answers, so he crushes the car in his bare hands, then grabs one guy by the head; soon he knows the score, that these creeps have busted the gas and water mains in Hillberg , to lay the town open for looting. He ties them to a tree and runs to the town, gets into the utility tunnels, and makes extremely rough emergency repairs to the city's water main. Gas is everywhere and a lot of citizens are overcome by it, but Joe is unaffected, and eventually it dissipates, allowing regular work crews to have access. Joe returns to his four prisoners, finds out where their leader is, then picks them all up and carries them there. The front desk girl alerts the crime boss to Joe's arrival, and he pulls a pistol and shoots at him, from fairly close range, with no effect. Soon all five bad guys are in the same courtroom, facing the same judge who had Hercules committed earlier; Joe has no hard feelings about it.