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Issue: Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch #1 (66)
Publication Date: January 2006
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Issues: #1 (66) of 2 Issues (4 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Direct Limited Collector's Edition
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/20/2006
Volume: 1
Pages: 280
ISBN: 0785120718
UPC/EAN: 75960612071000111
Price: $87.95 CAD
$54.99 USD
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Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
42 (18 stories, 2 covers) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: Reprints Human Torch stories from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #101-117 and Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #2. Volume 66 in the Marvel Masterworks Library. Limited printing of 1,460 copies. Barcode on the dustjacket back inside flap.
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Publication Type: Hardcover
Color: color
Dimensions: 7.25 in. x 10.25 in.
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Binding: hardcover with dustjacket
Publishing Format: collected edition
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Contents

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Introduction

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Starring: The Fabulous Human Torch!

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The Human Torch

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Character(s): Destroyer [Charles Stanton]
Synopsis: In his home town of Glenville, Johnny Storm investigates sabotage at an amusement park. He finds that the sabotage was aimed at a structure that blocked messages to a Communist submarine. The messages were from the editor of the newspaper, a Communist spy.
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Job Number: V-846
Disclose Notes: First Silver Age Human Torch solo story. This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7pp) and Part 2–"The Flaming Fury Strikes Back!" (6 pp). Contains diagram of Sue & Johnny's house & brief recap of the Fantastic Four's origin. Splash bills Johnny as "America's Favorite Superhero".
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Prisoner of the Wizard! / Who Needs You? / What Was the Dreaded Secret of the Hidden Planet?

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Prisoner of the Wizard

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Synopsis: The Human Torch is tricked and trapped by the renowned genius the Wizard, who impersonates the Torch to frame him for crimes. The Torch escapes, captures the Wizard and clears his name with the help of his sister the Invisible Girl.
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Disclose Notes: This story is divided into two parts: an untitled part one (7pp) and Part 2–"Wizard's Wiles!" (6pp). The last page includes an advertisement for Strange Tales Annual (Marvel, 1962 series) #1 (1962).
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Prisoner of the 5th Dimension!

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Prisoner of the 5th Dimension!

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Character(s): Zemu [later spelled "Xemu"] (introduction); Valeria (introduction); Phineas (introduction); Theos; George Bentley; Mr. Harris (cameo)
Synopsis: The Human Torch discovers an impending invasion from the 5th Dimension, but he is captured by that dimension’s tyrannical ruler. The Torch is freed by the tyrant’s opponents and helps them his troops, freeing his subjects and saving Earth from invasion.
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Disclose Notes: This story is divided into three parts: an untitled part one (5pp), Part 2—"Trapped in Another World!" (5pp) and Part 3—"The End of Zemu!" (3pp). Zemu next appears in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #158 (May 1975) as "Xemu". Valeria and Phineas next appear in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series) #159 (June 1975).
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Paste-Pot Pete

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Paste-Pot Pete!

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Synopsis: Human Torch stops Paste-Pot Pete from stealing an experimental missile from the military.
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Job Number: V-977
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The Return of the Wizard!

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The Return of the Wizard!

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Synopsis: In prison, The Wizard becomes a model prisoner—just so he can become a trustee, work in the hospital, have access to chemicals...and break jail! The police soon have him surrounded in his house, but can't get in because of its defenses. He challenges the Torch to a battle to decide who is the better man. Against Sue's advice Johnny accepts the challenge, and he does pretty well until Sue shows up to "help" him. Thanks to her, he's caught, and both are almost killed in a bomb blast. But Johnny manages to free them both, get rid of the bomb, and corral the "superior intellect".
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The Threat of the Torrid Twosome!

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Character(s): Acrobat [Carl Zante]
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The Threat of the Torrid Twosome

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Character(s): Acrobat [Carl Zante] (introduction); Miracle Man [Joshua Ayers] (flashback)
Synopsis: The Acrobat tricks the Human Torch into helping him rob a bank before double crossing him. The Torch chases and captures the thief with the help of the Fantastic Four.
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Disclose Notes: This is the first appearance of Johnny's obstacle training course and the last story in which Johnny worries about having a "secret identity".
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The Human Torch vs. the Mighty Sub-Mariner

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Disclose Notes: Pays tribute to the various Torch/Sub-Mariner battles of the early 1940's!
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The Master of Flame vs. The Monarch of the Sea!!

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Synopsis: The Human Torch goes looking for Sub-Mariner in order to beat him and win more respect. He traps Sub-Mariner beneath the ocean floor and returns to the surface.
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The Painter of a Thousand Perils

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Character(s): The Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile]
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The Painter of a Thousand Perils!

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Character(s): Painter [Wilhelm Van Vile] (introduction); "Scar" Tobin; Scar's Gang [Nick; Sam; Eddie]; Zemu (flashback)
Synopsis: A counterfeiter caught by the Human Torch finds magic paints and uses them to escape from prison and strike back at the Torch. The Torch realizes what is happening and uses the magic paints to fool the Painter and defeat him.
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Imps from Pandora's Box!

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Character(s): Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone]
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The Sorcerer and Pandora's Box

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Character(s): Sorcerer [Dorian Murdstone] (introduction); Pandora (flashback)
Synopsis: The Human Torch fights a sorcerer that unleashes the evils imprisoned in Pandora’s Box for his own profit.
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The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete

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The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete!

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Synopsis: Johnny practices on his obstacle course, then thinks back on his adventures with The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete. By a wild coincidence, Pete breaks The Wizard out of jail and the two join forces. They frame Johnny as a spy, but their partnership is strained by Wiz's megalomania. "I'm a partner, not a servant, you know!" says Pete.
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How Can the Human Torch Defend Himself against the Attacks of the Asbestos Man?

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Character(s): Asbestos Man [Professor Orson Kasloff]
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Fighting to the Death with the Asbestos Man!

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Character(s): Asbestos Man [Orson Kasloff] (introduction, origin); Blackie Barker
Synopsis: A frustrated scientist invents a fireproof suit in order to impress underworld hoods and become their partner in crime. The Torch is at first unable to defeat him, but with the advice of his sister he calms down and outsmarts the Asbestos Man.
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The Living Bomb!

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The Living Bomb!

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Character(s): Ted Braddock (TV commentator); Charles Lawson; Moxie Gahagan
Synopsis: A TV host starts a public campaign against the Human Torch. The Torch’s efforts to regain his popularity fail, but when he stops the high tech thief the Eel from detonating a powerful bomb he is redeemed.
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The Amazing Spider-Man Face-to-Face with... The Human Torch

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On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Fox [Reynard Slinker] (introduction); Deputy Police Inspector Rudd
Synopsis: An art thief frames Spider-Man and the Human Torch tries to hunt him down. Spider-Man convinces the Torch of his innocence, and the two track down the thief together.
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Job Number: X-356
Disclose Notes: Features Spider-Man's first rendezvous with the Torch on top of the Statue of Liberty.
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Plantman!

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The Coming of the Plantman!

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Character(s): Mr. Evans (introduction)
Synopsis: The Human Torch saves his new girlfriend Doris’s father from a disgruntled gardener who gains the ability to control plants.
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Disclose Notes: Doris Evans would continue as Johnny's semi-reluctant girlfriend until the end of his solo series.
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Captain America Returns to Challenge the Human Torch!

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Character(s): Captain America [Carl Zante; also as The Acrobat]
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The Human Torch Meets... "Captain America"

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Character(s): Acrobat [Carl Zante; disguised as Captain America]
Synopsis: The Human Torch is upstaged by the return of Captain America, but the Torch realizes that it is his old enemy the Acrobat in disguise and defeats him.
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Job Number: X-449
Disclose Notes: This story involving a Captain America imposter was a try-out to test the idea of reviving him. The real Cap would return only 4 months after the original publication in Avengers, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964).
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The Uncanny Sandman!

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The Sandman Strikes!

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Synopsis: The Human Torch fights and defeats Spider-Man’s old enemy Sandman.
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The Human Torch Battles the Thing!

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In the Clutches of the Puppet Master!

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Synopsis: The Puppet Master manipulates the Thing into fighting the Human Torch, hoping to pick off the Fantastic Four one at a time.
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The Return of the Eel!

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The Return of the Eel!

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Synopsis: Having served his time, The Eel is released from jail, but Johnny's suspicious because he left prison wearing his Eel costume. Taking a security guard job at an aquarium, The Eel begins pulling crimes, but eventually, Johnny tracks him down and defeats him again.
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Job Number: X-546
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Biographies

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Disclose Notes: Biographies for Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Larry Lieber, and Jerry Siegel

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