Marvel Comics
1939
First Published
3.39
Average Rating
65
Number of Pages
Part of Series
The one that started it all, featuring the first appearances of both the the android Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner!
Avg Rating
3.39
Number of Ratings
282
5 STARS
20%
4 STARS
22%
3 STARS
39%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
3%
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Authors
Carl Burgos
Author · 6 books
Max Finkelstein created Jim Hamond, the Human Torch, for Timely Comics (later evolved into the Marvel Comics) in 1939, using the pen-name Carl Burgos. He also created the Thunderer for Daring Mystery Comics. Both series were published by Timely Comics, the forerunner of Marvel. He was drafted in 1942 and did mostly commercial art in subsequent years, occasionally drawing science fiction stories for Marvel, by that time known as Atlas. He also drew the first story featuring the Beetle (Abner Jenkins) in Strange Tales #123, starring Johnny Storm, the second Human Torch. Two years later, in Fantastic Four Annual #4, Marvel published a battle between the two Human Torches, resulting in the death of Jim Hamond. Although his daughter tried to preserve as much as possible, Burgos set fire to much of the Human Torch materials he had retained from the 1940s, considering the story an excuse to reassert trademark on a character they were not using simply to spite him.
