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Issue Details

Issue #106
Published March 1963
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Distributed to newstands in December 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website.

Cover Details - "The Threat of the Torrid Twosome!"

Characters Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Dick Ayers
Notes Dick Ayers per Henry Kujawa (22 August 2007). Originally listed George Roussos.
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967) [0.25 page]; in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006)

13 page The Human Torch story "The Threat of the Torrid Twosome"

Characters Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Miracle Man [Joshua Ayers] (flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (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.
Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Letters John Duffy
Notes The Acrobat next appears in issue #114 (November 1963). This is the first appearance of Johnny's obstacle training course and the last story in which Johnny worries about having a "secret identity".
Reprinted in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967); in Human Torch, The (Marvel, 1974 series) #6 (July 1975); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #8 (July 13, 1971) [as "La minaccia del terribile duo", Italian translation]

2 page text story "The Recipe"

Characters Josie
Synopsis A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her.
Genre occult
Letters typeset
Notes Text story with illustration.
Reprinted from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956)

5 page story "Man on the Scaffold!"

Characters Willie Wopper; Sam; Charlie
Synopsis A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster.
Genre occult
Script Stan Lee
Pencils Steve Ditko
Inks Steve Ditko
Letters Artie Simek
Reprinted in Vault Of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (September 1975)

5 page story "The Mystery of the Purple Planet!"

Characters Bentley
Synopsis A space expedition is sent to a distant planet when it is suddenly covered with an artificial mist. The team finds gold and takes it, but are transformed into aliens like the inhabitants.
Genre science fiction
Script Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script)
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman
Letters Ray Holloway
Notes Script and letters credits by Barry Pearl.