{"id":4892,"date":"2025-03-12T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T03:14:31","slug":"864-torch-goes-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/864-torch-goes-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"864 – Torch Goes Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Torch solo story from Strange Tales #101, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

As DC did before with its teen heroes Superboy<\/a> and Robin<\/a> in the 1940s, Marvel attempted to spin the Human Torch out into solo adventures in Strange Tales #101 (July 1962). The story itself is pretty forgettable, but they do establish a few facts: Johnny Storm is still in high school and is (somehow) still maintaining a secret identity – even though it’s widely known that his sister is the Invisible Girl and no one in the Fantastic Four wears any kind of disguise… oookay.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Torch captures his first villain in Strange Tales #101, July 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In this issue, Johnny fights “The Destroyer”, a saboteur who threatens an amusement park from finishing its construction. Why? He turns out to be a Scooby-Doo type villain, one of the very newspaper publishers who had been sent a ransom-type note by the Destroyer that construction should halt. Yeah but why though? Well … uh, he’s smuggling information to the Reds in a submarine parked off the coast of the amusement park… I guess. You can almost hear the off-the-cuff suggestions next to the Marvel Comics water cooler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least there was a nice cameo by the Thing and a re-telling of the Fantastic Four origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As DC did before with its teen heroes Superboy and Robin in the 1940s, Marvel attempted to spin the Human Torch out into solo adventures in Strange Tales #101 (July 1962). The story itself is pretty forgettable, but they do establish a few facts: Johnny Storm is still in high school and is (somehow) still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[754,591,91,90,235,251,642],"class_list":["post-4892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-754","tag-fantastic-four","tag-human-torch","tag-marvel","tag-secret-identity","tag-teenager","tag-the-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4892\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}