Comics:Strange Tales Vol 1 108

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Appearing in "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"

Featured Characters:

• Human Torch

Supporting Characters:

Villains:

• The Painter (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• The Wizard (Appears in flashback and main story)

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Synopsis for "The Painter of a Thousand Perils!"

With the Human Torch cracking down on "Scar" Toben's crime operations, Tobin has become desperate to find a way of dispose of the Torch once and for all. He ends up hiring the Painter, a former counterfeiter who was caught by the Human Torch when the Torch noticed that his counterfeits had obvious flaws. The Painter has a set of paints that turn whatever he paints into reality.
The Painter explains that when he escaped from prison he had found a secret cavern where he found hieroglyphics from an alien race explaining how the paints left behind work. The Painter then uses his paints to create various traps to try and stop the Torch. His final plan involve creating fakes of the other members of the Fantastic Four to lure the Torch into a room where he is seemingly destroyed by a grenade.
However the Torch manages to break free because he realized that he was dealing with fakes when he noticed that none of the other FF members had the famous Fantastic Four insignia on their uniforms. Tracking the Painter back to Tobin's lair, the Torch burns all the pains and takes all the criminals to jail where the Torch reveals to the Painter how he saw through his traps.

Appearing in "The Silent Giant"

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Appearing in "The Iron Warrior"

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Synopsis for "The Iron Warrior"

A knight of King Arthur's court resents the favor shown Merlin and so challenges him to a battle. Merlin's champion is a black knight who does succeed in winning the competition. The envious knight still sneers at Merlin and claims he has no true magic for the black knight bested him by force of arms whereupon Merlin makes a mystic pass and the empty suit of armor falls in pieces upon the ground.

Appearing in "The Heat's On!"

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