History
Chief Wilson is being visited by a woman who is searching for her missing father, Professor Jan Skarda who is a leading atomic scientist from Europe. As the Torch and Toro enter the office she explains that she and her father escaped their home land when the communists took over. She managed to escape, but her father did not, but she had just recently learned that he managed to break free of the communists and flee to America and pleads to Wilson to help her find her father. Learning that her father was working on new fissionable material for atomic bombs, Wilson agrees to help search for him, and the Torch and Toro accompany him.
With a description of Skarda, they manage to locate his last known whereabouts in a run down tenement apartment that Skarda took out under the alias of John Bartorius. They find that Skarda's room has been sacked, searching for clues the Torch finds a newspaper clipping about Dean Prentiss running for governor. Deciding to investigate the connection, the Torch and Toro flame on and fly to the Prentiss estate. There they frighten the guard dogs and begin searching the property. Looking through a basement window they find Skarda being tortured by two communist spies.
The two flaming heroes burn their way into the home, defeating the spies but Prentiss tries to take Skarda hostage. The Torch melts the traitor's weapon and he flees the scene. While the Torch sends Skarda off to safety with Toro, he goes after Prentiss. Prentiss tries to attack him with a bulldozer but the Torch destroys it with his flame powers. When Prentiss tries to flee he is ironically attack and mauled to death by his own guard dogs. In the aftermath of the battle, the Torch and Toro bring Skarda back to Chief Wilson's office where he is happily reunited with his daughter.[1]