Now here I stand truly alone -- unknown and unsuspected, I hold the fate of a planet -- in my hands! 
Appearing in "The Coming of Captain Marvel!"
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) ⏵ (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
- ⏴ Zarek ⏵ (First appearance)
- Jeremy Logan ⏵
- Smith
- Sentry 459 (Mentioned)
- Ronan the Accuser (Mentioned)
Locations:
Items:
- Uni-Beam
Vehicles:
- Kree Starship
Synopsis for "The Coming of Captain Marvel!"
A Kree crew, along with Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) lands on earth. Under Yon-Rogg's command, who plots for Una to be his instead of Mar-Vell's, the crew leaves Captain Marvel on earth while the Kree crew watch from space.
Appearing in "The Threat of the Jet"
Men's Adventures #27The Threat of the Jet
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Jet (Gary Akres) (Death)
Other Characters:
- Jake Macklin
- Bobby Macklin
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Threat of the Jet"
Men's Adventures #27The Threat of the Jet
Betty Wilson takes the Human Torch and Toro to the hospital to meet Jack Macklin one of her father's best special agents before he took ill. Macklin has asked to meet with the Torch and Toro to express his fears that his son has been hanging out with the wrong crowd of people. As the Torch and Macklin discuss the situation, Toro turns on the television to a special editorial from TV personality Gary Akers. Akers is telling the listening audience that the Human Torch and Toro are menaces who need to be put behind bars as he sees that they cause more harm than they do good. The program is quickly turned off and Macklin dismisses it as sensationalism to draw in viewers.
An hour later the Torch and Toro pay a visit to Chief Wilson to see what he can do to help them with the issue of Jake Macklin's son Bobby, however Wilson has more pressing concerns to deal with. He explains to the two flaming heroes that he has been getting reports of criminals from all over the country arriving in New York and then suddenly vanishing without a trace. The Torch decides to start with Bobby Macklin as the boy has been seen hanging out with criminal types recently. As they fly to Bobby's home, Toro thinks he sees a man flying over the city, but the Torch dismisses it as Toro's imagination and suggests that his partner has been reading too many science fiction stories.
When they arrive at the Macklin residence it is just in time to see a bunch of thugs taking Bobby into a car and driving off. The Torch and Toro follow after it and they are led to a subway tunnel. Following after the crooks, they find a secret meeting of all the missing criminals. Their leader is a jetpack wearing masked criminal calling himself the Jet, who is plotting to take over a television station and order the evacuation of New York City so that they can loot the entire city.
The Torch and Toro flame on and try to break up the meeting and capture the Jet, but the Jet manages to escape when he opens a gas valve filling the room with explosive gas, forcing the Torch and Toro to flame off in order to prevent an explosion that could kill thousands of innocent people. Turning off the gas they pursue the Jet but run into Bobby instead. Bobby explains he joined up with the crooks to try and assert his independence from his father but realized the mistake he was making when learning the Jet's plan. Bobby explains that the Jet intends to take control of the television transmitter on the top of the Empire State Building and send out a broadcast warning of an atomic attack on the city in order to trick people into fleeing in a panic. While this is going on, the Jet intended to sabotage the city utilities to foment more chaos. The Torch orders Bobby to go to Chief Wilson to warn him and send men to stop the sabotage of the city utilities while he and Toro go after the Jet.
Following after the Jet through the tunnels under the city, the Torch and Toro are tricked into being sealed in an air tight room. With oxygen running low they cannot generate sufficient flame to free themselves. However before they can suffocate in the room, they are freed by Bobby who has gotten the aid of maintenance workers before going to get the Chief. The pair race to the studio where the Jet intends to broadcast his phony atomic attack warning and catch Gary Akers giving the news over the radio. The Torch chases him off, leaving Toro behind to tell the listening audience that the warning was all a hoax.
Akers changes into the Jet and confronts the Torch in the sky with a flame thrower, telling the Torch that his suit is lined with asbestos to prevent the Torch from harming him. However, the Torch instead ignites the gas in the Jet's rocket pack causing it to explode and sending the Jet falling to his death in a blazing fireball. Later, the Torch and Toro take Bobby back to his father where the two reconcile their differences.
Appearing in "The Beachhead Blitz"
All Winners Comics #12
(originally printed as Horror of the Ghost Fiend)
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
Synopsis for "The Beachhead Blitz"
All Winners Comics #12
(originally printed as Horror of the Ghost Fiend)
An American fighter plane en route to Basra is shot down by Nazi planes and an important document is recovered from the wreckage and altered by Nazi agents and then given to their operatives known as the Wisp to smuggle into Mecca.
When the news reaches the United States the Human Torch and Toro get a call Major Brant who requests their audience. When they arrive at Army Intelligence, Brant explains that the document was a defense agreement between the United States and British authorities in Arabia. Brant suspects that the document might have been altered to turn the people of Mecca against the United States by a false threat of destroying the holy land. They accept the case and head to Basra to get further orders. Along the way spot a Nazi sub and blow it out of the water.
There they learn that a Nazi spy known as the Wisp is said to be the one whom is attempting to smuggle the altered document into the country. The trouble is that military intelligence does not know the true identity of the Wisp. Exiting military intelligence, the two heroes stpo a suspicious looking British couple in the town market and watch as they hand a sheet of paper to a fig vendor.
They decide to follow the vendor to see where he goes and follow him to a native dive where he meets up with the man who gave him the slip of paper. The fig vendor tells his allies that he has been followed. A fight breaks out and the English man fled the scene. They are told by the fig vendor to find the British man and the Torch and Toro follow after him. Arriving at the residence of the man and the woman, they tell the woman of the house that her husband is a Nazi spy. She feigns being devastated but is really in league with her husband and drops a gas capsule that knocks the two heroes out.
The man has the Human Torch and Toro placed on a press that lowers every five minutes insuring the heroes will be crushed to death in 25 minutes while they go and deliver the doctored document. However, when left alone the Human Torch and Toro manage to break free. The Torch and Toro confront the man they believe is the Wisp and are shocked to find that he has nothing but a blank page and that he was nothing more but a decoy. Suspecting his wife, they rush in on the Khan's throne room and catch the woman before she can hand over the forged document. The Torch unmasks her revealing her to be a much younger woman and really the Wisp, and foiling her mission.
Appearing in "Kill Captain America!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Toro (Thomas Raymond)
- Ksa (First appearance; dies)
Other Characters:
- George (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Synthezoids
- Human-Inhuman Hybrids
- Unidentified alien race
Synopsis for "Kill Captain America!"
The Human Torch and Toro go to visit the Torch's friend George to see how his work to design a spaceship is coming along. As they walk to George's house they spot a flying saucer fly by. Toro then calls them into the house where there is a news report of flying saucers being spotted all over the country. The following report is about a plague that is ravaging the country and that authorities are trying to make a connection between the plague and the flying saucers. The Torch however is not convinced as he believes that if the aliens meant to attack them they would have done so already. With people fleeing town in a panic, the Torch and Toro spot the flying saucer again and decide to follow it.
They board the ship and are meet by the alien's leader, a being called Ksa, who tells them that they have come to Earth due to the fact that a form of cosmic dust has appeared on Earth and is the cause of the plague and that they have created a serum that will cure those infected. The Torch warns Ksa and his people that the people of Earth are paranoid and fearful of the aliens and believe that they brought the plague with them and that Ksa and his people will be attacked should they try to land their ship.
The Torch and Toro agree to go back to the surface and try to convince the people that the aliens mean no harm, but the plague stricken people are too fearful to listen and think that the two heroes are traitors and attack. They then douse the Torch and Toro's flames with a fire hose and place them in a steel room that sprays them with water. However the Torch manages to keep his hand dry and uses his flame to melt through the door.
They rush outside where they see that Ksa and his people have landed their ship and they are surrounded by an angry mob. Beaten within an inch of his life, Ksa still hands the antidote over to his attacked before he dies. The man realizes to his horror what he has done. Soon the cure is administered, but the entire episode has convinced George that man is not ready for the stars and decides to destroy his plans for his rocket ship.
Appearing in "The Abduction of King Arthur!"
Featured Characters:
- Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia) (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- King Arthur
- Merlin
- Knights of the Round Table (First appearance)
- Sir Lancelot (First appearance)
- Sir Galahad (First appearance)
- Lady Rosamund (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Morgan Le Fay (First appearance)
- Mordred the Evil (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Thunder (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Excalibur (First appearance)
- Black Knight Armor (First appearance)
Synopsis for "The Abduction of King Arthur!"
The Castle of King Arthur is put on high alert as someone begins to approach the castle. Watching intently are Mordred and Morgan le Fay, who quickly recognize the man approaching as Sir Percy, Mordred's nephew. Seen as no threat, Percy is allowed to enter the castle and seek an audience with King Arthur due to his noble blood, but none of those gathered are overly impressed by the man who appears to be a weakling. Meeting with King Arthur, Sir Percy explains that he has come to seek a boon from the King for shelter after his lands were taken over by the Baron of Emsore. The King allows for this, but all are disgusted by Percy's cowardice when he tells them that he does not seek to reclaim his land. King Arthur agrees to allow Sir Percy to stay in the castle and assigns Merlin, his court magician, to show Percy to a room.
Merlin, having summoned Sir Percy to the castle, takes the young man to his quarters and thanks him for playing the part of a foppish coward in order to act as his secret agent in stopping Mordred from taking over the castle, explaining that King Arthur does not believe Merlin's warnings. As part of his mission, Sir Percy is given a suid of armor and is christened the Black Knight. Merlin tells Percy that he must act as the realms masked champion and that none should know his true identity. Suddenly, some of Mordred's men, having overheard their discussion storm into Percy's quarters and attack, but the Black Knight easily slays them to cover his secret.
Days later, Sir Percy goes about the castle cementing his cover as a coward. When King Arthur and some men go out on a hunting party, Percy declines to join. Rushing off to change into the Black Knight he runs into Lady Rosamund, ward of King Arthur, and a woman for whom Percy is smitten by. She is uninterested in the cowardly Percy and tells him to watch where he is going. Slipping away to change into the Black Knight, Sir Percy rides off and the Black Knight is glimpsed by Rosamund who wonders who the stranger armored knight could be.
While out in the forests, King Arthur goes after a wild boar and is attacked by warriors who are loyal to Mordred. Arthur fights them off but as his strength begins to wane, the attackers are about to slay him when the Black Knight arrives and saves his life. When King Arthur asks the Black Knight who he is, the Knight refuses to divulge his identity, telling King Arthur that he is a loyal defender of Camelot. Mordred soon arrives at the scene and believes that the Black Knight is attacking the King and tries to "defend" Arthur, but the Black Knight holds his own until King Arthur orders Mordred to stand down. Despite Mordred's protests Arthur then officially knights the Black Knight and tells him that as a servant of Camelot, he will honor the Black Knight's need to keep his identity a secret.
Meanwhile, Merlin watches the entire affair through his crystal ball and is pleased that his plans are being set into motion.
Appearing in "The Sub-Mariner Strikes!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Byrrah
- Communists
Other Characters:
- Atlanteans
- Betty Dean (Only in flashback)
Locations:
Synopsis for "The Sub-Mariner Strikes!"
With his super-human abilities fading, the Sub-Mariner is asked by Namora to return to Atlantis to meet with the Emperor. There the Emperor shows Namor that his once mighty powers have been reduced to only the ability to breath underwater and enhanced strength. The Emperor explains to Namor that they have developed a machine that will restore Namor's full strength, invulnerability and flight. However Byrrah has seen to it that it won't work after stealing the formula needed to operate the machine. Suspecting that Byrrah was responsible, the Sub-Mariner confronts him and forces him to turn over the formula.
Namor then subjects to himself the device and finds his powers restored to normal. Happy to find his experiment a success, the Emperor orders Namor to resume his one man war on the surface world. Despite Namor's pleas that he has friends on the surface (such as Betty Dean) he has no choice but to follow the Emperor's orders. On the surface, the Sub-Mariner spots what appears to be a Russian sub attacking an American ship. Disabling the sub, he witnesses Byrrah and his men and his faithful minions flee the sub, in an attempt to make Namor betray the Emperor's orders.
Namor holds the American ship together and helps it get back to port. There the Sub-Mariner informs the crew of the ship that it was he who helped keep the ship together and get them to safety. When the crew refuses to believe him, the Sub-Mariner angrily sinks it before returning home.
Notes
- References: Fantastic Four #64 and Fantastic Four #65
Trivia
- Series continued from Fantasy Masterpieces #11.
- This issue contains a letters page, Marvel Mailbag. Letters are published from David Shields, Jim Kyzer, Jacob Kurtessis, and Scott Willet.
