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Quote1 Relax, Torch! Sometimes the less-glamorous, but tried-and-true police methods will get the best results! Quote2
Deputy Police Inspector Rudd

Appearing in "On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!"

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Synopsis for "On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man!"

Jealous of the press that Spider-Man is getting, the Human Torch has an opportunity to clash with the wall crawler when the villain known as the Fox frames Spider-Man for the theft of priceless art. However, after checking with police who believe that the Fox might be responsible for the thefts, the Torch works together with Spider-Man in capturing the Fox and turning him over to justice.

Appearing in "I Was the Invisible Man!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #67

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Supporting Characters:

  • Professor Howard

Antagonists:

  • Numerous unnamed criminals

Other Characters:

  • First National Bank
    • Unnamed Security Guard
  • Daily Globe (Name only)
  • Unidentified Police Department
    • Unnamed Sergeant
    • Numerous unnamed police officers
  • Unnamed Mailman
  • Chronicle (Name only)
  • Post Bugle (Name only)
  • News Courier (Name only)
  • Unnamed Boxing Champion
  • Carpenters
    • Pete
    • Two unnamed carpenters
  • Herbie

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Items:

  • Vibra-Light

Synopsis for "I Was the Invisible Man!"

Reprint of the 3rd story from
Strange Tales #67

A scientist uses a device that makes the particles of a living body move at the speed of light rendering him invisible to the eye. He conducts a series of stunts in order to build up a name for himself so he can them go public and cash in. After forty days he glances into the mirror that morning and realizes that he has aged forty years during that span. Since he has sped up his body so dramatically, his aging has accelerated in proportion, and he realizes with the little time left to him that he can no longer use his knowledge for selfish gain.

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Appearing in "I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Worlds #2

Featured Characters:

  • Detective Rick Dugan (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • I.G.S.S.D. (First appearance)
    • Unnamed Chief

Antagonists:

  • Xenon
  • Numerous unnamed Proximans

Other Characters:

  • Unnamed Pilot

Races and Species:

  • Humans
  • Alpha Centuriusians (First appearance)
  • New Lambdans (First appearance)
  • Uplisonians (First appearance)
  • Proximans (First appearance)

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (First appearance)
    • Alpha Centurius (First appearance)
    • New Lambda (First appearance)
    • Uplison (First appearance)
    • Proxima the Second (First appearance)

Synopsis for "I Was a Prisoner on the Planet of Plunder!"

Reprint of the 1st story from
Strange Worlds #2

Detective Rick Dugan member of the Inter-Galactic Spaceways Security Division is assigned by his chief officer to looking into the theft of stolen goods from a cargo ship that has had it happened six times. Rick interviewed the pilot who was oblivious to what happened. Rick attempted to use hypnosis on the pilot to try and rule it out which he did, but couldn't shake the feeling that hypnosis was still behind the thefts. Rick disguised himself as a pilot and made the next deliveries until he made it to Proxima the Second. There a group told him of their plans of using hypnosis through auditory means instead of ocular, but failed to do so against Rick who was deaf.

Appearing in "I Am Robot"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Strange Worlds #1

Featured Characters:

  • Unnamed Robot (First appearance; dies)

Supporting Characters:

  • Thorne (Robot's Creator)
  • Thorne's Wife
  • Thorne's Son

Antagonists:

  • Unnamed Alien
  • Kara

Other Characters:

  • Two unnamed associates of Thorne

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (2468 A.D.) (First appearance)
    • Milky Way (First appearance)
      • Sol (First appearance)
    • Unidentified Galaxy (Mentioned)

Items:

  • Strytum (First appearance) (Fragile Material)
  • Thermo-Barium (First appearance) (Metal)

Vehicles:

  • Flying Saucer

Synopsis for "I Am Robot"

Reprint of the 4th story from
Strange Worlds #1

A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.

Appearing in "Worlds Within Worlds!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
World of Fantasy #16

Featured Characters:

  • Paul Stratton (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Terry Mason (First appearance)
  • Dr. Edward Stone (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Dr. Stone's Assistant

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Items:

  • Paul Stratton's Microscopic Lens

Synopsis for "Worlds Within Worlds!"

Reprint of the 4th story from
World of Fantasy #16

A scientist is convinced that there are microscopic worlds inside microbes. He cannot find one, but if he'd kept looking then he would have found Earth.

Appearing in "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Strange Worlds #3

Featured Characters:

  • Gyor Kosice

Supporting Characters:

  • Gyor's Adoptive Mother
  • Gyor's Adoptive Father
  • Maria

Other Characters:

  • Gypsy Caravan
    • Numerous unnamed gypsies
  • Gretchen (Maria's Aunt)
  • Kosku (Gyor's Second Adoptive Father)
  • Greta (Gyor's Second Adoptive Mother)

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Synopsis for "I Was the Man Who Lived Twice!"

Reprint of the 5th story from
Strange Worlds #3

A boy adopted by gypsies refuses to work hard and lives a wasted life. As he reaches middle ages he is given a second chance at life when he is shown a fountain of youth and returned to infancy, to be found and adopted by another gypsy couple.

Appearing in "I Fly to the Stars!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Strange Worlds #3

Featured Characters:

  • Frank Coventry (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

  • Sally Lang (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Bob (X-700 Mechanic)
  • Robert Lang (First appearance)

Races and Species:

Locations:

  • Earth-Unknown (First appearance)
    • Milky Way (First appearance)
      • Sol (First appearance)
    • Unidentified Galaxy
      • Unidentified Solar System
        • Unidentified Planet

Vehicles:

  • X-700

Synopsis for "I Fly to the Stars!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Strange Worlds #3

In the year 2389 space pilots do not marry because, while six months passes for them on their journeys, decades pass for their sweethearts who remain behind on Earth.

Appearing in "Prison 2000 A.D."

Reprint of the 6th story from
World of Fantasy #16

Featured Characters:

  • John Fox (First appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Numerous unnamed colonists of Vestas 203 (Illusion or holographic simulation)

Races and Species:

  • Humans (First appearance)
  • Unidentified alien species
  • Dart Birds

Locations:

  • Earth-59265 (First appearance)

Synopsis for "Prison 2000 A.D."

Reprint of the 6th story from
World of Fantasy #16

In the year 2000 criminals are reconditioned through virtual reality.

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Appearing in "I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Strange Worlds #2

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Ogarth's Father (First appearance; dies)
  • Cnidos (First appearance)

Antagonists:

  • Junior
  • Junior's Mother
  • Numerous unnamed beach-goers

Other Characters:

  • New Atlantis
    • New Atlantis Army
      • Numerous unnamed soldiers
    • Numerous unnamed citizens of New Atlantis
  • Empire of Atlantis (Only in flashback)
    • Atlantean Guard
      • Luther (Only in flashback)
      • Numerous unnamed guards (Only in flashback)
    • Unnamed King (Mentioned)
    • Lertius (Only in flashback)
    • Vernia (Only in flashback)
    • Numerous unnamed citizens of Atlantis (Only in flashback)
    • Zeno (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

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Locations:

  • Earth (Main story and flashback)
    • New Atlantis / Atlantis (First appearance)
    • Atlantis (Only in flashback)

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Synopsis for "I Am the Scourge of Atlantis!"

Reprint of the 6th story from
Strange Worlds #2

The king of Atlantis is convinced that life still exists on the surface and leads an invasion fleet to make war on the world above. He finds that in the centuries since Atlantis sunk the pressures of the sea have made his people tiny as insects compared to surface humans, and they must return beneath the waves.

Appearing in "Nightmare Planet"

Reprint of the 1st story from
World of Fantasy #16

Featured Characters:

  • Colonel Ken Travers

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  • Numerous unnamed aliens

Other Characters:

  • United States Citizens
    • Joe
    • Mary
    • Mrs. Jones
    • Mrs. Jones' Son
    • Syd
    • Charlie
    • Numerous unnamed citizens
  • Charlie (Soldier)

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Synopsis for "Nightmare Planet"

Reprint of the 1st story from
World of Fantasy #16

Earth is terrified by the approach of a giant planet, but a military expedition finds that time moves more slowly on this planet, so they will not notice Earth.

Appearing in "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Worlds #1

Featured Characters:

  • Yeti (Kurt Hanson) (First appearance) (Unnamed) (Main story and flashback)

Supporting Characters:

  • Unnamed Lama (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

  • Former Yeti (First appearance)

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Synopsis for "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!"

Reprint of the 2nd story from
Strange Worlds #1

A man lies, cheats and steals to find the abominable snowman, and eventually discovers a lama who knows the secret of the snowman and is forced to summon it. He discovers that the snowman was a greedy man like him, cursed to wear a bestial form until another took his place. He is horrified as the snowman becomes human and he is transformed into a monster.

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On The Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man![]

  • This issue marks the first time that Spider-Man and the Human Torch agree to meet at the Statue of Liberty. This becomes a regular meeting place for the two heroes from this point on.

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