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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published February 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Characters Human Torch [Jim Hammond]
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Maneely ?; Carl Burgos ?
Inks Joe Maneely ?; Carl Burgos ?
Notes Burgos art credits from Atlas Tales (http://www.atlastales.com/sI/4808), accessed 29 March 2010.
Reprinted in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

8 page Human Torch story "The Return of the Human Torch"

Characters Toro's uncle Julius (dies in this story); Chief Wilson
Genre superhero
Pencils Carl Burgos
Inks Carl Burgos
Notes Art credits from Atlas Tales (http://www.atlastales.com/sI/4808), accessed 29 March 2010; the original indexer credited the pencils and inks to Dick Ayers.
Reprinted from Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #14 (May 1968); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

2 page text story "Death Is Standing By"

Letters typeset

7 page Captain America story "Top Secret"

Genre superhero
Pencils John Romita
Inks John Romita
Reprinted in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #13 (March 1968); in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1

8 page Sub-Mariner story "The Shark People"

Characters Betty Dean
Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Reprinted in Giant-Size Defenders (Marvel, 1974 series) #2; in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series) #1