Marvel Masterworks, Volume 088: Golden Age Human Torch Volume 2 [#5B-8]

by Carl Burgos, Hank Chapman (Author), Bill Everett (Author), Art Gates (Author), Mickey Spillane (Author)

Series:Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Human Torch (2), Human Torch (Golden Age 2)

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Marvel presents more Golden Age goodness, reprinting HUMAN TORCH #5b-8 from 1941-42. (Yes, folks, odd numbering was not solely the province of modern comic books: the Torch's solo book has two #5s!)

This hardcover collection remasters and restores these early adventures featuring two titanic and epic-length battles between the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner. First, amidst a raging World War, Sub-Mariner declares all-out war on the surface world attacking Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini before he sets his sights on New York City! Only the Human Torch, Toro, Kazar, the Patriot and the Angel stand in his way of total world conquest.

Then the most fantastic plot in the history of modern warfare plunges the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner into an epic show more struggle against each other when the villainous Python hypnotizes the Torch into aiding Hitler's cause.

Plus, Torch and Toro face off against the Secret Arsenal, the Legion of Despair and Agent X. Also featuring "Tubby & Tack," "Swoopy the Fearless," stories by pulp legend Mickey Spillane, and Basil Wolverton's "Peculiar People."

Collecting HUMAN TORCH COMICS #5b-8.

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Carl Burgos

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Hank Chapman

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Bill Everett

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Art Gates

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Mickey Spillane

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Mickey Spillane was born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, New York on March 9, 1918. He briefly attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas, but dropped out, moved back to New York, and began his writing career in the mid-1930s. His first stories were published mostly in comic books and pulp magazines. He created Mike Danger, a private show more detective, and also wrote for Captain America, Captain Marvel, and The Human Torch. During World War II, he worked as a flying instructor for the U.S. Army Air Force. His first novel, I, the Jury, featured Mike Hammer and was published in 1947. His other novels include Vengeance Is Mine; My Gun Is Quick; The Big Kill; Kiss Me, Deadly; The Long Wait; and The Deep. Between 1952 and 1961 Spillane stopped writing full-length novels after converting to a Jehovah's Witness. In 1962, he brought Hammer back with The Girl Hunters, which was followed by Day of the Guns, The Death Dealers, The Twisted Thing, and Body Lovers. He also wrote two children's books, The Day the Sea Rolled Back, which won a prize from the Junior Literary Guild, and The Ship That Never Was. In 1995, he received the Grand Master award from the Mystery Writers of America. In the mid-1990s, he returned to comic books, by co-creating a futuristic Mike Danger. He died following a long illness on July 17, 2006 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less