Line #30 ComicBook/HumanTorch1939


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2	[[caption-width-right:999:The reason you came, and [[ComicBook/SubMariner some weird fish-guy]] is here, too.]]
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4	The Human Torch's first self-titled comic, which originally began life as the OldShame, Red Raven Comics, but was quickly retooled into something more marketable. The first issue (titled #2) features stories involving the titular Torch, Namor, the Fiery Mask, Mantor the Magician, the Golden Age Falcon, and Microman ([[NonIndicativeName who was just a little boy who never called himself that]]). This new version of the magazine was a success, and continued until 1954.
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6	!!Tropes included in Human Torch and its short-lived predecessor, Red Raven Comics:
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8	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Comes up in Jimmy Everett's story, titled "A Wish Come True". The wish in question was to become tiny, as Jimmy thought it'd be a fun time. It wasn't.
9	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The Torch is briefly brainwashed by Namor with some drugged food and sent to attack the surface world.
10	* TheButlerDidIt: Mantor's first foes are literally a malicious butler and gardener, trying to kill a young heiress for her family's fortune.
11	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
12	** Even though his first story assured that he would appear again in the next issue, Jimmy Everett never showed up again.
13	** Every single character from Red Raven Comics was absent from the new version. Even Mercury was repurposed as "Hurricane" when he next appeared in Captain America Comics.
14	* {{Crossover}}: Famously had one with ''ComicBook/MarvelMysteryComics'' in its fifth issue (the one where the Human Torch battles Namor). There were also many stories in the second issue that ended with characters or narration telling the reader "Go buy Marvel (Mystery) Comics!"
15	* FanNickname: The duplicate fifth issue is often labeled by re-sellers and online as "Human Torch 5a".
16	* HilariousInHindsight: Jimmy Everett muses that he'd like to be as small as an ant, and gets his wish after drinking a scientist's shrinking serum. [[ComicBook/AntMan Hmm...]]
17	* KidSidekick: Human Torch #2 featured the debut of Toro, the [[HaveAGayOldTime Flaming Kid]]!
18	* LadyMacbeth: Rathia serves this role for Namor in the second issue 5, convincing him he should TakeOverTheWorld.
19	* NamesTheSame:
20	** This Falcon has no relation to any future characters in Marvel with that name.
21	** Likewise, the Golden Age Ka-Zar should not be confused with the later Ka-Zar of the modern age.
22	** The Tubby from ''Tubby an' Tack'' is not the same Tubby from ''ComicBook/YoungAllies''.
23	** For some reason, this series had two issues labeled 5.
24	* OldShame: Marvel has a very low opinion of Red Raven Comics #1, and any retrospective you'll find about it labels as an unmitigated disaster that crashed and burned and they couldn't wait to get away from it.
25	* ScoobyDooHoax: Mantor is attacked by two ghosts in a mansion, who turn out to be the mansion's butler and its gardener in disguise.
26	* ShoutOut: Often did these to its sister publication, Marvel Mystery Comics. A train in Toro's debut story is even called the "Marvel Special".
27	* SpotlightStealingSquad: The Human Torch basically usurped this magazine away from Red Raven because Red Raven Comics sold ''that'' badly.
28	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Mantor was the ''third'' attempt by Timely Comics to create a Mandrake-like hero of their own, after ''Daring Mystery Comics''' Monako and Red Raven Comics' Magar.
29	* ThoseWackyNazis: A recurring foe of any wartime comic, including this one.
30	* {{Tuckerization}}: The Human Torch and Namor's creators were respectively Carl Burgos and Bill Everett. Human Torch #2 introduces characters named Carl Burg''ess'' and Jimmy Everett (The Falcon and Microman, respectively).

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