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Synopsis
Gang leader "Scar" Tobin is visited by counterfeiter Wilhelm Van Vile, a painter notorious for his carelessness. Van Vile demonstrates his new talent, the ability to make paintings magically come to life and follow his telepathic commands. Van Vile tells Tobin's gang how he found the paints, left behind by aliens in an underground cavern. He intends to create an army of criminals and defeating The Human Torch will be a good test-case. Despite sending painting-images of Reed, Sue and Ben to kill him Johnny triumphs, destroys the alien paints and rounds up the gang.
Credits
- Script
- Marv Wolfman, Robert Bernstein, Hank Chapman
- Plot
- Stan Lee
- Pencils
- Ron Wilson, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia, John Tartaglione, Dick Ayers, Ernie Bache
- Letters
- Danny Crespi, Terry Szenics, Dick Ayers
- Editor
- Marv Wolfman
- Original editor
- Stan Lee
Characters
- Human Torch
- Invisible Girl
- Mister Fantastic
- Johnny Storm
- Ben Grimm
- Reed Richards
- The Thing
- Susan Storm Richards
- Wizard
- Bentley Wittman
- Zemu
- Jim Hammond
- Human Torch
- Thomas Raymond
- Toro
- The Un-Human
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