Dates
- Cover date
- February 1963
- On sale
- November 8, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #105 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
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Stories
- The Return of the Wizard! · 13 pages
In prison, The Wizard becomes a model prisoner—just so he can become a trustee, work in the hospital, have access to chemicals...and break jail! The police soon have him surrounded in his house, but can't get in because of its defenses. He challenges the Torch to a battle to decide who is the better man. Against Sue's advice Johnny accepts the challenge, and he does pretty well until Sue shows up to "help" him. Thanks to her, he's caught, and both are almost killed in a bomb blast. But Johnny manages to free them both, get rid of the bomb, and corral the "superior intellect".
- Discovery · 2 pages
A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.
- Man Alone! · 5 pages
A man has recurring dreams of solitary confinement and goes to sea to escape this fate. He is shipwrecked and left alone on a desert island, unaware that this is the solitude he was destined for.
- The Supernatural! · 5 pages
A house appears to be magically dismantled by wisps of smoke, but it is only a girl playing with her dollhouse while her father smokes.
Reprinted in
Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Strange Tales (1963), Creepy Worlds (1962), Marvel Tales (1966), The Human Torch (1974), Essential Human Torch (2003), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2006), Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (2014), The Human Torch & The Thing: Strange Tales - The Complete Collection (2018), Marvel Masters of Suspense: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko Omnibus (2019)