Dates
- Cover date
- May 1963
- On sale
- February 12, 1963
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #108 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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Creators
Stories
- The Painter of a Thousand Perils! · 13 pages
A counterfeiter caught by the Human Torch finds magic paints and uses them to escape from prison and strike back at the Torch. The Torch realizes what is happening and uses the magic paints to fool the Painter and defeat him.
- The Heat's On · 2 pages
When a young boy builds a fan to help his family get through a heat wave it brings down the flying saucer that caused the heat.
- The Silent Giant · 5 pages
An old hermit becomes enraged that the nearby redwood tree will outlive him, but when he dies the tree transforms its friend into an immortal redwood too.
- The Iron Warrior · 5 pages
A knight of King Arthur's court resents the favor shown Merlin and so challenges him to a battle. Merlin's champion, a black knight, wins the competition. The envious knight still sneers at Merlin and claims he has no true magic powers, but Merlin makes a mystic pass and the empty suit of armor falls in pieces upon the ground.
Reprinted in
Sinister Tales (1964), Marvel Super-Heroes (1967), Secrets of the Unknown (1962), Climax Adventure Comic (1962), Uncanny Tales (1963), 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)