Marvel Mystery Comics #19
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Hag," the original Marvel heroes Torch and Toro face a cunning criminal mastermind who exploits a wartime blackout to manipulate the stock market and target their powers. Written and drawn by Carl Burgos, this 1941 tale sees the duo battling a foe who uses chemical-treated clothing and flame-suppressing gas—forcing Torch to seek a desperate medical solution for Toro’s weakened fire. The cover by Alex Schomburg captures the tension of the moment, with the Hag’s shadowy menace looming over the city.
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The Hag's gang uses a blackout to enter the stock exchange to fake a second market crash so that she can buy up stock cheap. They use clothes treated with chemicals to deal with the Torch and a gas that makes Torch's and Toro's flames go out. Toro breaks his arm in the fall so Torch takes him to the hospital and the doctor tells him that Toro needs a "flame transfusion." After Toro's flame has been strengthened, the doctor tells Torch that Toro's flame will never be as strong as his. Torch and Toro corner the Hag, and when she tries to escape them with detonating gas, the explosion kills her.
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