The Human Torch #13

This Fall 1943 issue of The Human Torch features a blazing Alex Schomburg cover that captures the wartime energy of the era at full intensity — the flaming Human Torch tears through a chaotic dock scene, scattering enemy figures in every direction while a distressed woman and panicked bystanders scramble to safety, with a sinister face peering from a circular frame in the upper right. Snakes writhe at the bottom of the composition, ropes and fire fill the middle ground, and a Japanese rising sun flag looms in the background, rooting the scene firmly in the WWII conflict that defined so many Marvel (then Timely) adventures of 1943. As a bonus, the cover proudly announces 20 pages of Sub-Mariner content inside, making this a genuinely packed package of Golden Age heroics.