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'''Summary:''' A scientist has created a [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 synthetic man]], but it ignites uncontrollably in the presence of oxygen. One day, it escapes!
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'''Summary:''' A scientist has created a [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 synthetic man]], but it ignites uncontrollably in the presence of oxygen. One day, it escapes!
escapes... and thus the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is born!
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'''Summary:''' A scientist has created a [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 synthetic man]], but it ignites uncontrollably in the presence of oxygen. One day, it escapes!
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'''Summary:''' A scientist has created a [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 synthetic man]], but it ignites uncontrollably in the presence of oxygen. One day, it escapes!
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* PowerIncontinence: The Torch starts with absolutely no control over his fire ability.
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* BlankSlate: When he wakes the Torch knows nothing, and reacts to most things with curiosity or childlike joy, including the bells of fire trucks.
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* BlankSlate: When he wakes the Torch knows nothing, and reacts to most things with curiosity or childlike joy, including the bells of fire trucks.trucks coming to extinguish him.
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* FunetikAksent: The mobsters' dialogue is written phonetically.
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* BuriedAlive: The Torch was buried in concrete for a significant (but unspecific) time.
* FunetikAksent: The mobsters' dialogue is written phonetically. "Joisey"-style.
* FunetikAksent: The mobsters' dialogue is written phonetically. "Joisey"-style.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The comic ends with the Torch soaring off (like a comet) across the city and toward the moon.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The comic ends with the Torch soaring off (like ("like a comet) comet") across the city and toward the moon.
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* TurnedOnTheirMasters: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the Torch at the end rejects and [[AccidentalMurder kills]] his creator, but doesn't reject humanity as a whole.
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* TurnedOnTheirMasters: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the Torch at the end rejects and [[AccidentalMurder kills]] kills]][[note]] according to the next issue; in this one it looks like he just left[[/note]] his creator, but doesn't reject humanity as a whole.
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* SuperheroOriginStory: This is the Torch's origin issue. ArtificialHuman flavor.
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* SuperheroOriginStory: SuperheroOrigin: This is the Torch's origin issue. ArtificialHuman flavor.
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* BrokenPedestal: When the Torch realizes that even Horton wants to use him, he rejects him and burns down his house as well on his way out.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sardo is killed by the same Torch he wanted to use as a weapon setting ''his'' house on fire.
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* ElementalArmor: The Torch's fiery aura is so hot that anything getting close to him melts, evaporates, or fizzles.
* FingerSnapLighter: The Torch demonstrates his control for Horton by lighting his cigar.
* {{Fireballs}}: He learns that he can fling fire around when he gets control of his flame.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Doubly so: Sardo is killed by the same Torch he wanted to use as a weapon setting ''his'' house onfire.fire, and even more directly by the canister of sulphuric acid he tried to throw at the Torch blowing up between them.
* FingerSnapLighter: The Torch demonstrates his control for Horton by lighting his cigar.
* {{Fireballs}}: He learns that he can fling fire around when he gets control of his flame.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Doubly so: Sardo is killed by the same Torch he wanted to use as a weapon setting ''his'' house on
* IJustWantToBeFree: The Torch vows that he will be free and no one will use him again.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Torch is shot while un-flamed, but the bullet still melts against his skin.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Torch is shot while un-flamed, but the bullet still melts against his skin.
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* NoSell: The firefighters blast the Torch with a fire hose of cold water, to which he just giggles and says it tickles.
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* NoSell: NoSell:
** The firefighters blast the Torch with a fire hose of cold water, to which he just giggles and says ittickles. tickles.
** Sard is protected by a "super-steel" door that is supposed to protect him even from the Torch, but the Torch simply walks through it "without exertion" (according to the narration).
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The comic ends with the Torch soaring off (like a comet) across the city and toward the moon.
* OutOfTheInferno: The Torch calmly walks out of Sardo's burning mansion holding his insulated nitrogen tank.
** The firefighters blast the Torch with a fire hose of cold water, to which he just giggles and says it
** Sard is protected by a "super-steel" door that is supposed to protect him even from the Torch, but the Torch simply walks through it "without exertion" (according to the narration).
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: The comic ends with the Torch soaring off (like a comet) across the city and toward the moon.
* OutOfTheInferno: The Torch calmly walks out of Sardo's burning mansion holding his insulated nitrogen tank.
* PowerNullifier: Sort of downplayed; it's nothing special, but nitrogen gas puts out the Torch's flame.
* SociopathicHero: The Torch absolutely understands the concept of law and breaking the law - he turns on the mobsters when he recognizes that they are criminals - but seems to lack actual empathy. He boils some mooks alive and laughs gleefully as he wrecks a burning lab.
* SuperheroOriginStory: This is the Torch's origin issue. ArtificialHuman flavor.
* SuperSpeed: He outruns a car.
* SuperheroOriginStory: This is the Torch's origin issue. ArtificialHuman flavor.
* SuperSpeed: He outruns a car.
* VillainsWantMercy: Sardo tries to bribe the Torch into letting him live by offering him nitrogen (which can control his flames).
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-->'''The Torch''': That rat burned -- all right! And those fellows in the pool won't come up for air -- Now for -- -- SARDO!!
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-->'''The Torch''': That rat burned -- all right! And those fellows in the pool won't come up for air -- Now for -- -- SARDO!!
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sardo is killed by the same Torch he wanted to use as a weapon setting ''his'' house on fire.
* InASingleBound: The Torch surprises even himself when he finds he can leap not only out of the burning building but clear above the city. Apparently, [[TechnoBabble the reason is because the blue and red flames combined to make him lighter than air]].
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Sardo's plan with the Torch is to extract "fire insurance" from businesses.
* SkilledButNaive: He is an incredibly powerful fiery force, but his lack of experience with the world lets him be used by criminals.
* SkilledButNaive: He is an incredibly powerful fiery force, but his lack of experience with the world lets him be used by criminals.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Sardo's plan with the Torch is to extract "fire insurance" from businesses.
businesses. He is, however, far less subtle than the name of the trope.
* SkilledButNaive: He is an incredibly powerful fiery force, but his lack of experience with the world lets him be used by criminals. He thinks, for instance, that Sardo is helping him when he loads him up in a glass tube to use him as a weapon.
* SkilledButNaive: He is an incredibly powerful fiery force, but his lack of experience with the world lets him be used by criminals. He thinks, for instance, that Sardo is helping him when he loads him up in a glass tube to use him as a weapon.
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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: The Torch (and writing) seems perfectly blase about establishing that the lesser bad guys died horribly.
-->'''The Torch''': That rat burned -- all right! And those fellows in the pool won't come up for air -- Now for -- -- SARDO!!
-->'''The Torch''': That rat burned -- all right! And those fellows in the pool won't come up for air -- Now for -- -- SARDO!!
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* ProtectionRacket: Sardo's plan with the Torch is to extract "fire insurance" from businesses.
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* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Sardo's plan with the Torch is to extract "fire insurance" from businesses.
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* TheMafia: Sardo and his gang are classic mobsters.
* ProtectionRacket: Sardo's plan with the Torch is to extract "fire insurance" from businesses.
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* ReluctantMonster: Immediately after waking, the Torch can't control his fire, and wonders forlornly why everything he touches must turn to flame.
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* ReluctantMonster: Immediately after waking, the Torch can't control his fire, and wonders forlornly why everything he touches must turn to flame. While he's running around setting the city and citizens ablaze.
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-->'''Red''': Dat's funny -- de grass 'round de pool is boinin', Sardo!
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* SkilledButNaive: He is an incredibly powerful fiery force, but his lack of experience with the world lets him be used by criminals.
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A scientist has created a [[ComicBook/HumanTorch1939 synthetic man]], but it ignites uncontrollably in the presence of oxygen. One day, it escapes!
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!!This issue provides examples of:
* AsYouKnow: The first panels.
-->'''Horton''': As you all know, I've been working on a synthetic man -- an exact replica of a human being!!
* BlankSlate: When he wakes the Torch knows nothing, and reacts to most things with curiosity or childlike joy, including the bells of fire trucks.
* FunetikAksent: The mobsters' dialogue is written phonetically.
* HumanPopsicle: The Torch's creator, once he discovers his defect that sets him ablaze, seals him inside a block of concrete with no air and buries him underground until he can find a way to fix his defect. Some time after, an air shaft and crack forms in the concrete, giving the torch just enough oxygen to trigger his fire abilities and break free. The amount of time that passes isn't specified, but it's long enough for "everyone" to forget about the spectacle of the flaming man.
* ManOnFire: On the Torch's initial rampage, there is a civilian on fire.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When the Torch's tomb explodes, Horton wonders if he was destroyed, and declares he must have been, because "No one could have survived that!"
* NoSell: The firefighters blast the Torch with a fire hose of cold water, to which he just giggles and says it tickles.
* PlayingWithFire: The Torch's primary abilities are that he's on fire.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: The scientists who come to measure the Torch's heat output say the readings are off the scale, then immediately have their pyrometers melt.
* ReluctantMonster: Immediately after waking, the Torch can't control his fire, and wonders forlornly why everything he touches must turn to flame.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Torch is a "synthetic human", or an android, but is indistinguishable from the humans around him, except for his powers.
* TurnedOnTheirMasters: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the Torch at the end rejects and [[AccidentalMurder kills]] his creator, but doesn't reject humanity as a whole.
* WreathedInFlames: The Torch is constantly enveloped in flames when he's in contact with oxygen, at first. Later he can turn it on and off.
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!!This issue provides examples of:
* AsYouKnow: The first panels.
-->'''Horton''': As you all know, I've been working on a synthetic man -- an exact replica of a human being!!
* BlankSlate: When he wakes the Torch knows nothing, and reacts to most things with curiosity or childlike joy, including the bells of fire trucks.
* FunetikAksent: The mobsters' dialogue is written phonetically.
* HumanPopsicle: The Torch's creator, once he discovers his defect that sets him ablaze, seals him inside a block of concrete with no air and buries him underground until he can find a way to fix his defect. Some time after, an air shaft and crack forms in the concrete, giving the torch just enough oxygen to trigger his fire abilities and break free. The amount of time that passes isn't specified, but it's long enough for "everyone" to forget about the spectacle of the flaming man.
* ManOnFire: On the Torch's initial rampage, there is a civilian on fire.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When the Torch's tomb explodes, Horton wonders if he was destroyed, and declares he must have been, because "No one could have survived that!"
* NoSell: The firefighters blast the Torch with a fire hose of cold water, to which he just giggles and says it tickles.
* PlayingWithFire: The Torch's primary abilities are that he's on fire.
* ReadingsAreOffTheScale: The scientists who come to measure the Torch's heat output say the readings are off the scale, then immediately have their pyrometers melt.
* ReluctantMonster: Immediately after waking, the Torch can't control his fire, and wonders forlornly why everything he touches must turn to flame.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: The Torch is a "synthetic human", or an android, but is indistinguishable from the humans around him, except for his powers.
* TurnedOnTheirMasters: {{Downplayed|Trope}}; the Torch at the end rejects and [[AccidentalMurder kills]] his creator, but doesn't reject humanity as a whole.
* WreathedInFlames: The Torch is constantly enveloped in flames when he's in contact with oxygen, at first. Later he can turn it on and off.
