*Action! Mystery! Adventure! Reprinting the tale that started it all and sparked 75 years of storytelling in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Celebrate Marvel's 75th Anniversary with the very first appearance of two titanic Marvel mainstays - android hero the original Human Torch, and aquatic anti-hero Namor, the Sub-Mariner! Reprinting material from Marvel Comics #1 (1939)! *Source: halloweencomicfest.com
"The Human Torch"
Professor Phineas Horton creates a synthetic man, or android, but unexplainably, it bursts into flames in the presence of oxygen. Initially inspiring fear in the public, they demand it be destroyed until the Torch shows his capacity for good. 16 pages.
First appearance of the Golden Age Human Torch.
"The Sub-Mariner"
Prince Namor, a half-breed born of a surface-dwelling father, Commander Leonard McKenzie, and royal Atlantean Princess Fen, is raised below the sea in ignorance of the world above until men blunder into his realm. Atlanteans have planned a War of Revenge against the surface world, and now Namor's curiosity is aroused about the World of Man. 12 pages.
Initially created by Bill Everett working for Funnies Inc., a production studio, for an unpublished comic, Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, this was published here instead.
First appearances of Namor, Fen, and Dorma.