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BURLY!

We’re not done with dissing the Human Torch’s rubbish Rogue’s Gallery yet!

What To Do With A Well-Dressed Burglar?

One of the eternal questions is (fleetingly) pondered…

Watching Paint Dry…

Continuing our look at Johnny Storm’s most pants opponents, today’s Forgotten Villain is the Painter of a Thousand Perils…

FRUMP!

A 1970-vintage snapshot of uncouth behaviour…

Dew What?

We take a look at one of the many, many crap villains of the Human Torch…

The Girl From WHERE?

Another for the heading of “Stuff you couldn’t get away with these days”…

“Good For The Goose”, an online episode of Munden’s Bar, by Martha Thomases, Valerie D’Orazio and Norm Breyfogle, highlights the dichotomy between the sexes’ visual presentation in comics – we see what might happen if superheroes dressed with the same apparent priority as superheroines…

GOT WOOD?

We boggle our minds at a TV studio’s 1962 official publicity still, as used on a Dell comic tie-in… Seriously, dozens of people must have looked at this photo – and all of them thought: “Nothing dodgy about that!”?

The Torch Said WHAT?

A Scandinavian translation of The Fantastic Four sees the Human Torch indulging in some very unheroic language…

It’s the Naughty Librarian… Junior…

Princess Tina‘s secret sales weapon – Jailbait!

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