| Issue | #106 |
| Published | March 1963 |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Cover Price | 0.12 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Stan Lee |
| Notes | Distributed to newstands in December 1962. This issue includes 10 pages of paid advertisements. Distribution date from Joseph Marek's Marvel Comics Group history website. |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm] |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Jack Kirby |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Notes | Dick Ayers per Henry Kujawa (22 August 2007). Originally listed George Roussos. |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967) [0.25 page]; in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) |
| Characters | Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Acrobat [Carl Zante] (introduction); Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Miracle Man [Joshua Ayers] (flashback); Sub-Mariner [Namor McKenzie] (flashback); Doctor Doom [Victor von Doom] (flashback) |
| Synopsis | The Acrobat tricks the Human Torch into helping him rob a bank before double crossing him. The Torch chases and captures the thief with the help of the Fantastic Four. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Dick Ayers |
| Inks | Dick Ayers |
| Letters | John Duffy |
| Notes | The Acrobat next appears in issue #114 (November 1963). This is the first appearance of Johnny's obstacle training course and the last story in which Johnny worries about having a "secret identity". |
| Reprinted | in Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1966 series) #8 (May 1967); in Human Torch, The (Marvel, 1974 series) #6 (July 1975); in Essential Human Torch (Marvel, 2003 series) #1 (2003) [black & white]; in Marvel Masterworks: The Human Torch (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006); in Fantastici Quattro, I (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #8 (July 13, 1971) [as "La minaccia del terribile duo", Italian translation] |
| Characters | Josie |
| Synopsis | A tomboyish girl tries out cooking to appease her mother, but accidentally cooks a witch's brew, totally inappropriate for a fairy like her. |
| Genre | occult |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Text story with illustration. |
| Reprinted | from Marvel Tales (Marvel, 1949 series) #150 (September 1956) |
| Characters | Willie Wopper; Sam; Charlie |
| Synopsis | A teller of tall tales becomes the butt of some ribbing when he tries to tell his fellow painters that he has acquired some magic paints. When the cable of the scaffold they are working on breaks, the advertising poster the men were painting in comes to life and lowers them to the ground. The amazed painters feel they owe their lives to the magic paint, but the painter is smug in the knowledge that the scaffold never really fell but his paint allowed him to hypnotize his coworkers into believing it did and that they were saved by the poster. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Stan Lee |
| Pencils | Steve Ditko |
| Inks | Steve Ditko |
| Letters | Artie Simek |
| Reprinted | in Vault Of Evil (Marvel, 1973 series) #21 (September 1975) |
| Characters | Bentley |
| Synopsis | A space expedition is sent to a distant planet when it is suddenly covered with an artificial mist. The team finds gold and takes it, but are transformed into aliens like the inhabitants. |
| Genre | science fiction |
| Script | Stan Lee (plot); Larry Lieber (script) |
| Pencils | Paul Reinman |
| Inks | Paul Reinman |
| Letters | Ray Holloway |
| Notes | Script and letters credits by Barry Pearl. |