Marvel reignites ‘Human Torch’
WHERE’S Johnny Storm? In the latest issue of Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four.
Issue No 600, out Wednesday, marks the first time since January the classic team created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby is back to its original roster: Mr Fantastic, the Thing, the Invisible Woman, and Johnny Storm, also known as the Human Torch, who was last seen perishing in what looked to be an all-out brawl against the minions of the Negative Zone.
Though it has been only 10 months since Marvel killed the Human Torch, death in the comics is rarely, if ever, a permanent condition.
How and why the Torch — who, along with the rest of the Fantastic Four launched Marvel’s silver age 50 years ago — has returned to the living is yet to be told. But Tom Brevoort, senior vice-president for publishing at Marvel, told the Associated Press the tale would be told in No 600 and future issues.
“There’s about 100 pages of story to tell just that,” Brevoort said of Storm’s return.
