"I've got a few things to say to you!" - Johnny Storm

OK, did anyone not know who the "mystery villian" really was?

...I didn't think so.

I think this was the first FF story since FF 23 to feature team members questioning Reed's role as leader. Pretty funny to see straight-laced Richards cook up a costume with a full-face mask (sporting a huge question mark motif) and then masquerade in said costume. What will he dream up next time this happens? Maybe he'll pull a "Wizard of Oz" and pretend to be the Watcher, explaining to the others why they should defer to Reed Richards's judgement.

The highlight was the sequence of TnT trapped in the speeding cars. They fell for the usual ploy just like in FF 9, ASM 14, and a recent Giant-Man story. Even the Wizard lured Johnny much the same way in the first story of Human Torch Masterworks Vol. 2 (ST 118) with a TV charity exhibition.

Better-than-usual cover on this one.

A weird illo of the flaming Torch with his "Johnny face", even down to the hair. I presume his face was starting to come back because his power was ebbing.

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"Now we're getting off focus." - the Elder Son of Storytime
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