"I... I challenged the Human Torch and I lost! I am beaten!"
We get the introduction of long-running FF baddie the Wizard here but... he's rubbish. This is a genius, wealthy inventor, home full of his own futuristic inventions, chess champion, escape artist, celebrity... yet he can't even work out the Torch's blatantly obvious secret identity, what with his sister Sue openly being the Invisible Girl...?
The opening immediately dates this, with cinema newsreel footage(!) recounting the events of last issue. But we then devolve into the Wizard's rather dull attempt to frame the Torch (why?) in a typically lacklustre script from Larry "Nepotism" Lieber. I did chuckle, though, at the fake Torch writing "Down with law and order" in the sky.
But... well, not much else to say about this throwaway bit of rubbish which, despite all else, at least introduces a baddie with staying power. And (not for the first time) featuring a disturbing quantity of asbestos.
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