With issue #101, the monster anthology comic Strange Tales starts running Human Torch solo stories. In the grand tradition of never leaving money on the table, Stan Lee knew the Fantastic Four was a hit comic, so he tried to expand the title.
In his first adventure, he stops a guy called Destroyer from killing people at Coney Island amusement park. Really the action isn’t important.
What matters here is that the story starts with siblings Johnny and Susan Storm moving into a house in upstate New York. But in reality, this book is a Human Torch solo book.
He’s got a secret identity now. And, a specially designed bedroom. And it’s pretty fascinating. Johnny has detailed undersea maps, which me must assume means he is tracking Namor. And he researches pyrotechnics and star charts and “experiments with chemicals”–and yet he never seems very brainy!
There’s nothing really wrong with this story. It’s short, and there’s not much to it.