STRANGE TALES #124 (1964)

Not a particularly noteworthy comic, but it has personal importance to me. After school, when I was in 8th Grade, I used to go to a used bookstore that a few boxes of smelly, old comics. One day I went there and found a bunch of kinda valuable ones. This was one of them.

Anyway, on the Human Torch side, as you can see from the cover, he takes on Paste-Pot Pete. Strangely, though, he’s billed as a “New Menace.”

He’s not.

He’s neither new nor, frankly, a menace.

He is, however, improved…

But Thing and Torch defeat him fairly easily.

Then in the back half of the book there’s a non-memorable Strange story.

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