Fantasy Masterpieces 1966 #11 - 4.0 - $13.00

Passing by a traveling circus, Torch spots a young kid on the ground with his body aflame. Landing, and a bit puzzled, he helps the young boy named Toro to be able to flame on at will and fly. Toro relates how he was involved in a train accident and lost both his parents after trying to save them in the fire. He fell unconscious, holding a piece of molten metal in his hand. He was adopted by two circus performers and has been with the circus since. Meanwhile, Samson, who lost a fight earlier to the Torch, is planning his revenge against the circus and especially the Torch.

Humanoid robots are banned, but their inventor keeps one in secret, and aliens try to turn it against humanity. It resists and they are forced to flee, but the robot?s inventor thinks that it disobeyed him by leaving hiding, not knowing that it saved humanity.

An avowed 5th Columnist uses a city celebration to lure Cap and Bucky to it, so that he can convince the good Captain to join his organization....or die!

On-sale date from 1967 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

• Origin of Toro - Possible Verpoorten or Trimpe inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Lieber with inks. Black Knight scene taken from interior story.
• - Inside from cover featuring scenes from interior stories, with gray tones added by Marie Severin. Credits include Stan Lee, Sol Brodsky, Roy Thomas, Flo Steinberg, and Stan Goldberg.
• - Advertisement for Tackle acne medication.
• - Advertisement for the National Youth Sales Club greeting card sales kit.
• Coin Collector Specials! - Advertisement for coins and coin albums.
• - Advertisement for the following products: comic books from Howard M. Rogofsky; songwriting information; typing for profit; how to write; 1001 things you can get free; Lavoptik eye wash; coins from Spruceland; how to gain a he-man voice; request for poems; coins from Centre Coin Co.; military emblems; dog tags; request for song ideas; comic collector's handbook; Fox mini-bikes; model rockets; Confederate currency; dentures; courses offered by the National Baking School.
• Hotel of Death - Original title of the story is "Hotel of Horror".
• America's Best TV Comics are here... Saturdays! - Advertisement for ABC's Saturday morning television lineup, including: The Fantastic Four; The Amazing Spider-Man; Casper, the Friendly Ghost; Journey to the Centre of the Earth; King Kong; George of the Jungle; The Beatles; American Bandstand.
• - Advertisement for the Marvel Super-Heroes Club.
• Scarce Lincoln Cents Sale - Advertisement for Lincoln pennies.
• - Advertisements for the following products: stamp collecting kit; thousands of beautiful stamps; Chinese stamps; US stamps; bonanza of stamps; U.S. miniature stamps; Americans on foreign stamps; rare stamps; topical stamps; 225 stamps; acne medication; Indian-Lincoln cents; giant Philippine stamp; U.S. commemorative stamps; poems wanted; motorized go-kart kit; Blair Products sales kit; coins from Serendipity Coins; surprise grab bag; booklet of magic tricks; comics from Grand Book Center; Krazy labels; bike decals.
• - Advertisement for the Grit Publishing sales kit.
• - Advertisement for membership in the Wholesale-Discount Buyers Club. Inside back cover.
• - Advertisement for courses offered by Famous Artists Schools. Back cover.