Marvel Mystery Comics #20 (1941)

The Human Torch and Toro fly straight into the heart of New York City Manhattan where an arsonist has struck. Together the pair of crime fighters work to minimize the damage and save lives. Toro riding on an ambulance towards some citizens in need of medical attention collides with a fire truck attempting to put out all the fires. After the Torch helps repair the ambulances' engine using his flames to quick weld it back together, Toro along with some citizens are transported to Trylon Hospital. The Torch visits Mayor Hawkins at his office. The mayor is convinced that politicians are behind the arson in order to remove him from his position but the Torch suggests Hawk Rivers an escape convict. As the Human Torch ensures the mayor that he'll put a stop to the arsonists regardless the mayor's makeshift fire alarm goes off alerting to more fires spreading in District 4 where the Trylon Hospital is located. The Torch takes off towards the hospital and spots planes demanding ten million dollars or they will burn down New York with Arson bombs. The Torch takes down their planes while Toro in the hospital discovers an arson bomb and shows it to the Human Torch. The Torch angered that they would place a bomb in a hospital where Toro is staying, burns a symbol of a rat into the foreheads of a couple of captured pilots. The mayor pulls up soon after and informs Torch of the blackmail demands to which the Torch hatches a plan with the mayor. Toro meanwhile thinks to himself that placing the bomb must have been an inside job and overhears a man speaking about the Torch. He follows the man into a warehouse and is taken captive. They bind him with asbestos strips and place his feet in plaster of paris before taking him aboard an airplane. The Torch meanwhile goes through with his plan and sets up the deal with the arsonists. The mayor goes to the location and hands over the case before alerting the arsonists that it was simply the Human Torch disguised as the mayor. The arsonists pass off the case to a plane and take off while the Torch contends with the other planes. Catching up to the main plane they warn the Torch not to follow or Toro and the city will face the consequences but the Torch doesn't listen resulting in more buildings begin caught on fire and Toro dropped out of the plane. The two work together to save civilians before refocusing on the arsonist. The Torch destroys the landing gear and forces them to land using landing gear constructed from his fire. The arsonist is revealed to be Hawk Rivers and he and his men are arrested.