Marvel Mystery Comics #65 (1945)

A young boy named is returning home from playing in Central Park with his dog when he comes across a necklace on the side walk that appears to be made of worthless glass beads. However, the boy is surrounded by a woman and two men who demand the boy give back the necklace. The boy refuses, wanting to give it to his mother as a present. When trying to buy the necklace from the boy fails they try to take it by force. However, the Human Torch and Toro, flying by the scene, break it up. Although the people hassling the child are suspicious to the Torch, he lets them go and escorts the boy home. Along the way they take the necklace to a local jewellery store to be appraised, confirming its seeming worthlessness. Meanwhile, the three people who accosted the boy return to the house where the necklace was found. Inside their boss has just killed an old man they have prisoner and is about to begin working on torturing his daughter. When they report that the Human Torch and Toro stopped them from reclaiming the necklace, their boss tells them to go back out and get the necklace from the boy and that he will deal with the Human Torch and Toro should they interfere again. When the Torch and Toro arrive at the house, they are greeted by the gangs leader and walk onto a trap floor and are beaten into submission. Placed in an asbestos lined sarcophagus, the gang leader orders his men to dump the two heroes into the nearby river. Using their flames, the Torch and Toro generate enough heat to cause the outside of the sarcophagus to melt, allowing them to escape. They round up the gang as they are threatening to hurt the boy's mother and turn them over to the police. When the girl in the mansion is freed, she breaks open the glass necklace revealing that it was hiding the famous Nile Sapphire. The girl gives the boy a thousand dollars in reward money for keeping the necklace safe.