The Marvels #1 (2021)

In the year 1939, reporter Phil Sheldon) speaks with his coworkers about moving to Europe to create a career covering the war. Phil later attends a science exhibition where he witnesses the unveiling of the Human Torch). Soon after, the Human Torch makes a reappearance on the streets of New York City. Phil and other spectators witness the man on fire but the others try to shrug off the incident as a trick. A while after the incident Phil's fiancé, Doris Jacquet) tells him that she saw an "eerie looking naked man)" confront the police. She says he was impervious to the police's bullets, the naked man threw a police car at the police before swimming away. Supernormal activities continued to occur in New York City. During one occurrence, Phil finds himself in a café listening to a friend complain about the Human Torch. However, the Human Torch was siting at the bar next to them overhearing everything, he reveals himself and walks out of the restaurant, a burned hole in the glass widow smoking in his wake.

Phil adopts the name "Marvels" to describe these superhuman beings. In late 1940, Phil and the people of New York witness Namor and the Human Torch fighting one another. Phil's reporter buddies cheer on the Human Torch, but policewoman Betty Dean) defends Namor's actions by saying he's only trying to get justice for his people. Phil and his reporters get the press credentials to follow Namor and the Torch to Torpey Chemical Works, where they find the two Marvels who appear to have sorted out their differences. The next day, Phil talks with Doris about postponing their wedding until the city becomes safer. Doris saddened by this gives back Phil's engagement ring and walks away.

A year later, the streets of New York are buzzing about the super-soldier ). In a movie theater, Phil finds that Doris is apparently on a date with ). The newsreel that the moviegoers watch shows the Sub-Mariner and Human Torch working together in the war effort. Soon after that Phil realizes the error of his ways and he and Doris start dating again. Later after Doris and Phil have been dating for a bit the two get word that Namor is attacking both the British and Italian forces in Spain.