All-Winners Comics #12 (1944)

An American fighter plane en route to Basra is shot down by Nazi planes and an important document is recovered from the wreckage and altered by Nazi agents and then given to their operatives known as the Wisp to smuggle into Mecca. When the news reaches the United States the Human Torch and Toro get a call Major Brant who requests their audience. When they arrive at Army Intelligence, Brant explains that the document was a defense agreement between the United States and British authorities in Arabia. Brant suspects that the document might have been altered to turn the people of Mecca against the United States by a false threat of destroying the holy land. They accept the case and head to Basra to get further orders. Along the way spot a Nazi sub and blow it out of the water. There they learn that a Nazi spy known as the Wisp is said to be the one whom is attempting to smuggle the altered document into the country. The trouble is that military intelligence does not know the true identity of the Wisp. Exiting military intelligence, the two heroes stpo a suspicious looking British couple in the town market and watch as they hand a sheet of paper to a fig vendor. They decide to follow the vendor to see where he goes and follow him to a native dive where he meets up with the man who gave him the slip of paper. The fig vendor tells his allies that he has been followed. A fight breaks out and the English man fled the scene. They are told by the fig vendor to find the British man and the Torch and Toro follow after him. Arriving at the residence of the man and the woman, they tell the woman of the house that her husband is a Nazi spy. She feigns being devastated but is really in league with her husband and drops a gas capsule that knocks the two heroes out. The man has the Human Torch and Toro placed on a press that lowers every five minutes insuring the heroes will be crushed to death in 25 minutes while they go and deliver the doctored document. However, when left alone the Human Torch and Toro manage to break free. The Torch and Toro confront the man they believe is the Wisp and are shocked to find that he has nothing but a blank page and that he was nothing more but a decoy. Suspecting his wife, they rush in on the Khan's throne room and catch the woman before she can hand over the forged document. The Torch unmasks her revealing her to be a much younger woman and really the Wisp, and foiling her mission.