Young Men #27

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CGC records 92 graded copies for Young Men #27 (1954). Population is the number recorded by this grading source, not the total print run or all surviving copies.

No One Can Stop the Hypnotist

The Human Torch and Toro rescue some kidnapped women but finds that they are in a trance, speaking of a seeing the face of death. When they question the kidnappers one of them mentions someone called the Hypnotist, who appears to them as the face of death. However, before they can explain anymore the two men suddenly drop dead. The Torch and Toro take the women to get medical help and then leave to inform Chief Wilson of what they have uncovered.

Meanwhile, the face of the Hypnotist appears before Betty Wilson as she sleeps on a couch. The Hypnotist then tries to hypnotize her but the Torch and Toro arrive and the face of death vanishes. In his office Chief Wilson is going over a case file on a man named Cory Doone when suddenly the lights go out and the face of the Hypnotist appears and orders the Chief to burn the Doone file. However the Torch and Toro enter the office just in time to stop him. When the chief snaps out of it they go over the file, and learn that Cory Doone has some connection to the Hypnotist and that he is mobilizing crime organizations for a massive attack on February 1st to take down the government. When looking at the photo of Doone, the Torch finds his face familiar.

The two heroes pay a visit to Doone's home to find that he has lions roaming the property. They flame on and frighten the beasts away and burn their ways through the mansion walls. Inside they find books of black magic and a sarcophagus belonging to Dara the high priest of evil and the Egyptian god of night. The face on the sarcophagus is the exact likeness of Doone. Spotting Doone, they follow after him into a trap door but find themselves caught in a room with the walls closing in. They flame on to try and burn free by the Hypnotist's face of death appears and orders them to fall asleep. Toro succumbs to the hypnosis, but the Torch resists long enough to burn themselves free.

Spotting Doone escaping in a helicopter, they follow after him as Doone goes from India, to Africa, Italy meeting with criminal organizations to prepare them for the big day. In Italy the Torch and Toro attack, but Doone manages to escape. Knowing where Doone might be heading, the pair fly back to New York where they meet with Chief Wilson and learn that Betty has been kidnapped. He warns the Chief about the Hypnotists plans and goes back to his house. There they find criminals waiting for them, but the Torch and Toro fight through and burst their way into Doone's hideout. They confront Doone who reveals he is the hypnotist and Dara, practitioner of the black arts. He reveals that he needs to drink the blood of young women to maintain his immortality, however the two heroes constant attacks on him have drained too much of his energies and the Hypnotist crumbles to dust before their very eyes, ending his threat.

Creative credits

Writers: Joe Gill, Don Rico

Interior art: Carl Burgos, John Romita, Bill Everett

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