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Blackout for Doom
A special meeting of air raid wardens is called in New York City, and the Human Torch and Toro sit in. They learn that a mock air raid is being done to test out the effectiveness of air raid procedures using specially made dud ammunition created by the local weapons manufacturers. With the meeting ended, the Human Torch and Toro decide to lend a hand by offering their aid to the Ajax Company, one of the many arms dealers that are making dud weapons for the test.
At the Ajax Company the president meets with one of his employees to discuss the matter of the dud weapons and tells him that this is to be a secret of national security. Unknown to the president, the employee is really a Nazi spy who confers with his fellow spies within the weapons plant and they begin conspiring to replace the dud ammunition with live rounds instead.
The Human Torch and Toro are working on the job undercover, and they soon notice that some of the workers are replacing the boxes of duds with boxes of live rounds. When the Torch goes into action his flames threaten to set off the live rounds, forcing him to flame off to put out the fires he started. This leaves his guards down long enough or the spies to knock the Torch out. Toro joins the fight and comes to the Torch's rescue but the leader of the spies escapes.
The Torch chases after him and flies down a tunnel rigged to put out his flames. Knocked out with chloroform, the Torch is held hostage by the leader of the spies forcing Toro to stand down. Toro is then knocked out and both are stuffed into a crate and loaded into a truck carrying the explosives so that if they attempt to use their flames they will be blown up.
Realizing this, the Torch and Toro disassemble the crate they are in and find that it is on the floor of the flatbed and use their flame powers to melt out the bottom and escape the truck. They realize that they have been taken close to the Canadian boarder and that they are miles away from New York. They stop up the spies and when two of them attempt to toss a live bomb at the heroes they fly out of its path, causing it to blow up the Nazi leader.
Racing against time, The Torch and Toro find that all phones in the surrounding areas have been knocked out and rush to the next town where they call the military only to learn that the bombers have been launched on their test run. Flying to New York City as fast as they can, they write a message in flames in the sky warning the pilots that they are carrying live rounds, ending the test run before tragedy can strike.
Creative credits
Writers: N/A, N/A, N/A, N/A
Interior art: Harry Sahle, Harry Sahle, Carl Pfeufer
Color: N/A, N/A, N/A
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