Marvel Mystery Comics (1939)
Published
Marvel Mystery Comics #9, Timely, July 1940
Hero against hero: the Sub-Mariner tears apart an elevated railway while the Human Torch flares up behind him, and the cover copy promises "this amazing battle of two super humans!" Bill Everett and Alex Schomburg are credited with the cover. It sells the fight itself rather than either hero, a very modern pitch for 1940, and fire against water remains a tidy piece of cover design.
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