Strange Tales 1951 #105 - 3.5 - $35.00

In prison, The Wizard becomes a model prisoner?just so he can become a trustee, work in the hospital, have access to chemicals...and break jail! The police soon have him surrounded in his house, but can't get in because of its defenses. He challenges the Torch to a battle to decide who is the better man. Against Sue's advice Johnny accepts the challenge, and he does pretty well until Sue shows up to "help" him. Thanks to her, he's caught, and both are almost killed in a bomb blast. But Johnny manages to free them both, get rid of the bomb, and corral the "superior intellect".

A scrawny man is given a magic candy bar that confers great strength, but he discovers that he already posesses more strength than he suspects.

A man has recurring dreams of solitary confinement and goes to sea to escape this fate. He is shipwrecked and left alone on a desert island, unaware that this is the solitude he was destined for.

A house appears to be magically dismantled by wisps of smoke, but it is only a girl playing with her dollhouse while her father smokes.

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• The Return of the Wizard! - This is the second appearance of The Wizard (who last appears in issue #102 (November 1962). This is the first time a "Human Torch" villain returned; Wizard would go on to a very long career, mostly with "The Frightful Four". He next appears in issue #110 (July 1963), where he teams with Paste-Pot Pete for the first time.
• Discovery - Text story with illustration.
• Man Alone! - Letters credit by Barry Pearl.
• The Supernatural! - Letters credit by Barry Pearl.