Johnny Storm learns about mesothelioma
This is from STRANGE TALES# 110, October 1962. The Human Torch got his own strip for awhile, Lee remembering how popular the original character was back in the 1940s. But frankly, it wasn't very good. Scripters like Robert Bernstein and Larry Lieber were working in a Silver DC sort of frame of mind, and Dick Ayer was a good inker but his pencils just didn't have the frenetic energy or whacky inventiveness of Jack Kirby. Eventually, the Thing was brought in as a co-star but the strip still limped along and was scrapped to make room for NICK FURY, AGENT OF SHIELD.
Be that as it may, here's a look from the first story. The casual extensive use of asbestos in the furnishings might make a doctor sit up and frown.
It also strikes me that this is way too serious a bedroom for a sixteen year old boy. I think that the "hidden alcove" is where Johnny kept his record player and albums, comics and issues of PLAYBOY so that Sue couldn't throw them away while he was out fighting the Plantman.
Be that as it may, here's a look from the first story. The casual extensive use of asbestos in the furnishings might make a doctor sit up and frown.
It also strikes me that this is way too serious a bedroom for a sixteen year old boy. I think that the "hidden alcove" is where Johnny kept his record player and albums, comics and issues of PLAYBOY so that Sue couldn't throw them away while he was out fighting the Plantman.