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Human Torch
Johnny Storm
A Fantastic Four founder who plasma-sheathes his body, flies and controls ambient flame, with an upper limit written as the nova burst.
First appearance: Fantastic Four #1 (1961), Marvel Comics
Powers
Key issues
Milestone appearances — first appearance, death, return, team change. These are the issues the collector market actually prices.
- First appearance · 1961
Fantastic Four #1 Marvel Comics
Founding member of the Fantastic Four.
Runs
Recorded as ranges rather than one row per issue — the question a reader actually asks, without claiming a completeness we cannot verify.
| Series | Issues | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Fantastic Four | 1- | lead |
On screen
Canonical productions only. Parody and fan work is classified and excluded — Wikidata makes no such distinction, so without it these lists fill with material that is not canon.
| Performer | Production | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Jay Underwood | The Fantastic Four | 1994 |
Has appeared with
Every character who has shared a production with this one. Wikis are organised by character, not by encounter, so this question is close to unanswerable elsewhere — it exists here only because co-occurrence is recorded at the moment an appearance is.
| Character | Where | Shared |
|---|---|---|
| Pyro | Deadpool & Wolverine | 1 |
| Sabretooth | Deadpool & Wolverine | 1 |
The feat ledger
The plasma sheath that makes him a fire user also provides his propulsion
Released the nova burst, his maximum output, which exhausts his flame entirely afterwards
Ignites his whole body and controls the flame's shape at range
Flies while ablaze, propelled by his own controlled flame
The nova flame, a total release stated to approach solar temperature
Absorbs surrounding fire rather than being harmed by it
Nova output is limited by his own supply of fuel and oxygen, the standing constraint
Shapes flame into solid-seeming constructs and barriers
Continuities
Claims on this page are tagged by canon. Blending them is the most common error in both wikis and AI answers.
- Earth-616 — The main Marvel Comics continuity
Last updated 2026-09-06 · machine-readable version