SUPER-HERO 005 UPDATE: THE HUMAN TORCH 1941
Though the big development for the Human Torch in 1941 is of course the fact that he gets a sidekick in the person of Toro, there are one or two other things worth noting about that year in his history: In Marvel Mystery Comics v1 016, the very non-La Guardia Mayor of NYC forms a new, anti-fifth column law enforcement department, calls it the Suicide Squad, and places the Human Torch in charge of it. The Suicide Squad does not…