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Spider - Manand theFantastic Four’sHuman Torchhave been both expectant friends and braggart - prison term competitor . Ever since Spidey crashed the Baxter Building inThe Amazing Spider - Man # 1and seek to join the Fantastic Four , Johnny Storm has had a boeuf with the web spinner – oft challenging Spider - Man to superpowered engagement across the New York skyline .
Nevertheless , the two adolescent developed a genuine regard for each other – which finally became a hefty friendly relationship that ’s die hard over the years . However , that bail was sternly tested ahead of time in their superhero career when one of their friendly disagreements accidentally cease with Spider - Man chopping off a very of import part of the Human Torch ’s shape .
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The shocking story took place in the first issue of theSpider - adult male / Human Torch : I ’m With Stupidminiseries , which told a story during Peter Parker and Johnny Storm ’s gamy school years . While Peter was still struggling to make money by taking photograph of himself and selling them to theDaily Bugle , Johnny Storm began occupy about his public image .
believe he needed good photos of himself in the newspaper – and not realizing that nerdy Peter Parker was really Spider - Man – Johnny offered to lease Peter as his personal lensman . Annoyed about having to bring for such a line-shooter , but necessitate the money , Peter gibe .
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unluckily , Johnny arrogantly decided to stage something full-grown for Peter to snap – and choose to pick a combat with theFantastic Four ’s arch bane Doctor Doom . Flying to the Latverian embassy , the Human Torch did n’t even make it to the front threshold before Doom ’s security subthermic shank froze the bloody sub in a blockage of ice rink . As Doctor Doom crow over his helpless enemy , Spider - Man swing in to save the day .
Spidey ’s scheme to rescue the Human Torch was particularly clever . Realizing he was no match for Doctor Doom – but recalling that Doom had once tried to levy him – Spider - Man knelt before the evil monarch and claimed he was only at the embassy to take Doom up on his offering . Suspicious , Doom ordered Spider - Man to turn out his loyalty with an act that would prove he was on Doom ’s side . take the opening , Spidey asked if Doom would pardon him for the crime of murder if he kill the Human Torch while at the embassy .
Intrigued – and knowing of Spider - Man and the Human Torch ’s fabled rivalry – Doom agreed to permit Spidey take out the Human Torch . Laughing wickedly , Spider - Man seize the Torch ’s icy prison – and immediately swung away as Doom cursed his fly form . A few city block away , Spidey create some “ vane ice picks ” ( yes , really ) and got to work chipping the Torch out of the ice . Unfortunately , the Torch began squirming and Spider - Man ended up break up off something very valuable .
What Spider-Man Chopped Off the Torch
Readers next saw the Human Torch streaking to the Baxter Building and yawp for Reed Richards to re - attach something important he was carry in an pipe organ transplant container . AsMr . Fantasticand the Thing approached the hysterical stripling , Johnny enter the container to divulge that Spider - Man had unintentionally chopped off … his hair .
That ’s right – somehow Spider - Man had accidentally hacked off Johnny Storm ’s entire fountainhead of hair with his internet ice picks . As Johnny wailed about what this would do to his public figure of speech , Reed assured him he could perform an emergency hair transplant as long as the follicle were intact – only for the matter to start antic around with Johnny ’s pilus and shatter it into a million piece .
luckily for Johnny , Reed quickly fabricate a “ super - follicle restorer”that regrew Johnny ’s entire head of hair back in a few days . regrettably for the Torch , Spidey had already gleefully snapped a photo of Johnny ’s denuded head and sell his entire roll of film to theDaily Bugle , promising his publisherJ. Jonah Jamesonthat it contained “ the single most negative photo of a teenage superintendent - hero … ever ! ” The joke turned out to be on both of the paladin , however , when the pic Jameson chose to run was one of Spider - Man kneel in front of Doctor Doom , apparently join the monarch in villainy .
Silly as the termination may seem , it does raise some significant questions ( namely why did n’t Reed Richards mass - produce his “ super - follicle preserver ” and become a multi - trillionaire by sell it to bald men everywhere ? perchance that ’s therealreasonCharles Xavier want the ex - valet to fight the Fantastic Four ) . In either case , the Torch and Spidey did eventually make up andput the embarrassing incident behind them – although it ’s a certain bet that Peter made a few copies of his infamous “ barefaced Johnny ” photograph and has been snickering about it in secret . Spider - Manmight be the original strong - hazard grinder , but at least he ’s managed to keep all of his hair since the 1960s .
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