All throughout December, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically "overturned" by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An' Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com if you have any suggestions for future editions of this feature.
Today we look at the connection between the Human Torch and the Vision...
Enjoy!
For a few years, there were a couple of hints that the Vision might have some connection to the Human Torch.
From the "ghost" of the Human Torch recognizing the Vision in Giant Size Avengers #3...
to a Sentinel making an interesting comment about the Vision in Avengers #102...
Finally, in Avengers #133-135, it is revealed that the Vision's body was that of the original Human Torch!
Go to the next page when this retcon is retconned and then re-retconned...
During John Byrne's time on Avengers West Coast, though, this is called into doubt and finally in #50, they debunk this theory...
The Torch is revived and he becomes a superhero again.
Years later, in Avengers Forever, Kurt Busiek explains it all thusly...
