The Torch #3 (Jan. 2010)
by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, Mike Carey, Patrick Berkenkotter

The Torch #3

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 2010

Publisher:
Written by: Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, Mike Carey
Art by: Patrick Berkenkotter

14 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Human Torch (Jim Hammond) (lead character)	N.A.	Heroes for Hire; Penance Council...  The All-Winners Squad; The Invaders; V-Battalion; West Coast Avengers		497
The Mad Thinker (Dr. Jose Santini) (lead character)		Triumvirate of Terror (leader)		108
A.I.M.	Scientism	[terrorist]		390
Toro (Thomas Raymond)		Kid Commandos; The All-Winners Squad...  The Invaders; The Young Allies		311
Eugene Toussaint	Scientism	A.I.M. [assigned to assist Mad Thinker in AIM project]		1
The Sub-Mariner (Namor) (9-panel cameo, pg. 22-23)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean; Dark X-Men...  human; Illuminati; The All-Winners Squad; The Avengers; The Cabal; The Defenders; The Invaders; The Order; X-Men		1,864
Atlanteans (6-panel cameo, pg. 22-23)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	[hidden race]		165
Porphyr (6-panel cameo, pg. 22-23)	Atlantean Greco-Roman classical religion	Atlantean		1
unnamed board members (2-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 1-2)	Scientism	A.I.M. [seen only as holograms to assign Mad Thinker's A.I.M. work]		3
Iron Man (Tony Stark) (mentioned, pg. 19, panel 1)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (mentioned, pg. 19, panel 1)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
The Cosmic Cube (mentioned, pg. 1)	pseudo-cosmic entity	A.I.M.		10
Phineas T. Horton (mentioned, pg. 7, 19)		[created android superhero Human Torch; Nova's father]		13
J. Robert Oppenheimer (mentioned, pg. 1)  Mad Thinker: "The gullible pawns at Advanced Idea Mechanics have provided me with a new facility. My	Jewish	[physicist]		58

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