Story plot: Stan Lee
Script: Jerry Siegel
Art: Dick Ayers
Lettering: S. Rosen
Equipped with a device to pick up the Eel's body vibrations and thus locate him before he turns Marvel's faux-Riverdale into a smoking pit in the ground, Johnny emits a tracer fireball. That is, a fireball that will follow these vibrations and home in on him.
Er... right... How much is the Eel vibrating, exactly? Most people could put their hands on a wall and never feel the vibrations that they give off. So how exactly is a non-sensory ball of fire supposed to pick up the vibrations of an individual who could be over a mile away? Who knows?
Jerry sure doesn't...
Check out our coverage of Strange Tales #112 on our seventeenth episode: No Funny Title Springs To Mind
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