Following the birth of the super-hero group known as the Fantastic Four, the exploits of this team of adventurers -- particularly those of their youngest member the Human Torch -- became the center of the media's attention. Growing bitter from the loss of attention to himself, the Wizard, Bentley Wittman, became determined to prove himself superior to the Human Torch and began plotting to defeat the young hero. To this end, the Wizard made it appear that he was trapped while trying to drill a hole to the center of the Earth. When the Human Torch came to his rescue, Wittman invited the boy back to his futuristic home. There the Wizard incapacitated the Torch, and using various technological devices posed as the youth. While posing as the Torch the Wizard went on a crime spree which the Human Torch was blamed for. With the help of his sister the Invisible Girl, the Torch managed to free himself and recover the evidence clearing his name, ending in the Wizard's arrest and incarceration.
