Why Does Marvel Keep Remaking Stories Fans Already Love?

Gizmodo’s talking about a new Marvel project artist Ross is drawing, with the Golden Age Human Torch prominently featured: Called Marvel Dimensions, it starts off telling the origins of iconic characters, one of which io9 can exclusively reveal. Below, you can see his take on the birth of the Human Torch—specifically, the Jim Hammond android. Created by Carl Burgos and first appearing in 1939’s Marvel Comics #1, Hammond was made under Marvel’s predecessor, Timely Comics, and stood as one of its “Big Three” alongside Captain America and Namor. Using Hammond’s longtime sidekick Toro—also made by Burgos, debuting in 1940’s Human Torch Comics #2—Ross establishes what Marvel Dimensions is aiming for and how unlike anything else the android would’ve been to the world in 1930s Marvel. Like in the original comics, Dimensions‘ take on Hammond gradually learns to control his flames and fights Namor before the two help America with “the Big One” that was WWII. […] There’s another hook to Dimensions, and that’s the promise of Ross shifting from origin stories to “something darker and more unpredictable.” The specifics of that are under wraps, but the pre-Torch pages tease at what could be. On ...