Carl Burgos (1916-1984) After a brief period at the Harry Chesler studio in the late 1930s, the writer/artist joined the Funnies Inc. shop, which provided Timely with its first comic-book material. In Marvel Comics #1, in 1939, Burgos introduced the world to the Human Torch. He also drew the Torch for Atlas during the character's brief revival in the 1950s. He continued to work at Atlas, and later Marvel, until the mid-1960s. He was inducted into the Harvey Awards' Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2016.