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| Heat-image tracer | |
| Type: | Technology |
| Continuity: | Marvel Universe |
| Aliases: | None |
| Availability: | Unique item |
| Manufacturer: | Reed Richards |
| Owners: | Reed Richards |
| 1st appearance: | Fantastic Four #66 |
The heat-image tracer is a fictional item featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is associated with the Fantastic Four line of titles and first appeared in Fantastic Four #66 in September, 1967 in a story titled "What Lurks Behind the Beehive?"
Description[]
The heat-image tracer was invented by Reed Richards. It had the ability of projecting an image of events that had occurred in the recent past by tracing the ambient heat patterns left behind in a given area. When Alicia Masters turned up inexplicably missing, Reed brought the heat-image tracer to her studio so as to determine what might have happened to her. Once activated, he determined that she had been manipulated into leaving with a man named Jerome Hamilton, who was an agent of the super-science cartel known as the Enclave.