Originally posted by Sin I AM
Have Human Torch and Iceman actually fought? I wonder y the never played up on that rivalry or at least created a team up.
I seem to remember that in some comic, they actually DID team-up, and literally either shook hands or high-fived and shouted "Fire & Ice!", seemingly as happy at the prospect as readers must have been.
As for versus ...
I can't imagine early stories would have featured more than a steam cloud.
With Torch's greater power during that period however, the fight would be his to lose the moment he actually got serious, especially since Torch can fly and Bobby can't.
If you want a near equivalent, however, check out re-runs of the old "Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends!" cartoons from the 1980s. At one point, villains have Firestar and Iceman in temperature-contrasting rooms; Firestar they are trying to freeze, Iceman they are trying to melt and presumably, eventually, burn.
In reality, the two, unbeknownst to each other, are being tricked through fear into pitting their power against each other with the goal of both taking the other out ...