2000 AD #37

A menacing blue robot looms large on this November 1977 cover of 2000 AD Prog 37, its antenna-topped dome and massive mechanical fists dominating the scene as it holds a hapless human specimen — labeled "Specimen 9473: Human" — trapped in a cylindrical chamber marked "Dissect." The speech bubble makes the robot's intentions chillingly clear: "Examining specimen now… soon we shall exterminate the plague of humans!" Cover art by Brett Ewins and Brendan McCarthy crackles with that distinctive late-'70s British sci-fi energy, while inside, John Wagner and Mike McMahon deliver Part 2 of "Inferno.