2000 AD #80

From September 1978, 2000 AD Prog 80 puts Robo-Hunter front and center in a tense standoff that Ian Gibson renders with real energy — a determined man clutching a pistol and shielding a small child squares off against a looming, mechanically menacing robot bearing down on them. The cover's punchy dual speech bubbles ("You come any closer, Mr. Robot… …Robo Hunter will get you!") set up exactly the kind of scrappy human-versus-machine tension that made this weekly anthology such a thrill. Inside, T. B. Grover and Mike McMahon continue "Verdus" in Part 5, and there's even a Matchbox Toys competition to sweeten the deal.