Action Comics #213
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Paul Paxton Alias Superman!", the Planeteers face a cunning threat when the ALARM robot—designed to detect crime across the cosmos—falls into the wrong hands. When Labs Logan builds a duplicate to outwit the system, the resulting deception leads to a tense showdown between the real and fake machines. Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Jim Mooney, with a cover by Al Plastino, this 1956 Action Comics issue delivers a clever twist on identity and technology in the heart of the Silver Age.
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The Planeteers have a new weapon in their eternal fight against space crime. ALARM - Animated Lensed Automated Radar Machine - is a robot that can detect crime and criminals anywhere in the universe. Frustrated, "Labs" Logan constructs a duplicate, which commits crime. Tommy is only deceived for a short time, and brings the real robot to a confrontation with the fake.
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