Captain America #15
In "L'Escouade des Serpents !", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a poignant sci-fi tale of identity and alienation, centered on a humanoid robot who flees his creator’s lab to live among humans—only to confront the harsh reality of their cruelty. Disillusioned, he sheds his human guise, returning to the lab where his creator observes, "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long," met with the robot’s quiet, haunting reply: "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?" Sal Buscema and John Verpoorten’s striking cover captures the story’s eerie tension, making this 1981 issue a standout in the series.
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A humanoid robot escapes his creator's lab with an artificial face and clothes in order to live among humans as a man. He is so disillusioned with human beings inhumanity to their fellows that he removes the mask and allows his creator to bring him back to the lab. His maker says to him "You must have known you could never have passed for human for long." to which the robot replies to the startled engineer "Has the thought never occurred to you that no robot would want to?"
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