Creepy Worlds #101
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"In the Clutches of...the Kingpin!" marks a rare early collaboration by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber in the Alan Class era, delivering a haunting sci-fi tale of loyalty and unintended consequences. When a scientist builds a robot capable of human-like thought and emotion, entrusting it with his son’s safety, a single moment of crisis—after the machine defends the child from alien abductors—unravels the fragile trust between husband and wife. Cover by John Romita, this 1984-era 60-cent comic blends Cold War-era anxiety with the quiet tragedy of artificial life misunderstood.
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A man creates a robot so advanced that it has the capacity to think and feel as a human. He entrusts his son to it, but when the robot is damaged while defending the child from alien abductors, the scientist's suspicious wife is convinced that it malfunctioned, and he abandons the project.
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