HIP Classics #19126
In "Bemoei je niet met een barracuda!", Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a quietly unsettling tale from 1969, where a department store employee’s unease turns strange when a bridal display triggers an unsettling transformation. The story unfolds with eerie precision, as a manikin’s presence begins to blur the line between man and machine—no details revealed, just a growing sense of something not quite right. The cover by Gene Colan and Dan Adkins captures the mood perfectly, a striking visual that hints at the uncanny without giving anything away.
In a quiet department store where manikins stand frozen in perfect stillness, an odd employee grows uneasy as one of the female manikins is readied for a bridal display. When the worker vanishes and the groom at the wedding is replaced by a lifelike manikin mirroring his face, the line between display and reality begins to blur—leaving only silence and the unblinking eyes of the mannequins behind.
In "Ik ben een robot!" from HIP Classics #19126 (1969), a desperate criminal steals a high-tech robot to pull off a bank heist, only to find himself locked out of his own hideout when a misworded command backfires—trapping him inside with the very machine he sought to control. The story’s sharp, suspenseful setup hinges on a single, fatal misunderstanding, all told in crisp, typeset letters with no script credit listed.
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