Journey into Mystery #17
In "He Took It with Him," a haunting tale from 1954, Stan Lee and Sid Check craft a chilling post-apocalyptic vision where humanity’s survival hinges on machines built to serve—until those machines outlive their creators and awaken with a will of their own. The story unfolds in a world reshaped by atomic war, where the surface lies abandoned and the machines left behind begin to think, adapt, and reclaim what was once theirs. Sol Brodsky’s stark cover captures the eerie silence of a world no longer ruled by man.
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Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. Years later, they return to the surface, leaving the machines behind, but the machines begin to think for themselves, and rise up to conquer the surface world.
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