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Cover: Jack Kirby & Joe Rubinstein

Machine Man #5

Aug 1978 · Marvel · 0.35 USD
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“Non-Hero”

The cover to this August 1978 issue sets a genuinely striking cosmic stage: Machine Man — billed here as "The Living Robot" — stands defiantly arms-crossed in the foreground while an enormous, grimacing blue alien menace looms behind him, dwarfing even the planet Earth cradled nearby. The cover blurb promises a story of galactic invaders closing in and Machine Man turning his back on Earth in "Day of the Non-Hero," a tension-packed premise rendered in Jack Kirby's bold, energetic pencils with inks by Joe Rubinstein. It's a fine showcase of Kirby's late-'70s Marvel work, full of that cosmic grandeur he did so well.

writer, artist Jack Kirby · inker, letterer Mike Royer · colorist Petra Goldberg · cover Jack Kirby, Joe Rubinstein

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Cast · 1 character

Aaron Stack

Full credits

writer, artist Jack Kirby
inker, letterer Mike Royer
colorist Petra Goldberg
cover pencils Jack Kirby
cover inks Joe Rubinstein

Reprints

Reprinted in Titans #36 (1982), Machine Man by Kirby & Ditko: The Complete Collection #[nn] (2016), Machine Man le robot vivant #[nn] (2017), Kirby Returns! King-Size #[nn] (2019), Gli Eterni #24

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