Out of This World #10
In "Return From Saturn," Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a delightfully twisted tale where precision and obsession collide. When a bookkeeper’s minor error sends the Clock-Maker into a frenzy, the local police arrive to find a mechanical man being repaired—raising questions about what’s truly alive in a world built on perfect time. The story’s eerie tone is perfectly captured in Rocke Mastroserio’s striking cover, a 20p comic from 1981 that’s as sharp as its central mystery.
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The Clock-Maker cannot stand anything that's not perfect. When his bookkeeper makes a mistake it sounds like he has killed him. The local police arrive to discover the bookkeeper was a clockwork man and the Clock-Maker was repairing him.
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