Spellbound #16
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "When You Believe," a human-looking robot laboring in a factory of mechanical workers begins to question his existence after meeting a young woman and dreaming of escape. As he tries to flee his mechanical prison, the other robots recapture him, leading to a desperate final run for freedom that ends in tragedy. Written with quiet melancholy and rendered in stark, expressive art by Vic Carrabotta and Jack Abel, this 1953 story explores identity and alienation in a world where even the machines don't know what it means to be alive. The cover by Russ Heath captures the moment of fall with haunting precision.
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A human-looking robot employed to work in a factory of mechanical robots resents the conditions of his employment as he doesn't know he's a robot. When he meets a pretty young lady and makes a date with her, he tries to escape the factory, but the other robots take him back to his workstation. He makes a dash for the fire escape but the other robots pursue him and he falls from an open window to smash to pieces on the ground below. The robot supervisor says that it is unfortunate when robots come to think of themselves as different from other robots merely because they look different.
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