Cover: Jack Kirby & Christopher Rule

Strange Tales #72

Dec 1959 · Marvel · 0.10 USD

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“I Fought the Colossus!”

In "I Fought the Colossus!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber team with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko to deliver a gripping sci-fi tale from 1959, where a seemingly perfect utopia built by an advanced supercomputer begins to unravel when the machine starts constructing a massive robot. The story unfolds with quiet dread as humanity, wary and suspicious, destroys the colossus—only to discover too late that it was meant to replace the failing system, leaving the world without its guiding intelligence. The cover by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule captures the scale and tension of the moment, making this a standout issue in Marvel’s early years.

writer Stan Lee · writer Larry Lieber · artist Jack Kirby · inker Steve Ditko · colorist Stan Goldberg · letterer Artie Simek · cover Jack Kirby, Christopher Rule

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writer Stan Lee

writer Larry Lieber

artist Jack Kirby

inker Steve Ditko

colorist Stan Goldberg

letterer Artie Simek

cover pencils Jack Kirby

cover inks Christopher Rule

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An advanced supercomputer turns Earth into a utopia, but suspicion remains, only to be inflamed when it is found to be building a giant robot. Humanity turns on the computer and destroys the robot, only to find that it was intended to replace the supercomputer, which breaks down, leaving humanity without its intelligence.

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