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Uncanny Tales#32
Cover: Carl Burgos & Sol Brodsky
Uncanny Tales #32
“The Fat Man!”
In "The Fat Man!", a disillusioned janitor pours his frustration into building a towering, self-sustaining robot—only to be dismissed when his invention defies conventional purpose. With art by John Romita and a striking cover by Carl Burgos and Sol Brodsky, this 1955 tale from Uncanny Tales #32 captures a quiet moment of mechanical ambition in a world that doesn’t quite understand it.
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artist, inker John Romita · cover Carl Burgos, Sol Brodsky
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A disgruntled janitor's obsessive effort to create a sweeping robot costs him his job and ends in failure, but only because he sees no use for a perpetual motion machine.
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