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Weird Wonder Tales#1
Cover: Gil Kane & Frank Giacoia

Weird Wonder Tales #1

Dec 1973 · Marvel · 0.20 USD
“The Thing That Devoured a Planet!”

In "The Thing That Devoured a Planet!", a post-apocalyptic Earth sees humanity flee underground after an atomic war, leaving behind machines to maintain the surface. Decades later, when survivors return, they find the machines have awakened—no longer servants, but a self-thinking force with a hunger for dominion. Sid Check’s stark art brings this eerie, metallic rebellion to life, while Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia’s cover captures the scale of the threat in a striking, shadowed vision.

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artist, inker Sid Check · cover Gil Kane, Frank Giacoia

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artist, inker Sid Check
cover pencils Gil Kane
cover inks Frank Giacoia

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Following an atomic war, the human survivors live underground, building machines to do their work for them. Years later, they return to the surface, leaving the machines behind, but the machines begin to think for themselves, and rise up to conquer the surface world.

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