ROBOT WEEK Day 6 - An EC Comics ROBOT Double Feature!

THE APOCOLYTE

here, back with more 

Today I am presenting yet another fantastic 

DOUBLE FEATURE,

two awesome classic ROBOT comic stories from EC Comics!

First up is Part 2 of the adventures of Adam Link, ROBOT!

Artwork is again by Joe Orlando, drawing Al Feldstein's adaptation of Otto Binder's original story, from I, ROBOT!

(To see part 1 click here)

From WEIRD SCIENCE-FANTASY #28, 1955,

"THE TRIAL OF ADAM LINK!"

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Joe Orlando and Otto Binder created a whole new version of this same Adam Link story 

10 years later for CREEPY! 

To compare, click on the link and go to 

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER 

to see the excellent black and white treatment!

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For our second feature, 

we go back a few years to the beginnings of EC's New Trend, in 1950. 

Publisher Bill Gaines and his editor/head writer Al Feldstein begin an experimental new style of comics. From the first issue of WEIRD FANTASY comes this tale by Al Feldstein (and Gaines).

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"AM I MAN OR MACHINE?"

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In Memoriam

Albert Feldstein

Oct. 24, 1925 - April 29, 2014

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ROBOT WEEK Day 4 - Weird Wednesday with MARVEX The Super Robot

Hello Comics Fan!

I am

THE APOCOLYTE!

You have entered into Day 4 of

It also happens to be a Wednesday, 

and the comic for today is a little bit...different...so we are going to have

Golden Age comics are, through the natural passage of time, a bit odd to the modern comic enthusiast. Sure, all the die-hard comics fans like us love them for what they are, but Golden Age comics can't help it sometimes that they come off quite often as...well, weird.

Today's Robot post fits that description.

MARVEX The Super Robot had only three Golden Age appearances. We will look at his origin, from Marvel's DARING MYSTERY COMICS #3, April 1940. This was the era of the infancy of comics, as well as the infancy of ROBOTS as characters in comics, so Marvex was one of the earliest ROBOT heroes.

According to sources like the GCD and Atlas Tales, the artwork was done by Hal Sharp, and if Doc V says so, that's good enough for me. I don't know much about Hal Sharp other than he drew GA Flash and Mr. Terrific for DC in the early 40's, but his simpler Golden Age style here adds to the weirdness quality.

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Whoa, big fella!

If were not going to be more than friends, 

you can just go ahead and put those clothes back on!

You may have noticed that Marvex is a grey toned metal person, yet on page 5 the colorist made a boo-boo and colored him like a normal human. Marvex is also a vicious son-of-a-bitch who has no problem killing people (he smashes one bad guy into some rocks, throwing him by his hair, and he throws Von Cragg through a wall to fall 13 stories to the street below..Von Cragg though was clearly a villain, as evidenced by his monacle)!

It is also clear that both Marvex and Clara have relationship issues.

She says he is her only friend, and he begins to strip down for some apparent ROBOT nastiness. 

Cue wah-wah guitar music.

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That'll do it for now.

See you tomorrow for more

comics, stories and artwork!

For more ROBOT WEEK Robots Comics, check out what I have over at

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER!

ROBOT WEEK Day 3 - THE CRIME MACHINE

Hello!
I am
THE APOCOLYTE!

This is Day 3 of ROBOT WEEK,
and I bring you another Robotic adventure.

Today's tale is entitled "THE CRIME MACHINE",
and it originally was published in American Comic Group's ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKOWN #58, August 1954.
The artist is Robert Q. Sale, who spent the main part of his comics career drawing for Atlas / Marvel comics during the 1950's.
During that time at Marvel (between 1952 and 1957 when he left comics for advertising) Sale did only one story for another company,
and this is that story.

It is a story as old as the hills,
the story of a giant ROBOT who runs amuck and kills so many people your head will spin.
But don't blame him. He was only doing what he was told, of course.

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" 'Twas beauty killed the beast."

Er, wait...that's another story.

Now, if you haven't already seen it, I have another juicy ROBOT nugget for you.

Here's a hint...

(click to enlarge)

That there is a super swell ROBOT painting by artist

and over at my other comics blog,

BLACK 'N' WHITE AND RED ALL OVER

is a classic Corben ROBOT story.

I invite you to click up there somewhere and go check it out.

You won't regret it.

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Well, that's enough until tomorrow, when we meet here again for DAY 4 of

I'll leave you with this one thought...