Amazing Adventures #4
In "I Am Robot X," Stan Lee and Steve Ditko deliver a striking early Marvel tale of moral reckoning, where ruthless businessman Simon Sledge finds his fate unexpectedly upended by a mysterious shoeshine. When his feet begin moving on their own, leading him away from a deal that would cement his power, the truth behind the bootblack’s calm gaze begins to unfold. A haunting, visually inventive story with a twist that lingers long after the final page, rendered in Ditko’s distinctive style and colored by Stan Goldberg, with a striking cover by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
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Simon Sledge is a cruel and heartless businessman who delights in making others suffer. On the way to the biggest deal of his life, one that will eliminate the last of his competition, he stops for a shoeshine. Suddenly his feet are moving away from his destination, taking him far from the deal that will give him a monopoly in his field. He glances back at the bootblack who is revealed as an angel, and who says that when human laws can’t touch someone like Sledge, there are always higher laws.
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