Crypt of Shadows #19
In "I Fought the Colossus!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber team up with Jack Kirby on art and Steve Ditko on inks for a gripping 1975 Marvel tale where Earth’s perfect utopia, run by an advanced supercomputer, takes a dark turn when the machine begins constructing a colossal robot. As fear spreads and humanity destroys the colossus, they discover too late that it was meant to replace the failing system—leaving civilization without its guiding intelligence. The cover by Ron Wilson and Frank Giacoia captures the scale of the threat, all in a 25-cent comic from the golden age of Marvel.
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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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