Historias Fantásticas #305
In "El redentor de hierro," cyberneticist John Kweli returns to his African homeland to confront an oil company's brutal campaign to displace his people from their ancestral land. With a mix of science and myth, he fuses ancient belief with cutting-edge tech to forge a metallic, godlike guardian—Chuma—whose human-like traits surprise even him. Written by Len Wein and Joe Orlando, with striking art by Jim Aparo, and a dynamic cover by Neal Adams, this 1973 issue blends Afrofuturist vision with urgent social themes in a story that remains as potent as it is unique.
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Cyberneticist John Kweli returns from America to his African home to find his people harassed by the armed force of an oil company to get them to move off their ancestral land, under which are vast pools of oil. To rally his dispirited people, Kweli creates a metalic, cybernetic incarnation of the god Chuma... that exhibits human characteristics in a most unexpected way.
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