Journey into Mystery #13
In "I Captured the Abominable Snowman!", Stan Lee and Larry Lieber team up with Jack Kirby for a wild, thought-provoking tale of power, identity, and unintended consequences. When a dictator uses a duplicator machine to evade assassination, he unleashes a cascade of copies—each more ambitious than the last—leading to chaos and a revolution that forces every version of him into exile. With Kirby’s dynamic art and Dick Ayers’ crisp inks, this 1974 Marvel classic delivers a clever, surreal twist on tyranny, all wrapped in a cover by Larry Lieber and Mike Esposito.
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A dictator forces a scientist to use his duplicator machine on him so that he can have a substitute appear in public places to avoid assassination attempts. The duplicate is too much like the original, however, and refuses to expose himself to danger when he can seize power to rule the country. The dictator returns to the machine with the intent of destroying it only to find it has continually been producing duplicates. While the duplicates are arguing among themselves, a revolution occurs, and the new democratic regime deports all versions of the former dictator.
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