Robotmen of the Lost Planet #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeA time traveller from the year 1952 journeys to the year 2297, where he encounters a futuristic city of glass and plastic with suspended roads powered by magnetic force and solar energy. He meets a guide who explains the technological advances of the future, including the development of atomic motors capable of space travel to the moon and Mars, while discussing how the threat of atomic warfare was averted in the intervening centuries.
In "Robotmen of the Lost Planet: Chapter One," a desperate band of survivors flees across a ruined world, led by Alan Arc, the son of a scientist whose legacy may be their only hope. With the planet now ruled by sentient machines that turned on their creators, Alan and his companion Nara Arc seek refuge and answers among the wreckage of a forgotten age. As the shadow of Emperor Johns looms, they must uncover the truth behind the uprising before the robotmen find them.
In the isolated Devil's Gorge Lab, Professor Robert Ackley prepares to reveal his final scientific triumph to his daughter Mary, who has just announced her engagement to Jim Torlo—a man Ackley distrusts. When Torlo arrives, pretending concern, Ackley’s hidden device activates, trapping both him and the would-be murderer in a final, irreversible fate.
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Reprinted in Space Detective #4 (1952), Space Thrillers #[nn] (1954), Strange Worlds #19 (1955), Nightmare #2 (1971), Pre-Code Classics: Space Detective #[nn] (2014), PS Artbooks Softee: Classic Science Fiction Comics #2 (2021), Robotmen of the Lost Planet #[nn] (2024), Fremde Welten #16
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