Secrets of the Unknown #178
In "They Lurk in the Cave!", a robotics researcher's boyfriend inherits a mysterious robot that begins constructing its own companion—only to trigger a violent reaction when his human girlfriend sees the machine. Pete Tumlinson handles both pencils and inks for the story, bringing a stark, eerie atmosphere to the tale of obsession and misunderstanding. Bill Everett’s cover art captures the moment of tension with a striking, shadowed image of the scene.
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When a man with a robotics researcher as a girlfriend gets a robot from her, the creature builds itself a girlfriend robot. When the human woman sees the girl robot, she flies into a jealous rage and shoots her beau before he can explain that the girl is just a robot.
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