The Robots are Coming! THE ROBOTS ARE COMING!!!

Last Week, We Re-Presented a Warning About the Dangers of AI Run Amok...

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday
Then, on Friday, we relieved your tension with a tale of a benevolent, self-aware robot...

Friday
Tomorrow, we return to a trio of robots who show us the best robots may be ones under direct human control!

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Space Hero Satudays BRANT CRAIG: INTERPLANETARY DETECTIVE "Space Pirates of Lanthus IV"

He's not the first "Interplanetary Detective"...

...that honor goes to Planet Comics' Fero: Planetary Detective (who went "inter"planetary in his second appearance)!

But Brant Craig was the longest-lasting, with seven appearances!

Yeah, let's not worry about the innocent spacemen who were just killed during this raid, or their families.

They're just collateral damage...

This never-reprinted premiere from Youthful's Captain Science #2 (1951) was probably illustrated by Bill Molno.

The writer is unknown.

Brant Craig continued through the remaining five issues of Captain Science.

When the book was re-titled Fantastic, Brant (and Captain Science) made their final bows in the first issue.

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Friday Fun / Robot Reading Room ROMEO THE ROBOT "Origin"

A Sentient Robot with an ongoing series...from DC !

But, I'd bet you never heard of him!

You certainly didn't see him since none of his stories have ever been reprinted!

The above debut tale from DC's Action Comics #68 (1944), scripted and illustrated by Jack Farr, is the first of four appearances by the mirthful mechanical man!
He bounced from book to book, used whenever editors had a four-page slot to fill, with his last appearance almost a decade later, in 1952!
Farr, a cartoonist who began his career back in the 1920s doing newspaper and slick magazine cartoons, made a transition to comic books quite easily, working for almost everyone (even EC Comics) at one point or another, with the bulk of his work done for DC Comics from 1943 to 1953.
He went back to newspaper/magazine cartooning during the near-death of the comic book business during the "Seduction of the Innocent" scandals of the mid-1950s, 

Robot Reading Room ROBOTMEN OF THE LOST PLANET "Chapter Three: Rise of the Humans!"

When Last We Left What Remains of Humanity...

Don't you love it when the story synopsizes itself?

(Note that inside front cover illustrator Mort Lawrence did an excellent job matching story artist Gene Fawcette's art style!)

So there's at least one universe where we don't end up enslaved by machines!

Yay!

This 1952 one-shot title from Avon Comics was scripted by Walter (The Shadow) Gibson and rendered by Gene Fawcette.

Avon did an amazing amount of one-time-only titles, probably more than any other publisher.

Some were adaptations of novels Avon's paperback division had published, like An Earth Man on Venus.

Others, like RobotMen, were original stories!

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Robot Reading Room ROBOTMEN OF THE LOST PLANET "Chapter Two: the Robots Rule the Earth!"

When Last We Left the Few Surviving Humans on a Post-Robot Apoocalyptic Earth...

...just five years and we've lost all sense of fashion?

(And what weapons were they using to kill the large mammals that provided those big pelts?)

Tomorrow:

The Astounding Finale as We Witness...

Rise of the Humans!

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