tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post9024447472314789925..comments2024-03-29T08:31:38.748+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: I: Robot.Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-24743492875528213862016-06-26T22:10:07.886+01:002016-06-26T22:10:07.886+01:00Not only that but he was a robot created by aliens...Not only that but he was a robot created by aliens.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-8052871696065626962016-06-26T20:36:23.043+01:002016-06-26T20:36:23.043+01:00I've never read the issue but when the origina...I've never read the issue but when the original X-Men faced Frankenstein's monster (issue 40?) didn't that turn out to be a robot?dangermash aka The Artistic Actuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15669793446608643884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-792440951635281372016-05-19T09:43:27.616+01:002016-05-19T09:43:27.616+01:00And then there was the Dum Dum Dugan revelation wh...And then there was the Dum Dum Dugan revelation which was one of the most spectacularly bad ideas in the history of comics.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-20381948571074302702016-05-19T04:18:21.928+01:002016-05-19T04:18:21.928+01:00Conversely, in Fantastic Four #73, they fought Dar...Conversely, in Fantastic Four #73, they fought Daredevil, Spider-Man, and Thor, mistakenly thinking that Daredevil was Doctor Doom (long story) and that Spidey and Thor were Doom's robots. <br /><br />Nick Fury was assassinated in Avengers #72 and of course it turned out to be an LMD. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-5779356472695430742012-04-08T09:01:00.801+01:002012-04-08T09:01:00.801+01:00I was really disappointed with that story. I wante...I was really disappointed with that story. I wanted the Red Skull to pull off his own mask to reveal that HE was Bucky.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-81157572911297892852012-04-08T03:49:43.247+01:002012-04-08T03:49:43.247+01:00In Tales of Suspense #88-89, Captain America recei...In Tales of Suspense #88-89, Captain America received an SOS from his long-lost sidekick, Bucky, and flew to rescue him. When Cap arrived at the destination, Bucky attacked him and beat him up. Naturally, it turned out to be a robot designed by the Red Skull.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-66861070499200116612012-04-05T08:57:37.992+01:002012-04-05T08:57:37.992+01:00Thanks, Anon. I knew I wasn't imagining things...Thanks, Anon. I knew I wasn't imagining things.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-82392868677910424252012-04-05T06:13:18.157+01:002012-04-05T06:13:18.157+01:00Avengers #18 was the one where they fought the Com...Avengers #18 was the one where they fought the Commissar, the "Sin-Cong" warlord who turned out to be a robot. IIRC, Baron Strucker was killed in the late 1960's in Strange Tales or Captain America. He later returned, but it turned out to be an LMD programmed to think it was the real Strucker. That may have been in Captain America #273-274.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-79164133334712278062012-04-04T19:31:16.513+01:002012-04-04T19:31:16.513+01:00I seem to remember an early issue of the Avengers ...I seem to remember an early issue of the Avengers where they come up against a huge Vietnamese warlord who turns out to be a robot.<br /><br />And, of course, there's the early X-Men tale where they meet Frankenstein's monster and it turns out to be a robot built by aliens.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-593716655753893842012-04-04T09:37:19.161+01:002012-04-04T09:37:19.161+01:00My favorite is a backspin on the robot trick in Av...My favorite is a backspin on the robot trick in Avengers, when the Crimson Cowl is revealed to be first a robot and then Jarvis, but later we learn of course that the robot was in fact Ultron-5 and the ultimate villain behind the whole plot to begin with. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-7873264031457497752012-04-04T09:06:48.869+01:002012-04-04T09:06:48.869+01:00"the head of SHIELD is just a series of LMD&#..."the head of SHIELD is just a series of LMD's"<br /><br />That very early Nick Fury story (the one reprinted in POW1 Annual 1968) showed a whole bunch of Fury LMDs being picked off...later in a Steranko-created story, there was a time when everyone thought Fury was the new LMD being tested in Danger Room-style surroundings. <br /><br />And then in that run in with the Yellow Claw (Strange Tales #167), Fury applied the Satan Claw only to discover that, yes, the Claw was just a robot.<br /><br />And then there was that time that John Byrne decided he didn't like the way Chris Claremont wrote Doom in The X-Men (around #146-47), and retconned him later in the FF book to be one of his Doombots.<br /><br />And then...B Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18016629838915185467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-46880302527751042352012-04-04T00:07:52.926+01:002012-04-04T00:07:52.926+01:00I'll have a think about the robots, but in the...I'll have a think about the robots, but in the meantime, consider this: Both Iron Man and Thor had stories where alien invaders cancelled their plans to invade Earth because they hadn't realised that 'earthlings' were so powerful. Even FF #2 is a variant on this theme.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-66714642691747020032012-04-04T00:04:29.757+01:002012-04-04T00:04:29.757+01:00Didn't the aliens in the backup story from Ama...Didn't the aliens in the backup story from <i>Amazing Spider-Man</i> No 1 turn out to be robots in an issue of <i>Spectacular Spider-Man</i> some twenty years later? I'm pretty sure I have an issue stashed away somewhere which features a story entitled 'Alone Against the Aliens'. Marvel was at an all-time low by the late '70s / early '80s, obviously.R. W. Watkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660716315419914578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-59625889819992198232012-04-03T23:23:41.773+01:002012-04-03T23:23:41.773+01:00How about Hulk 4 where "Mongu the Gladiator f...How about Hulk 4 where "Mongu the Gladiator from Space" turned out to be a commie in an exo-skeleton? Does an exo-skeleton count?Boston Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-87995232063810966112012-04-03T22:13:38.937+01:002012-04-03T22:13:38.937+01:00Was there a Captain America story where it was rev...Was there a Captain America story where it was revealed that Baron Strucker was just a robot? Or am I now just hallucinating?Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-82935861278282377342012-04-03T21:09:53.227+01:002012-04-03T21:09:53.227+01:00After all these years I am still fairly sure that ...After all these years I am still fairly sure that Nick Fury did not actually survive WW2 and that the head of SHIELD is just a series of LMD'sAggynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-14913354354981911102012-04-03T21:05:18.072+01:002012-04-03T21:05:18.072+01:00Handily, this post proves I'M not a robot. Oh,...Handily, this post proves I'M not a robot. Oh, no.Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-31911728009236133162012-04-03T21:04:14.476+01:002012-04-03T21:04:14.476+01:00The Magneto who had Mesmero abduct Lorna Dane. He ...The Magneto who had Mesmero abduct Lorna Dane. He was a robot.<br /><br />Why did I forget Mesmero when people were compiling lists of third-rate villains? Post-hypnotic sugg--what? Where am I?Dougiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03965448821892833703noreply@blogger.com