The Shadow Battles The Robot Master - 1945

The Shadow battles The Robot Master in this story from 1945, which was published by Street and Smith, the people who brought you the pulp magazine. Walter Gibson wrote many of the pulp stories and sometimes wrote the comic book version as well; the Grand Comics Database credits him with this one.

Reblogged from http://fourcolorshadows.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The line about an "invisible robot" appears to be a misuse of the word "invisible" to mean "invincible", something that Carol Hughes did in FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE.

 

 

 

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Phantom Lady - "Robbing Robot"

This story has the later ( and better known ) version of the Phantom Lady with a skimpier costume. She also has the "black light ray" she used against the bad guys in this period.




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This page was actually on the inside of the front cover, which is why it looks different. The cover was made of a different paper stock, and for some reason the publishers would color the first page differently when it was on the inside of  the cover like this. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Star Hawkins - Ilda The Glamour Robot

Star Hawkins had a girl sidekick who was a robot. Their adventures used to appear in DC Comic's STRANGE ADVENTURES in the early 1960's. Mike Sekowsky was the usual artist, but this story was drawn by Gil Kane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Torchy In "Beauty And The Robot"

Bill Ward's 'Torchy" stories originally appeared as fillers in DOLL MAN, but eventually she got her own title. This story was originally published in the first issue of TORCHY. The art is by Gill Fox. It seems that Bill Ward was not able to handle the assignment himself at the time.

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Actually Torchy looks kind of funny, but she resembles some of the other girls being drawn in comics at the time. She's kind of like Milt Caniff's version of Jane Mansfield.

 

 

 

 

They used to show robots carrying off girls on movie posters. This is a parody somebody did with Bettie Page.

 

 

The robot is actually from FORBIDDEN PLANET, which actually came out in 1956. FORBIDDEN PLANET had a poster that showed the robot carrying Ann Francis, which evidently started that trend. But they'd had robots carrying girls around before. This Torchy story was originally published in 1949.

 

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