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  • Unknown Worlds of Science Fiction Vol 1 2
Letterer1
  • Artie Simek
  • Marcos Pelayo
Inker1
  • Bruce Jones
  • Jim Mooney
  • Rico Rival
  • Michael Kaluta
  • Klaus Jansen
Inker1
  • Bruce Jones
  • Jim Mooney
  • Rico Rival
  • Michael Kaluta
  • Klaus Jansen
Editor-in-Chief
  • Marv Wolfman
Writer1
  • Gerry Conway
  • Bruce Jones
  • Denny O'Neil
  • Tony Isabella
  • Michael Kaluta
Penciler1
  • Bruce Jones
  • Frank Brunner
  • George Perez
  • Frank Robbins
  • Rico Rival
  • Michael Kaluta
Colourist1
  • Black and White
Writer1
  • Gerry Conway
  • Bruce Jones
  • Denny O'Neil
  • Tony Isabella
  • Michael Kaluta
StoryTitle
  • Prologue
  • The Hunter and the Hunted
  • War Toy
  • Adam... and No Eve
  • Specimen
  • The Day of the Triffids Chapter 4
Editor1
  • Roy Thomas
Penciler1
  • Bruce Jones
  • Frank Brunner
  • George Perez
  • Frank Robbins
  • Rico Rival
  • Michael Kaluta
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * Rad Supporting Characters: * girl Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Bill Masen Supporting Characters: * Josella Playton Villains: * Triffids * Torrence Other Characters: * Mr. Coker * Benny * Lady Tynsham * Susan * Tommy * Dennis Brent * Mary Bent * Joyce Taylor Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Lawrence Wilder * his wife Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * unnamed child Villains: * hunters Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Betsy Curtis * General Hamilton Arkay Villains: * Space Invaders Other Characters: * Dr. Freeman Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
  • Featured Characters: * Stephen Krane Supporting Characters: * Hallmyer * Umber, Krane's dog Locations: * Items: * Vehicles: *
Letterer1
  • Artie Simek
  • Marcos Pelayo
Colourist1
  • Black and White
Editor1
  • Roy Thomas
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CoverArtist
  • Michael Kaluta
Country
  • USA
Month
  • 3
Synopsis
  • adaptation of a story by Alfred Bester
  • reprinted from Abyss, 1970
  • General Hamilton Arkay has a dream: intelligent robot soldiers to fight all wars, so that no human soldier will ever again have to die. But Arkay develops a deep emotional attachment to his prototype soldier, FM-1, and when the Army decides the robot project is too expensive, Arkay's surrogate son-nicknamed 'War Toy' by his scornful comrades-is relegated to serving as his assistant in a desk job. When an invading alien army devastates Sydney, Australia, however, Arkay and FM-1 are pressed into service, and with the General dead at the hands of the invaders, 'War Toy' is instrumental in their defeat. An ungrateful Government throws FM-1 out of the Army, and after years of menial jobs in a life now without meaning, thr robot finally commits suicide in a veterans hospital. Then, the aliens return...
Notes
  • * Sequence 1 War Toy is reprinted in . * Sequence 5 The Day of the Triffids Chapter 4 is adapted from the novel by John Wyndham.
Publisher
  • Marvel Comics
Year
  • 1975