Weird Wonder Tales 1973 #5 - back issue - $9.00
A corrupt police chief uses frivolous fines to fund a giant useless prison in order to increase his own prestige. He imprisons a passerby for no reason, but is shocked to find that he is the leader of a group of aliens who are in such a rush to leave that they take the whole prison when they cannot open his cell, leaving the chief disgraced and humbled.
A researcher receives telepathic signals from evil Martians, now long dead, who want him to build a machine that will allow them to cross space and conquer Earth. The gold that he gets through the machine as payment is now molten and buries him.
A robot is given a command to kill the man in the room by someone who wishes to steal the robot after it has slain its creator. When the would-be thief enters the room, the robot slays him as well, then the robot goes out into the night looking for rooms to slay men in.
Aliens from a dry desert world park their invasion fleet on a large expanse of the ocean thinking it to be a solid surface, whereupon the ships sink like stones.
On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #106, May 1974.
- The Thing in Cell 13! - Lieber/Romita/Milgrom credits per Nick Caputo, August 2012. Original indexer credited Romita with pencils and inks.
- Greed! - reprint mistakenly identified as from Astonishing Tales #36
- I, the Robot - The Human Robot next appears in What If? (Marvel, 1977 series) #9, in the superhero team eventually known as the Agents of Atlas.
- Bullpen Bonus Page - house ad for Giant-Size Spider-Man (Marvel, 1974 series) #1
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