Magnus - gone, but never forgotten

[gozer]

You know who doesn't get enough respect???

 

Magnus Robot Fighter, that's who.

 

No, not that nancy-boy Valiant imposter, I mean MAGNUS Robot Fighter ... from 1963. While Peter Parker was still failing his high school geography tests, Magnus was busy saving all of North America, I repeat ... ALL of North America, from a never-ending succession of angry robots, psychotic robots, killer robots, robots programmed by evil scientists, robots with a grudge, misunderstood robots, robots taken over by aliens, and poor lonely (but deadly) robots who only wanted to feel love.

 

And did Magnus have a fancy power suit? Or a magic hammer? Or a tingly spider sense? Noooooo. All he had was his killer steel-smashing karate chop! And that was just the way we liked it!

 

Some of the great things about Magnus Robot Fighter comics:

 

- Evil wacky robots

- Wacky evil robots

- Big giant evil wacky robots

- Big giant evil levitating robots that could shoot flames from their eyes

- Russ Manning art

- Unusual (for the time) painted covers

- Leeja ... what a babe!

- Cool flying cars

- Did I mention robots?

 

Behold, the wonder of Magnus ...

 

[sckao]

 

Nice! All the ones I have are low-grade... although I DID pick up the HC compilations they released recently.

[tth2]

Nice!

 

I loved that title and the painted covers, but gave up because it was so hard to find HG copies of the early issues.

[Aces]

I love the painted covers!

 

Unfortunatly by the time I was buying off the stands they were the 15 cent reprints.

 

 

It wasn't until years I discovered the originals had the great covers.

 

One of my Favs is 13:

Forgive the waves from the bag.

[gozer]

BTW, kudos to forum member tth2 -- he's the source of several of my nicer Magnus copies. A good guy to do business with (even if he does live in one of them there foreign countries).

 

gozer

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Haven't you seen "Home Alone?" If some burglars come, it'll

be a very humorous and entertaining situation.

[Jayman]

What great memories! I loved this issue to death when I was a kid.

"Alone against Talpa". Underground robots with super strong metal vs. Magnus, brainwashed children, and Troglodytes. This issue had it all!