Wednesday, July 12, 2023

HOTW- Robotman (1942)

 

Robert Crane gets mortally wounded, and his assistant Chuck Grayson places Crane's brain into a robot body.  After a time of adjustment, he fights crime in his new body.  He also joins the All-Star Squadron and eventually gets declared human.  He eventually gets placed in suspended animation for a while, then has his brain re-transplanted into Grayson's body.  Now he is human again.  And related to Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing or Robin, depending on the time frame.

I never read much of the original Robotman's adventures, just in reprints here and there.  So I did know who he was before Roy Thomas used him for the great All-Star Squadron book.  It was a unique idea for a comic book, though Captain Future had used a robot hero earlier.  I would like to read more stories about Robert Crane.

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