Number 1921: The mini couple and the Big Boy

I picked this story for one reason: the big robot. You may have noticed that I sometimes feature stories with giant robots (and also gorillas and apes, must not forget them). I remember at a very tender age being all googly-eyed over this paperback book cover:

It may have been the beginning of my lifelong love of clanking, whirring mechanical men.

In this story from Centaur’s Amazing Man Comics #15 (1941) Minimidget and his girl, Ritty, become trapped in a far future age where they are held captive, and meet Big Boy, the giant robot. It is crudely drawn by John F. Kolb, but in those early days when there were more comic books than there were talented people to fill them with pretty pictures.

How about that last panel when Minimidget tells of his allegiance to his new pal: “He’s our friend and slave”?  Must be love, eh?

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