The 1976 LION annual has two Robot Archie Stories.
In the first we find an illustrated tale of
Archie meeting a robot adversary in the shape of
Robot Reg.
Ted Ritchie finds himself in an angry confrontation with a man only ever referred to as Harrison. After an initial clash, in which
Archie appears to be sent flying by
Robot Reg's repulsor beam, Ted is taken captive leaving
Archie and an injured
Ken Dale to lick their wounds.
But all is not what it seems, and
Robot Archie has been onto Harrison all along, playing the role of a weaker robot in order to draw him out. He soon sets off with
Dale and tracks down Harrison,
Robot Reg and their captive.
Turns out the repulsor was a dud.
Archie threw the fight and always knew he was the superior robot. This he demonstrates in the final conflict where he knocks
Reg's block off.
A fitting end to the tale, and
Robot Reg. Although to be fair to him he was only doing what he was programmed to do and was merely a tool being used by Harrison.
In the second story, this time a comic book tale, we see
Robot Archie and friends in the Caribbean.
This eight page story sees
Archie combat
The Living Dead. Yep.
Zombies. 'Beware - I am Archie Lord of the Scrapyards' is
Archie's
challenge to
Baron Samedi,
Lord of the Graveyards, who turns out to be a bloke on stilts...
and the
Zombies ? Well, they turned out to be men who had been hypnotised. Nothing is as it seems in the world of
Robot Archie. Except
Robot Archie himself.
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