As you may know, I loved the comic books of the 50's and 60's. Here's another fairly obscure one that I remember.

"Magnus, Robot Fighter"

It was set in some future megalopolis called North Am, if I recall correctly, maybe in the year 2210 or something like that. I gather that North Am stretched from Manhattan to the Rocky Mountains and as far south as Georgia or something like that. What a horrifying notion!

Anyway, this society was absolutely permeated with robots for every conceivable purpose: work, recreation, maintenance, security, military, sports, you name it. There were big one, little ones, robots of every size and shape. All this was long before Star Wars, and may have had a slight influence on it for all I know.

The main problem was evil people who built robots to commit crimes or take over the government...and out-of-control robots who went berserk for some other reason.

Hence, Magnus...a typically muscular and clean-cut hunk in a skin tight suit with the amazing karate abilities to instantly do in robots, usually by snapping their flexible little necks or nailing them in some other vulnerable spot.

When a robot got nailed in this fashion it invariably made the sound "SQUEEEEEE..." and expired. Kind of like "Runk!" (see: Turok, Son of Stone), but more high tech-sounding.

Yup. Dying dinosaurs say "RUNK!!!" and dying robots say "SQEEEE!!!".

Gotta love it.

The cool thing about Magnus was, he used his bare hands. No gadgets for this guy. Anyone with Magnus memories, please post them here. Any trivia, no matter how inane, is worth mentioning.

- LH