Expert: Justin Case - 8/18/2009

Question
The website will not allow me to add a followup, so a new thread will start here, on that comic book search.  My understanding is that the micronauts were later in the decade (?) - I think we are dealing with the 1970-73/74 time range here, with the greatest possibility being 1971 or 1972.  Again, a summer newsstand time (Oct-Nov comic cover date?).
Artist is a tough one.  The art was, in my memory similar to both the early Marvel anthology takes (Kirby/Ditko, etc) but also similar to what one can find it DC series (Strange Adeventures, FBTU.

The similarity between the faceless green cyborg depiction and Kirby's later Mad Thinker's android from Fantastic Four vol. 1, # 71 is intruguing, suggesting that maybe Kirby recycled an image he used before.  Or, maybe he just saw that comic (es. if it was an old Marvel), liked the image and used it?  [of course..it could just be a coincidence]

The strongest clues here I see as: the time frame of when the comic was out (likely a reprint of an older original), a possible futuristic/sci fi type story in which a narrator is describing his advanced society that is able to churn out these cyborg workers off the assembly line.
And the panel art itself..showing the cyborgs as - as I remember - with no defined faces (sort of covered by a skin mesh) and green
Again- similar to the Android in FF 71, or similar in appearance to a green colored Vance Astro (Guardians of the Galaxy(

Another thing - there is an interestingly similar panel in From Beyond the Unknown 25 - which I have and which is NOT the right comic.  In FBTU 25, a conman trying to "sell the Earth" describes the advanced future...showing gray robots being made off an assembly line (ths was a reprint of a 50s story)

the similarity is likely not coincidence..perhaps one story line and image was copied from another

I think a lot of these guys were recycling story lines when deadlines hit and they couldn't think of a new story

Answer
Hi Carl -

Kirby did do a lot of cyborg/android type art in the early 70s so that might lead to something.  I'll check and see what I can come up with.

You're correct in that a lot of those artists/writers in the 70s 'borrowed' (if not outright copied) themselves and each other so that does add a new wrinkle to the search.

I'll research what I can find out about artists during the time period and see if that gives us any clue.

Thanks!

Deran