Creepy Worlds #101

"In the Clutches of...the Kingpin!" marks a rare early collaboration by Stan Lee and Larry Lieber in the Alan Class era, delivering a haunting sci-fi tale of loyalty and unintended consequences. When a scientist builds a robot capable of human-like thought and emotion, entrusting it with his son’s safety, a single moment of crisis—after the machine defends the child from alien abductors—unravels the fragile trust between husband and wife. Cover by John Romita, this 1984-era 60-cent comic blends Cold War-era anxiety with the quiet tragedy of artificial life misunderstood.