Magnus, Robot Fighter #20, November 1967
Gold Key was never a publisher of choice for me as a kid. It had to be a really slow day at the comics rack, and I had to be flush with cash (meaning a few extra coins) to pick up the one Gold Key title I liked: Magnus Robot Fighter.
Russ Manning’s vision of the future was so clean and pristine that I didn’t much care about the stories, I just loved the art. Beautiful futuristic cities, and crazy badass robots. Oh, and his men and woman were gorgeous. Natural selection had apparently taken leaps and bounds by 4000 AD.
The future looked really bright — minus that whole totalitarian robot situation, of course.
Magnus Robot fighter turns 60 in 2023. 1963 was apparently a good year for armor.
