I noted last week as we looked at some less well executed comic book covers that there weren't a lot of Jack Kirbys or Jack Davises to go around. However, there was Bob Powell, who could hold his own with either of them when it came to horror comics.
Look, I get why robots looked like this in films with a forty dollar f/x budget. But dude, you can draw your robot and make it look like anything you want.
Back in the pre-code days lots of companies competed (if generally not artistically) with the fabled EC Comics. ACG was one such company, and put quite a few horror books. These tended to be sort of dopey but at their best had that fever dream quality you get when logic need not apply. However,…