The Jungle robot - Robot Archie
The First Adventures
from the Pages of the Lion
Invented by Professor CR Ritchie
and given to his son Ted and his best end Ken Dale
for various expeditions into jungles to loot old temples
for treasure and fend off understandably irate.
Natives who weren't altogether keen on the pals
looting said treasures.
For about a decade the strip provided such four-square
adventures but by the sixties Archie (his name always
emblazoned on his chest
in big letters in case the pals mistook him for some poor
Peruvian tribesman who crossed their path)
was freed of remote control
and given a voice box; becoming: more-or-less sentient.
The personality he was granted was that of a boisterous sat
always ready to tell everyone how great he was, always ready
to cannon through a wall instead of using a door,
always ready to dupe some local tribe into
thinking he was a god
and always ready to just thump anyone
and anything that got in his way.
The result was brilliance.
Art by E. George Cowan
139 Pages
Compiled and edited by H. C.
We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader
this magnificent compilation.
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