Book description
Collects Astonishing Tales (1970) #25-28, 30-36; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #46; Marvel Spotlight (1972) #33; Marvel Two-In-One (1975) #27, 54; Captain America (1968) #286-288.
Col. Luther Manning has been locked in a state of living death. He is no longer a man, but a mockery of a man. He has become…
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1 author picked Deathlok the Demolisher as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m a 70s kid so the Six Million Dollar Man was a staple of TV viewing but Deathlok, a cyborg created from dying/dead soldier Luther Manning, chilled and thrilled me in equal measures. The idea of waking up in the remains of your shattered body with cold metal taking the place of most flesh and a computer talking in your head: your consciousness, a voice forever trapped in a dead but unable-to-die body was something that struck deep. ‘Alert: human personality reasserting itself. Repress immediately before…’
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