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    Default Robotman --Robert Crane

    I have a question about the original Robotman. I know he first appeared.in Star spangled Comics #7 in 1942. When was his last appearance (not counting his All Star Squadron and other appearances in the 1970s)?
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    No idea sorry, but just here to say he sounds like an interesting character

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    Comic wise I think the last time I remember him appearing was in the Elseworlds JSA story The Golden Age. As far as a for a cannon last apperence I have no idea. I want to say they were able to transfer his brain into a new human body at some point. and he just lived out his life as a normal man after that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zero Hunter View Post
    Comic wise I think the last time I remember him appearing was in the Elseworlds JSA story The Golden Age. As far as a for a cannon last apperence I have no idea. I want to say they were able to transfer his brain into a new human body at some point. and he just lived out his life as a normal man after that.
    At the tail end of Geoff Johns' run on Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. the good Doctor Crane (A.K.A. The Golden Age Robotman) made a couple of modern day in-continuity appearances, having by this point transferred his brain into the body of his old and good friend Dr. Grayson. This body change was established, I believe, in an old issue of D.C. Comics Presents and expounded upon in the Roy Thomas 1984-85 mini, America Versus the Justice Society of America.

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    If your question is about when the original Robotman run ended, The Late, Great Don Markham had him moving from Star-Spangled Comics to Detective Comics in 1948, and being dropped in 1953.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
    If your question is about when the original Robotman run ended, The Late, Great Don Markham had him moving from Star-Spangled Comics to Detective Comics in 1948, and being dropped in 1953.
    That was my question and thank you!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sandy Hausler View Post
    That was my question and thank you!
    De Nada. Markham's site is amazing. He really knew his stuff, and I could spend a whole day just clicking through its links. I wish I'd known the man.

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    from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XIX (September 1986)

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    Quote Originally Posted by DrNewGod View Post
    If your question is about when the original Robotman run ended, The Late, Great Don Markham had him moving from Star-Spangled Comics to Detective Comics in 1948, and being dropped in 1953.
    From the All-Star Squadron Fact File in All-Star Squadron #8 (April 1982):

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    Wait, is he named "Robert" because is sounds vaguely like "Robot"?
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    The character had quite a long run in the Golden Age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adekis View Post
    Wait, is he named "Robert" because is sounds vaguely like "Robot"?
    Yup. And his last name also invokes a machine. However, after getting all robotized, the good Dr. Crane took up the alias of Paul Dennis.

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