We've seen how rough justice could be in some of those old crime comics. It's a good thing for us that we live in the 21st Century with our modern criminal system...
Of course, back in the '90s someone convinced people they'd be made into batteries if this happened, so the system was abandoned. Odds are that they were a bit more accurate in their predictions for robotics and artificial intelligence:
Yeah, that's more believable to anyone who watches modern corporate CEOs.
These two stories were drawn for World Of Fantasy by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule. Rule seems mostly forgotten now - it's been over 50 years since he retired. But he was one of Kirby's primary Inkers back in the Atlas era, starting with the returning Kirby's first cover & story for Strange Worlds #1 in 1958. Rule inked most of Kirby's earlier works at Atlas, and was later joined by Dick Ayers. Ayers continued working into the Marvel superhero years and was better remembered for the earlier work because of it. Both artists had a fluid ink line that well suited Kirby's pencils, and in those uncredited days it's often hard to know who's work you're admiring. In the beginning, it was almost exclusively Rule.
Besides these two tales, the Kirby & Rule duo also produced four covers for World Of Fantasy:
stories & covers drawn by Jack Kirby & Christopher Rule for World Of Fantasy #s 15 - 19 (1958-59)
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