E. George Cowan

Originally built by Professor C. R. Ritchie, the mechanical being known as Robot Archie was employed to battle injustices around the world. First published in Lion Comic, Robot Archie's adventures are now reprinted for the first time in over fifty years! This volume also includes a one-off story which finds Archie face-to-face with The Spider, The King of Crime. Together with the Professor's nephew, Ted Ritchie and his best friend Ken Dale, Archie is travelling in a temperamental time-machine called 'The Castle.' Desperate to get back to their own time, the trio land in the middle of a future alien invasion. Can Archie defeat the sinister Krulls on his own?

A strange and terrible living jelly-like substance â?? the product of nuclear weapons testing â?? emerged from the depths of the sea near Canada in 1965. Known by the human world as â?? The Sludgeâ??, this unique monster posed a threat to anything that stood in its way. Anything it covered became possessed of a frightening, malignant power aimed against Mankind!

Originally built by Professor C. R. Ritchie, the mechanical being known as Robot Archie was employed to battle injustices around the world, particularly in the jungles of Africa and South America. The automated action hero has worked with the Professor to create'The Castle' - a fully-functioning time machine! Together with the Professor's nephew, Ted Ritchie and his best friend Ken Dale, Archie is ready to embark on a journey through time that will bring him into conflicts with medieval knights and a terrifying, dystopian future where aliens have conquered the Earth!