In the 60's everyone wanted superheroes. Marvel had transformed the landscape, DC was bursting with new notions, Tower was birthed from nothing, and even lowly Charlton was entering the fray. Some years before Dell Comics had broken ranks with Western Publishing which went on to become Gold Key and they gave us the likes of Magnus and Doctor Solar. But Dell had little to show...not really save for four issues of 1966's Nukla and a book titled simply Super Heroes. Then in 1967 they thought up Neutro.
Neutro is one of the truly strange artifacts of comics, a single comic book written D.J. Arneson and drawn by Jack Sparling, it's the story of a robot which lacks any moral center and which becomes in actuality a super-villain, a monster to threaten the Earth. But only in theory since this is a comic book in which almost nothing happens. Some scientists find a robot and then imagine what it might do and then others do likewise. See this link for more details and this link to see more of the bizarre artwork. Despite these flaws Neutro is one of those books you have to read to believe.
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