Rich Buckler was one of the Bronze Age's greatest talents, and his magnum opus with the assist of writer Doug Moench, was Deathlok the Demolisher which debuted in the pages of Astonishing Tales #25. The comic had hosted Dr.Doom and Ka-Zar, but with the latter's graduation to his own title room was available for new occupants. Deahtlok was the saga of a cyborg warrior who found he worked for the wrong side in a world where good and evil was difficult to discern. He and 'Puter revolt against the government that built them and try to find fragments of the life Deathlok left behind when he "died" and bring some measure of justice to a cracked up civilization once considered the home of free will.
Deathlok is Luther Manning a man who falls victim to the government's desire for an effective efficient killer. He is deemed dead and his body fitted with all sorts of computer hardware and equipment. He rebels almost immediately from his boss, a lunatic military man named Ryker. The time of the original stories is the 90's (at the time the future) but to make Deathlok more a Marvel character he is shifted in time to the then current Marvel Universe. Others have been turned into "Deathloks", but for me Moench's and Bruckler's is the real deal.
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