Don't Date Robots!

One of Basil Wolverton's most celebrated comics was the strange short Robot Woman only 5-pages long that first appeared in Stanley Morse's Weird Mysteries #2 which showed why it's dangerous to become too attached to technology. Fozzmo is a typical Golden Age comic book scientist, whether good or mad isn't considered handsome. The suave pipe-smoking bachelor scientists wouldn't show up until the Silver Age, so Fozzmo was just unlucky to premiere during the days when all comic scientists looked like they were a victim of a lab accident. The butt-ugly brainiac was an expert in robotics who gathered fortune and fame for his work, which didn't translate to his status with the ladies. Realizing necessity is the mother of invention, Fozzmo decides to just create a robot lover. This gave him a step above several anime shows that would reuse the idea decades later. The fembot has synthetic skin making her one of the world's first Terminators, and a flip top skull where Fozzmo programs her to be a totally obedient love slave named Robota. He shows her off in a big presentation where he seems to boast the fact that he's so hideous that he had to literally make himself a girlfriend. Fozzmo unfortunately programmed his doting droid too well as she keeps trying to make out with him while he's working, forcing the deformed scientist to bash the poor thing on the head, knocking her into a heating unit which melts her fake flesh. Robota now looks like the living dead as she scares Fozzmo into a real lab accident as he dies in a shower of spilled acids that he foolishly left sitting on a top shelf. We end our sci-fi romcon with a burglar hoping to snatch something from the famous inventor only to find his melted remains with his still functioning robot attacking the crook like a metallic zombie. If you are going to go through all the trouble of your own real life dreamboat, make sure to add a positronic brain so it doesn't violate Asmiov's laws of robotics.