Space Rangers Vs. Plant Women
One of the first buddy cop team-ups in comics was when Fiction House took their futuristic heroes Flint Baker and Reef Ryan from Planet Comics making them the original Bad Boys, but in space. The two intergalactic adventurers both joined the Space Rangers organization, and in Issue #41 of the space anthology they got sent one of their weirder missions. Flint is asked by his viceroy to transport some girl robots to a king as a "good-will gift", which is something Buck Rogers never had to do was be a sex robot delivery service. Flint decided to pass the buck to Reef who after they became partners the former underwater agent had been rewritten into a horny pervert. Reef is pissed when he finds out the cargo are mechanical and not genuine space hookers. One of the robots is really the pirate queen Huldane in disguise who knocks Reef out and takes them all to her asteroid hideout. Huldane and her flunky with the typical name of Igor manage to capture Flint too when he tries to rescue Reef. Igor uses future science to transform kidnapped girls into plant women, but Flint is the only one who has the data on transferring human energy into new bodies as all of Igor's experiments end in failure. The pirates specifically need plant women to work in their Radansium mines that only female vegetable lifeforms are capable of surviving, even though they already had the stolen fembots that could have been sent down into the mines instead. Flint and Reef bust out of their cage and employ the spare sex robots as decoys to help take down the space pirates. Huldane gets shoved off a cliff to her death, leaving our heroes the frustrating task of fraternizing with the grateful bikini-clad captives and remaining sex machines on their long trip back to Earth. The ending sounds like a harem anime mixed with a James Bond finale where the actual male heroes did very little and it was largely resolved due to the villains' overreaching incompetence.
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