Who wouldn't want their own killer robot sidekick?

I forgot I had blogged the last issue of this series, but this looks like the last story for G.I. Robot, who I thought had been the series lead, or co-lead, for longer. From 1983, Weird War Tales #122, featuring "Robots Don't Dream!" Created and written by Robert Kanigher, pencils by George Tuska, inks by Ernie Colón; "The Hand of Glory" Written by Jack C. Harris, pencils by Topper Helmers, inks by Gary Martin; and "Showing the Flag" Written by Dan Mishkin and Gary Cohn, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Sal Trapani.

Sgt. Coker probably wasn't raised with stories and toys about robots, so getting paired up with G.I. Robot J.A.K.E. II (Jungle Automatic Killer Experimental) maybe wasn't as attractive a prospect as it would be for some. Coker was having nightmares: he felt the robot was "one short--one malfunction" away from turning on him, but the brass isn't hearing it. After a mission goes south, the pair are trapped in a minefield, then faces with a sumo robot; the latest Japanese attempt to match J.A.K.E. (The samurai and geisha versions had come up short!) J.A.K.E. gets torn up, but Coker rallies him to fight like a marine, and he turns it around. Coker may still not be on the same page as his largely silent partner, though.

In "The Hand of Glory," a pilot in 1933 regrets missing the Great War, and the glory that his older brother racked up, that hung over him his whole life. He waits for "the hand of glory to catch (him) in its grasp," but as usual, be careful what you wish for. Still, who attacked New York City in 1933? An unlicensed crossover, that's who!

I thought there was another crossover in "Showing the Flag," as the submarine resembles the Nautilus, but the banner doesn't match Nemo's. An old sailor tells of a battle in 1911, the HMS Relentless versus a mysterious black sub, who may have intended to claim ports by showing the flag...and who may return. Also this issue: Robert Kanigher put together a checklist of "War That Time Forgot" stories, and the next issue was a leftover from the cancelled Mystery in Space, with a Joe Kubert cover. The cover makes it look good, anyway!