Kill Me or Cure Me

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Kill Me or Cure Me
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Published in	The Transformers issue 10 issue 11
First published	26th January, 1985 (part 1) 9th February, 1985 (part 2)
Writer	Tom DeFalco
Artist	Steve Ditko
Colours	Doc Martin
Letters	Parker
Editor	Dennis O'Neil
Editor-in-chief	Jim Shooter

A conventionally attractive physicist accidentally turns herself into a gruesome energy being and decides to make it everyone else's problem.

Featured characters

Regular cast	Antagonists	Incidentals	The Fantastic Four
Aaron Stack/Machine Man Peter Spaulding Oswald F. "Gears" Garvin Delmar Insurance Eddie Harris Maggie Jones Pamela Quinn Byron J. Benjamin	Ion/Dr. Voletta Todd	Sexist lab technicians FDNY	Johnny Storm/The Human Torch Ben Grimm/The Thing Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic Sue Storm/Invisible Girl

Quotes

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Notes

Kill Me or Cure Me on Marvel Database, an external wiki

Original printing

• Machine Man (vol 1) issue 14, June 1980

This was Tom DeFalco's first issue penning Machine Man. The credits are drawn into the opening splash page, appearing on diegetic pieces of rubble.

Real-life references

• Aaron quips that if he dies, he'll have seen his last episode of Dallas.
• The narration refers to the Fantastic Four as "the most famous foursome in the world! (No, we don't mean ABBA!)"