Bad-Guy Robots

Bad-Guy Robots ("Akuyakutachi no robotto" 悪役たちのボット) is a chapter of the Astro Boy manga which originally ran in Mighty Atom Club magazine in August 1964.

Plot Summary
A gang of villains led by a mad scientist seek revenge upon Astro Boy. So by trickery, they lure him onto a rocket heading for the moon by himself with no other passengers except all of them and a giant robot built like an adult Astro with the exact same seven powers and twice as much horsepower. Halfway to the moon, they spring their trap, stopping the rocket and issuing their challenge. Unafraid, Astro flies outside to fight, but when the big robot follows he struggles and flounders in space unable to move. Astro shakes the rocket ship and all the villains quickly surrender. When the mad scientist asks Astro what his mistake was, he is told that jets are no good in the vacuum of space and the big robot only has jets whereas Astro has built in rockets that he changes to when he wants to fly in space.

Collected Volumes
This story has been collected in the following volumes:


 * Astro Boy, Volume 12 (Kodansha)
 * Astro Boy, Volume 22 (Dark Horse)