From Ultron to Optimus Prime: 6 great robot characters in comics

Ultron initially created Vision to be a villain. Photo: Marvel Comics

For me, robots only started looking cool when Transformers made its comics debut in 1984.

Before that, robots, androids, synthezoids or any artificial intelligence-based characters were more of supporting characters than anything else, which caused me to overlook some of the most key robot characters in comics (one of which was present at the dawn of the Marvel age!).