NEX HULAN, THE ROBOT MAN (1933)

SOURCES: "Time's Mausoleum" (Amazing Stories, December 1933)

DESCRIPTION: “One of the strangest cases ever brought to the prpfessor's eyes had happened less than six hundred years following his death. A mastery of super-scientific surgery had been performed. A human being killed in a space wreck among the asteroids had been brought back to life. With mangled limbs, a fractured skull and punctured heart, Nex Hulan had been given mechanical arms and legs, an aluminum brain pan, radiophone ears, a rubber heart and had been restored to life, a human robot.” (“Time's Mausoleum” by Neil R. Jones)

NOTES: The Zoromes take a special interest in Nex Hulan, a man who has parts of his body replaced with metal parts. The human race could have become a machine race as well except Hulan's operations stimulate his brain cells and twist his mind. He becomes a notorious space pirate. Not much of a poster-child for mechanical surgery.

HISTORY: This character is intriguing for he is a counter-point to the Zoromes' mechanical natures. Jones makes sure the experiment fails for he doesn't want too many machine men cluttering up his series.