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   Ping Kuo to rscheckel   
   Re: Hunting Down a Comic from Memory   
   17 Jul 05 04:09:44   
   
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   From: removeantispam*pkuo@earthlink.net   
      
   In article <1121438005.090303.58830@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
    "rscheckel"  wrote:   
      
   > I'm trying to find a comic book series that was published when I was   
   > much younger.  I'm guessing the books came out between 1985 and 1990.   
   > They were printed in black and white with magazine-quality, color   
   > covers.  I don't remember much, except that they were cool!   
      
   > The art was done in manga/japanimation-style.  The stories involved a   
   > team (I think) of martial arts experts who could/would change into   
   > robots.  Now, their robotic versions may have just been armor (think   
   > Iron Man), but thier "suits" weren't something they put on... they   
   > "transformed."  And their robotic versions were not boxy or angular,   
   > nor were they animals.  They were not like Robotech, Voltron, or   
   > Transformers.  They were "organic," smooth, and humanoid.   
      
   > There's a change that they were aliens (not from Earth), but I'm not   
   > 100% sure of that.  Any help would be much appreciated.   
      
   I want to say Saint Seiya, but most likely Alan is right it is Guyver.   
      
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