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The Cyclops (Monsterbus p.257)

The very rushed art makes me think the writing was rushed as well. It does include a real world legend - the story of Ulysses, and that suggests a Kirby story. But the details are otherwise cliches: the woman who can't marry the man until he earns her respect, the convenient coincidence that creates the problem and the other coincidence that solves it. My guess is that Kirby just did rough layouts, and his heart was not in this story. 

Some of the dialog sounds like Stan Lee to me: for example, the very simple language, phrases like  "but the Cyclops was not dead!", general sloppiness (the Cyclops refers to "my eyes") and the ending that repeats the same phrase, and so on.

Moving on...

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