Spinning with comic book adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. After Marvel lost the license to publish the series, they brought their own creation, man-machine, the Marvel Universe and gave him his own series. The first (and longest) series is known for its classic Jack Kirby art, painting and commissioning of the famous villain Jack O 'Lantern

Part of the case M-Tech Marvel, Aaron Stack, Machine Man gets his own series, this time known as the X-51. This series was the first M-Tech line, but failed to catch, and was, unfortunately, canceled with issue 12. The series was a special "issue 0", courtesy of Wizard Magazine.