Dr. Von Thorp, a mad scientist, builds a mighty robot to help him take over the Earth. The doctor sends the iron monster on a crime spree and the police are unable to stop it. After several failed attempts to capture the robot, Hugh Hazzard, a playboy detective, is sent by the police commissioner to stop the mad scientist's creation. Hazzard sees the robot break into a jewelry store, crawls inside of it, and temporarily deactivates it. Von Thorp summons his creation back to him and is surprised when Hazzard emerges from its body. Dr. Von Thorp is arrested and the police decide to dump the robot into the sea with other confiscated weapons. Upon hearing this, Hazzard rushes to the waterfront and rescues the robot from a "watery grave" sneaking it from a police boat and back to his apartment. Dubbing the iron man "Bozo the Robot" he uses the doctor's radio control device to make Bozo a crime-fighting tool.

*Smash Comics #1-18, 20-41

*[https://www.comics.org/character/name/hugh%20hazzard/sort/alpha/ Grand Comics Database]
*[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Hugh_Hazzard_(Quality_Universe) DC Database Wikia]
*[http://beatlethink.tripod.com/bozo.html Beatle Think]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hugh-hazzard/4005-150575/ ComicVine]
*[https://www.cosmicteams.com/quality/profiles/Bozo.html Cosmic Teams]
*[https://dcreadingorder.com/character_details.php?id=60 DC Reading Order]
*[https://www.comics.org/character/18595/ GCD]
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