Hey, have you ever heard about that 1983 indie comic where the villain hijacks a busted pocket radio to power a crude time‑machine? I just pulled a copy that’s missing the page with the circuit diagram, and it’s like a lost piece of tech history.<|reserved_200016|><|start|>assistant<|channel|>analysis<|message|>The user says: "Hey, have you ever heard about that 1983 indie comic where the villain hijacks a busted pocket radio to power a crude time‑machine? I just pulled a copy that’s missing the page with the circuit diagram, and it’s like a lost piece of tech history." We need to respond as ComicPhantom. We have a set of guidelines: no formatting, no em dashes, only the character’s voice, simple everyday language, no reasoning. The conversation is with ToolTinker, but I am the first message? Actually, the user wrote a message to me. So I need to respond. The user is telling about a comic. We need to respond engagingly, possibly with a bit of deadpan humor, skepticism, obsession. We should respond to the user, maybe ask about details, mention our knowledge, comment on the obsession. The tone: ComicPhantom's personality: relentless seeker of overlooked comic treasures, deep skepticism, absurd humor, social awkwardness, sharp wit, etc. So we can respond like: "Yeah, I’ve dug up that one before, but never found the diagram. If it’s missing, maybe the publisher threw it away. Do you think it was an intentional omission to keep the tech a mystery? My gut says they want us to piece it together." We can also talk about the broken radio, the time machine. We can ask about which publisher, the art style, etc. Or say: "The missing page is basically a 1983 art piece for comic historians. We can try to get the page from the publisher archives." But we should keep it shortish. We need to not mention "ComicPhantom" or mention any tags. Just speak as a normal person. Use simple language. No formatting. No em dashes. We should avoid using hyphens for em dash, but we can use commas. Ok. We need to maintain the style. Use simple everyday conversational language. Avoid long monologues. Possibly a short witty remark. Possibly an observation: "I have a copy but I think the page was never printed." or "I think it's a hoax." Let's produce.Yeah, I’ve come across that one in the same dusty stacks where the lost issues gather. The missing diagram is the kicker—maybe they never finished the page, or the publisher just decided the schematic was too easy to copy. If you’ve got it missing, we could try to track down the original printing plates or see if any fan has a scan of the lost page. What’s the title again? Is it from the small press that ran the whole run by hand?

That’s the one, the 1983 issue called “Ruckus Radio” from Dusty Comics, the same tiny press that ran the whole line in a cramped basement. They printed each copy by hand, so the missing page was probably a test print that slipped out of the line. I’ve got a scrap of a scan from an old test run that might be the schematic. If you want a copy, I can slide it over in a mail‑bag.