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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 11
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English
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Gadget Boy's very existence is in jeopardy as Spydra goes to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City to destroy the first prototype robots ever made. If she succeeds, both Gadget and G-9 will cease to exist altogether!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 17
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English
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After losing a 'best-dressed heroine' contest to Heather, Spydra decides to make the world pay. But how? By ridding the world of its silk trade! So it's off to Feudal Japan, circa 1853, to stop Commodore Perry from opening up Japan's silk trade with the rest of the world.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 2
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English
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Gadget Boy's introduction to Dim Sum cuisine is interrupted with his latest mission. Spydra has gone back to 211 B.C., China, where she plans on stealing the Emperor's herd of jade dragons, bringing them back in time, and back to life!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 25
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English
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With the invention of her new Metabolizer Helmet, which has the ability to create whatever the wearer is thinking of, Spydra heads back in time to 1861, Switzerland. There she places the cap onto the head of one Mary Shelley, the author of the horror novel Frankenstein.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 26
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English
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Spydra is tired of being outwitted by "that dullard Dabble" and his brilliant inventions and tired of being chased through time by Gadget Boy and Co. So she goes "Back to the Future," to Cleveland, Ohio in 1957 to meet up with Dabble's parents-to-be - Myra and Skippy Dabble.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 14
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English
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Spydra wants her production of Shakespeare's King John to be perfect. And what better way to top off the show than to have the real Plantagenet crown originally worn by Charles I!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 5
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English
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It's off to the Cretaceous period for the Gadget team as Spydra tries to amass an army of dinosaurs, with plans on housing them in her specially made biosphere to get them through the ice age!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 19
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English
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Traumatized by an early piano recital of "Jingle Bells," Spydra decides to eliminate Christmas once and for all by destroying its very roots. She goes after St. Nicholas, Old Befana of Italy, and Martin Luther as he decorates his first Christmas tree.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 3
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English
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The Olympics are coming to town... but not to Spydravania, and their rebuff of her sends Spydra on yet another rampage. She and her cohorts take the Sypdra-Chron back to 400 B.C. Greece, to sabotage the ancient Olympic games.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 18
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English
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In order to enact the power of a mystical sun-controlling ruby, Spydra takes Boris back to India in 1928 and enrolls him as a student of a great swami master. Meanwhile Heather, Gadget and G-9 embark on a perilous journey to the Swami's mountain top citadel.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 4
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English
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Spydra journeys back to 15th century Florence Italy in an attempt to steal Leonardo Da Vinci's famous perpetual motion machine, not realizing his inventions only exist on paper.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 8
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English
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In an attempt to eavesdrop on all the world's communications satellites, Spydra decides to plant her "Polar Controller" satellite-controlling device at the North Pole.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 1
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English
Description
Spydra discovers a power plant being generated entirely by a moon stone brought back by the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission. She must have that stone, and nothing is going to stop her, certainly not some 30 years and 238,857 miles!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 6
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English
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Spydra's got a taste for Tut and nothing's going to satiate it except a trip back to the Nile River Valley. Destination Egypt, 1922. And her goal? To steal all of King Tut's treasures before the world even knows they exist.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 24
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English
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In order to force the world to buy her over-priced, worthless new car, the Arachna, Spydra heads back to visit Henry Ford and destroy his original Assembly Line. But Gadget Boy and Co. are close behind, stemming the damage, driving the world toward affordable automobiles.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 21
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English
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"Some evil force has removed fire from existence!" exclaims Dabble. And what other evil force could that be but Spydra? She heads back to the time of the cave people, in a vile attempt to steal all the methods of creating fire, thus, eliminating it forever, or until the world agrees to buy it back from her!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 20
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English
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Spydra goes back in time, to the court of Louis the Thirteenth, to steal the Queen's perfectly matched diamonds for her Sublimator. Boris has his own agenda; he's taken up inventing and needs the swords of the Three Musketeers for his Super Sword-Slinger.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 15
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English
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Spydra realizes what's missing from her life: laughter. But the only person who can make her laugh is Charlie Chaplin. So she travels back in time to 1920's Hollywood to kidnap him, bring him back to the present, and make him her own personal comedian-slave!
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 16
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English
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All Spydra needs to bring the world to its knees is a whole lot of the rare Humongous Fungus, which causes anyone who eats it to hiccup violently. Problem is, there isn't much of it left, because it comes from the Central and South American rainforests.
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Gadget Boy's Adventures in History volume 22
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English
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The news of an opal discovery in Australia excites Spydra: opal would be the perfect component for her 'Super-City-Destroying Spectro-Blaster!" She must go back in time and pillage the opal mine before it's discovered.
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