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Machine Man (Aaron Stack serial number Z2P45-9-X-51 or X-51 for short) is a fictional character an android superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe. The character was created by Jack Kirby for 2001: A Space Odyssey #8 (July 1977) a comic written and drawn by Kirby featuring concepts based on the eponymous Stanley Kubrick film and Arthur C. Clarke novel. Shortly thereafter Machine Man spun off into his own Kirby-created series.