Showcase #39

(July-August 1962)

The Deathless Doom! (Table of Contents)

Metal Men / comic story / 26 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Robert Kanigher

Pencils:

Ross Andru

Inks:

Mike Esposito

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Dr. Will Magnus; Metal Men [Gold; Lead; Iron; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Col. Henry Caspar; Dr. Ramsey Norton (death); Chemo (introduction)

Synopsis:

The Metal Men battle Chemo.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Metal Men (DC, 1973 series) #42 (February-March 1973) [see notes]
• in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #34 (March 1983)
• in The Metal Men Archives (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([July] 2006)
• in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007) [in black and white]

Indexer Notes

This story ends with a note to the readers that "This is the last trial issue of Metal Men," with a plea from the Metal Men themselves for the readers to respond. However, it wasn't quite true, as the very next issue of Showcase (#40) was another Metal Men issue.

For the reprint in issue #42 this story was edited down, leaving out page 7, the last 1/3 of page 12, the first 1/3 and last 1/3 of page 13, and page 18; and editing the final page to remove references to the readers responding if they wanted more Metal Men.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Metal Scraps / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Ross Andru

Inks:

Mike Esposito

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on the first tryout issue (#37) from Edward Fishman, Jerry Johnson, Melvin Herbers, Charles Wonka, Robert Carbonell, and John Fischer.