Showcase
#40
(September-October 1962)
DC,
1956 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Bi-Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1962-07-31
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Robert Kanigher (editor)
Issue Notes
4th Metal Men appearance.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
On-sale date from copyright registration.
The Day the Metal Men Melted!
Metal Men / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Take Tina away before I contaminate her!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Will Magnus; Iron; Mercury; Platinum [Tina]; Tin; Gold; Lead
- Reprints
-
in Marvila, la Mujer Maravilla (Editorial Novaro, 1955 series) #97 (1 de octubre de 1963) -
in The Metal Men Archives (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006), #1 ([September] 2006) - in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([November] 2007)
-
The Day the Metal Men Melted!
Metal Men / comic story / 24 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Keep Tina away!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dr. Will Magnus; Platinum [Tina]; Gold; Mercury; Lead; Iron; Tin; Chemo; Col. Henry Caspar
- Synopsis
- The Metal Men battle Chemo after he turns Doc Magnus into a radioactive giant.
- Reprints
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #34 (March 1983)
- in The Metal Men Archives (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
- in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([November] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Story in three parts with same overall title: unnumbered part one (7.67 pages), Part Two (7.67 pages), Part Three (8.67 pages); continued in Metal Men #1; Doc Magnus is repeatedly referred to as Doc Evans.
[no title indexed]
Giant Batman Annual; Giant Lois Lane Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
[no title indexed]
What's the Difference Between / comic story / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Metal... Mineral...
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
On the page immediately following page 16 of the main story sequence.
[no title indexed]
Metal Scraps / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- ? (as Metal Men)
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear editor: I thought the first Metal Men adventure was good!
- Characters
- Metal Men [Gold; Mercury; Tin; Platinum [Tina]; Lead; Iron]
Indexer Notes
Letters from Fred Bronson, Lester Phillips, Miguel A. Morales, Larry Brown, and Jeff Wetmore.
On the page immediately preceding page 17 of the main story sequence.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Day the Metal Men Melted!
Metal Men -
1.
Bike Bonanza of Big Buys
Honor House Products -
2.
The Day the Metal Men Melted!
Metal Men -
3.
Tootsie Roll Makes History!
Tootsie Roll -
4.
Task Force
Task Force -
5.
["Batman and Robin's most fantastic foes!"]
Giant Batman Annual; Giant Lois Lane Annual -
6.
["I'm a fudge judge and I submit as evidence that all in..."]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
7.
["Metal... Mineral..."]
What's the Difference Between -
8.
["Curious coins! Odd paper money!"]
Littleton Coins -
9.
["Dear editor: I thought the first Metal Men adventure was good!"]
Metal Scraps -
10.
["Do you have x-ray eyes?"]
Tootsie [all other candies] -
11.
["Krypton, the world where Superman was born, lives again!"]
Giant Superman Annual -
12.
["Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey."]
Palisades Amusement Park Admission -
13.
["Learn to play guitar the Chet Atkins way!"]
Chet Atkins Method -
14.
Frontier Cabin
Frontier Cabin -
15.
["Boys, girls, men, women..."]
Wallace Brown Greeting Cards -
16.
["Skinny or fat, 15, 20, 30 or 40 years of age..."]
American Body Building Club -
17.
100 Toy Soldiers $1.25
100 Toy Soldiers
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- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Dan Kocher
- Donald Dale Milne
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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