Metal Men #8

(June-July 1964)

Are You a Good Neighbor? (Table of Contents: 1)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks

Sheldon Moldoff

Letters

Ira Schnapp

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Billy loses! He didn't make it!

Genre

advocacy

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Playground of Terror! (Table of Contents: 2)

Metal Men / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Ross Andru (signed)

Inks

Mike Esposito (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Every ride is trying to destroy us!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Metal Men (Gold; Iron; Platinum; Tin; Mercury; Lead); Doc Magnus; Timmy; evil robots

Synopsis

The Metal Men put on a show for children, but Tina stops for one lonely boy who refuses to come. She discovers that Timmy is blind. His mother hopes that in the future chemical compounds will provide a cure. Timmy gets to spend the day with the Metal Men and Tina blurts out that Doc can probably cure his blindness. Timmy visits a rocket ready to launch and Tina insists on a short flight, but a cosmic turbulence hurls them through space. The Metal Men land on an eerie planet with a deserted amusement park where the "rides" are evil robots who killed their masters.

Reprints

• in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([November] 2007)
• in The Metal Men Archives (DC, 2006 series) #2 ([August] 2013)

Indexer Notes

Timmy is erroneously called Billy in the next issue. Continued in next issue.

Story across 25 pages in three parts of 5.67 pages, 5.67 pages, 5.67 pages, and 7 pages

Watch for the first 80 pg. giant Superboy Annual! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Giant Superboy Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

What's new? (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Detective Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

For the Very Best in Comics Reading (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Hawkman; Justice League / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Metal Facts and Fancies! / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Kanigher ?

Pencils

Ross Andru

Inks

Mike Esposito

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Arsenic is a deadly poison for both humans and...

Genre

non-fiction; math & science

Indexer Notes

Credits per Nick Caputo, February 2018. In-between page 12 and 13 of the main story sequence.

For the Very Best in Comics Reading (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Our Army at War; G.I. Combat / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.34 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

Robert Kanigher

Pencils

Ross Andru (illustration)

Inks

Mike Esposito (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Arnold Stob, Diane Eddy, Wayne Shook, Maureen Cooper, Terry Dun, Olga Fauch, David Lightburn, Roger Shaw, Ricky Liberty, Darlene Murray, Gail Hill, Leo Steiner, Gary McGath, Eric Heidman, Connie Graff, and Stanley Robbins.

On the page immediately following page 18 of the main story sequence.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Be My Guest (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Palisades Amusement Park Admission / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

100 Magnets (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

100 Magnets / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Astroforce (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Astroforce Space Armies / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

My Secret New Dynaflex Method (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

Mike Marvel Scientific Isometric Dynaflex System / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Task Force (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Task Force / advertisement / 1 page (report information)