- Script
- Bob Haney (credited)
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed as )
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed as )
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jim Aparo
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- To celebrate America's bicentennial, or 200th birthday, this antique train has been brought out of mothballs...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Metal Men [Platinum; Gold; Tin; Mercury; Lead; Iron]; Professor Charles Wing; Dolores Lake; Ed Fox
- Reprints
- in Bumper Batcomic (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #5
- in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #835 (26 de junio de 1976)
- in Batman et Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #3 (décembre 1976-janvier-février 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #12/1978 (31. Mai 1978), #12/1978 (31. Mai 1978), #12/1978 (31. Mai 1978)
- in Showcase Presents: The Brave and the Bold Batman Team-Ups (DC, 2007 series) #3 (2008 [February 2009])
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #1 ([June] 2012)
- in Batman Collection - Jim Aparo (Panini Deutschland, 2013 series) #2 ([August] 2013)
- in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([October] 2018)
Story told in 3 parts.
Part 1 - Hostages of History (6 pages).
Part 2 - Ultimatum for An Iron Horse (6 pages).
Part 3 - Tick-Tock for a Runaway (6 pages).
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-2564
- Feature Logo
Letters or comments from David Hsiung (issue 123 spells his name Hsing), Charles David Haskell, Clint Thomas, Andre Dubois, Jack Frost, Will Nash, Dan Karloff, Joe Molloy, Marty Mele, Tracy Pernell, Rob Jackson, Perry Wilson, Peter Royston, Ken Wolf, Herman J. Gitschier, Dave Verunni, Mike Romano, Claude Valotaire, Bruce Parrello, Mark Dooley, Stephen Perry, Thomas Russo, Rene Manuel, Duane Dougherty, Jay Zilber, Anthony Brooks, Richard Grizzle, John Erega and Tom Hunter.