Metal Men #28
(October-November 1967)

DC, 1963 Series
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Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
bi-monthly
On-sale Date
1967-08-22
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 (credited) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

You Can't Trust a Robot! (Table of Contents)

Metal Men / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ross Andru (signed as Andru)
Inks
Mike Esposito (signed as Esposito)
Colors
?
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Metal Men: Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Platinum; Tin
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher who edited this issue.

You Can't Trust a Robot! (Table of Contents: 1)

Metal Men / comic story / 21.5 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Kanigher
Pencils
Ross Andru (signed as Andru)
Inks
Mike Esposito (signed as Esposito)
Colors
?
Letters
Joe Letterese ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Metal Men were the most unique robots
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Metal Men: Gold; Iron; Lead; Dr. Will Magnus; Mercury; Platinum; Tin
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher who edited this issue.

Story across 23 pages in three parts of 5.5, 5.5, and 10.5 pages.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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 Jeff Manguno, David Henry, Dina Jackson.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Cap's Hobby Hints / activity / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
Pencils
Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
Inks
Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)
Colors
?
Letters
Henry Boltinoff (signed as Henry Boltinoff)

Job Number
6558
First Line of Dialogue or Text
I'm going to make a parachute to hang from the ceiling with all my planes!
Genre
non-fiction
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Idea from Ted Sherman, Livingston, N.J.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Direct Currents / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. You Can't Trust a Robot!
    Metal Men
  2. 1. You Can't Trust a Robot!
    Metal Men
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Metal Scraps
  4. 3. ["I'm going to make a parachute to hang from the ceiling with all my planes!"]
    Cap's Hobby Hints
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Direct Currents
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Merlin Haas
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jason Sacks
  • Jim Stangas
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore