Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Metal Men Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: September 26, 2007 Direct Market Date October 10, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #7 (#223)

Direct Market Date September 26, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Day Doc Turned Robot"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Metal Men (of Earth-1)

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Michael Esposito

Reprinted From:
Metal Men #6 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

• Metal Men (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Platinum (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Gold (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Mercury (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Lead (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Iron (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)
• Tin (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doctor Will Magnus (last appearance in Metal Men #5; next appearance in Metal Men #7)

Villain(s)

• Gas Gang: Oxygen, Helium, Chloroform, Carbon Monoxide, and Carbon Dioxide (robots created by Doc Magnus; next appearance in Metal Men #10)
• A comet creature (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• A race of giant tin robots (in flashback to Metal Men #5)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Metal Men #5.

Synopsis:
Following their escape from the alien world inhabited by robots, the Metal Men and Doc Magnus travel back toward Earth. A meteor storm threatens the rocket forcing Doc to go outside and make repairs. When he gets back inside, he discovers the cosmic rays have changed him into a robot himself.

Losing his humanity, Doc turns against the Metal Men, whom he considers to be acting defective. Doc plans on dismantling them, but the robots preempt Doc's plan and trap him in his lab. The Metal Men work on a cure for Doc, but they are not successful.

While locked in the lab, Doc creates a new set of robots based on gases. The Gas Gang helps Doc escape and attack the Metal Men. The robots fight back, using their experiments to eventually defeat the Gas Gang with heat. Doc is caught in the trap too. The Metal Men rush him to the recovery room, where he regains his human form and is restored to normal.