Comic Title: Showcase Presents Metal Men Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: September 24, 2008 Direct Market Date September 17, 2008
Source: Previews, #237

Direct Market Date September 24, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Robot Eater from Metalas 5"
Pages: 23

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

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

Reprinted From:
Metal Men #29 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Metal Men (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Gold (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Iron (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Lead (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Mercury (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Tin (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Platinum (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)
• Nameless (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doctor Will Magnus (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #74; next appearance in Metal Men #30)

Villain(s)

• Torgola (a giant metal robot; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Helen Garin (no further appearances)
• Horbok and Ethos (a metal man from Metalas 5 and his robot; no further appearances)
• Three governors from Metalas One (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Metal Men appear at a stadium dedication ceremony while Doc Magnus investigates a meteor landing. The stadium is soon attacked by a giant robot named Torgola. The robot can read the thoughts of the Metal Men and consumes metal. Torgola also claims to have consumed Doc. The meteor that landed was actually the giant robot.

The Metal Men intentionally allow Torgola to consume them and are carried through space to the robot's homeworld Metalas 5. They find Doc and his girlfriend alive and well on the other side. They then meet Horbok, Torgola's creator who explains that the giant robot has gone rogue.

Horbok gives Doc a weapon to defeat Torgola then sends them back to Earth with another giant robot. The weapon fails, so Doc's girlfriend Dr. Garin returns to Metalas 5 for help. The Metal Men manage to defeat Torgola anyway when Lead fashions himself into a helmet that prevents the robot from reading their thoughts. Dr. Garin chooses to remain on Metalas 5 and is changed into a metal woman.