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 Headless Robots"
Pages: 25

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

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

Reprinted From:
Metal Men #14 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Metal Men (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Platinum (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Gold (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Mercury (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Lead (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Iron (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Tin (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)
• Nameless (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doctor Will Magnus (last appearance in Metal Men #13; next appearance in Metal Men #15)

Villain(s)

• Chemo (last appearance in Showcase #40; next appearance in Metal Men #25)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Professor Ramsey Norton (in flashback to Showcase #39)

Synopsis:
Chemicals in the ocean have revived Chemo. The chemical menace threatens a plane and a ship with flashes of liquid chemicals. The Metal Men protect the damaged transports, but Lead is destroyed in the process.

The Metal Men then return to Doc's lab. Tin, Gold, Iron, and Nameless throw themselves into a boiling cauldron, believing themselves failures. Only Tina and Mercury are left intact. Doc rebuilds the team, but does not activate them. He then sets out to find Chemo.

Tina and Mercury follow Doc. When their creator is captured, they return to the lab to revive the other Metal Men. Mercury wants to be the leader, so he does not reattach their heads which contain their responsometers.

When they arrive to confront Chemo, Mercury finally tries to reactivate them. Their heads get placed on the wrong bodies. The confusion leads to the destruction of Iron, Lead, and Gold. Tin and Nameless are revived and are able to sacrifice themselves to defeat Chemo. Later, Doc resurrects the entire team in the lab.