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Issue Details

Issue #39
Published July-August 1962
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Robert Kanigher
Notes Third Metal Men appearance.

Cover Details - "The Deathless Doom!"

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Mercury; Tin; Platinum; Lead; Iron]; Dr. Will Magnus
Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted in Metal Men (DC, 1973 series) #42; in Metal Men Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 [in black and white]

26 page Metal Men story "The Deathless Doom!"

Characters Dr. Will Magnus; Metal Men [Gold; Lead; Iron; Mercury; Tin; Platinum]; Col. Henry Caspar; Dr. Ramsey Norton (death); Chemo (introduction)
Synopsis The Metal Men battle Chemo.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Notes This story ends with a note to the readers that "This is the last trial issue of Metal Men," with a plea from the Metal Men themselves for the readers to respond. However, it wasn't quite true, as the very next issue of Showcase (#40) was another Metal Men issue. For the reprint in issue #42 this story was edited down, leaving out page 7, the last 1/3 of page 12, the first 1/3 and last 1/3 of page 13, and page 18; and editing the final page to remove references to the readers responding if they wanted more Metal Men.
Reprinted in Metal Men (DC, 1973 series) #42 [see notes]; in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #34; in Metal Men Archives, The (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Metal Men (DC, 2007 series) #1 [in black and white]

1 page Metal Scraps letters page

Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Letters typeset
Notes Letters on the first tryout issue (#37) from Edward Fishman, Jerry Johnson, Melvin Herbers, Charles Wonka, Robert Carbonell, and John Fischer.