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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published August-September 1976
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.30 USD
Pages 36
Editing Gerry Conway

Cover Details - The "X" Effect

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Tin; Platinum; Lead; Iron; Mercury]; Cadmium Robot; Plutonium Man
Genre Superhero
Pencils Walt Simonson
Inks Walt Simonson

17 page Metal Men story The "X" Effect

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Platinum; Lead; Iron; Mercury; Tin]; Carruthers (Soldier); Cadmium Robot; Tungsten Robot; Barium Robot; Chromium Robot; Major Admundson; General Caspar; Chemo (Cameo); Doc Magus; Nurse Isobel Sullivan; Johanna Rome; Liquid Oxygen Robot; The Plutonium Man; Liquid Helium Robot
Synopsis The Metal Men travel to Antarctica to battle The Plutonium Man.
Genre Superhero
Script Gerry Conway
Pencils Walt Simonson
Inks Walt Simonson
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes The title is not listed in the story, but it is written on the cover and was listed as the title at the end of the previous issue (#46).
Reprinted In Art of Walter Simonson, The (DC 1989 series) #1

1 page Airmail Alloys letters page

Script Gerry Conway
Letters Typeset

1 page Daily Planet promo (ad from the publisher)

Script Bob Rozakis
Letters Typeset
Notes Volume 76 Issue 2 for the Week of May 10th, 1976.