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Issue Details

Issue #48
Published October-November 1976
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.30 USD
Pages 36
Editing Gerry Conway

Cover Details - "Eclipso Is Back!"

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Paltinum; Tin]; Eclipso
Genre superhero
Pencils Walt Simonson (signed)
Inks Walt Simonson (signed)
Colors Walt Simonson; Carl Gafford
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes Cover colors and letters credits from Carl Gafford via the GCD Error Tracker, July 2010. About the cover colors, Carl says, "Walt had submitted a color sketch for how he wanted the cover colored, so I copied it onto a cover repro, with the necessary shading and color indicators for the printer."

17 page Metal Men story "Who Is Bruce Gordon and Why Is He Doing Those Terrible Things to Himself?"

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Paltinum; Tin]; Dr. Will Magnus; Isobel Sullivan; Johanna Rome; Mona Bennet; Eclipso [Bruce Gordon]; Justice League of America (flashback, cameo) [Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Hawkman [Katar Hol; Carter Hall]; Flash [Barry Allen]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]]; Umbra (cameo)
Synopsis The Metal Men must stop Eclipso from raising the god, Umbra.
Genre Superhero
Script Gerry Conway (plot); Walt Simonson (plot); Martin Pasko (script)
Pencils Walt Simonson
Inks Walt Simonson
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Reprinted In Art of Walter Simonson, The (DC, 1989 series) #1