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Issue Details

Issue #6
Published February-March 1964
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Bob Kanigher

Cover Details

Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito

23 page Metal Men story "The Day Doc Turned Robot"

Characters Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Platinum; Tin (all as Metal Men); Dr. William Magnus; Helium; Oxygen; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon Monoxide; Chloroform (all as the Gas Gang)(first appearance and origin); comet being
Synopsis Doc is changed to a robot by cosmic rays and invents the Gas Gang, which the Metal Men have to destroy in self defense.
Genre super-hero
Script Bob Kanigher
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Mike Esposito
Reprinted in Metal Men (DC, 1973 series) #50 (February-March 1977) [heavily edited, as part of "Our Mentor, the Robot"]