#06 Day Doc Turned Robot
#06 Day Doc Turned Robot
Published March 1964
Like many minor characters, no longer able to sustain comics of their own on a regular basis, The Metal Men have been handled in widely different ways by different writer/artist teams. A recent one purports to explain why their responsometers give them such human-like personalities, and why attempts to outfit them with new responsometers always made them cold and — well, robot-like. It seems they’ve somehow latched onto the personality patterns of recently-dead humans. In keeping with that theme, Doc Magnus himself was killed off and replaced with a robotic simulacrum. He is now Veridium, a metal which seems to have no exact counterpart in the real world.
Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito. The Day Doc Turned Robot, script by Bob Kanigher, pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Mike Esposito; Doc is changed to a robot by cosmic rays and invents the Gas Gang, which the Metal Men have to destroy in self defense. Letter to the editor from comics writer Roy Thomas. 36 pgs. $0.12. Cover price $0.12. World of Dinosaurs • Day Doc Turned Robot • • Sgt. Rock’s Prize Battle Tales • Amazing Alloys! • 100 Toy Soldiers $1.25 • 100 Toy SoldiersSpecial Christmas Quiz “Christmas in Many Lands!” • Our Fighting Forces; Our Army at War • Brave and the Bold • Flash; Green Lantern • Metal Scraps • Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Strange Adventures •
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