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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published April-May 1976
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 0.30 USD
Pages 36
Editing Gerry Conway

Cover Details - "The Mad Menace of the Plutonium Man"

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Mercury; Platinum; Tin]; Plutonium Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Giordano (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors Tatjana Wood
Letters John Workman
Notes color and lettering credits via Carl Gafford. GCD errorlist 2010.06.08

18 page Metal Men story "Evil Is in the Eye of the Beholder"

Characters Metal Men [Gold; Iron; Lead; Mercury; Platinum; Tin]; Dr. Will Magnus; Isobel Sullivan (first appearance); General Caspar (first appearance); Dr. Rosen; Mr. Whittier; Plutonium Man (first appearance)
Synopsis Doc Magnus is receiving therapy in a government-operated mental facility after being brainwashed by the dictator of Karnia. Commissioned by the United States to build a robot capable of generating its own energy, he creates the giant Plutonium Man that is programmed with his own thoughts of, unfortunately, trample, raze, annihilate, and hatred of the Metal Men.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Gerber
Pencils Walt Simonson
Inks Walt Simonson
Colors Walt Simonson
Notes Return of "original" Metal Men. Interim events discussed in letter column. Colors credit from Carl Gafford, via the GCD Error List (27Jul2002)
Reprinted In Art of Walter Simonson, The (DC, 1989 series) #1