Comic Title: Metamorpho #12
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May/Jun 1967
On Sale Date: March 28, 1967 Newsstand Date March 28, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Superman #196, Page 32

Newsstand Date March 28, 1967
Source: House Ad, Sea Devils #35, Page 30

Copyright Date March 28, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: George Kashdan

Title: "The Trap of the Test-Tube Terrors"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Metamorpho (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Penciller: Sal Trapani
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Metamorpho Vol. 1 TPB (2005)

Feature Character(s)

• Metamorpho (last appearance in Metamorpho #11; next appearance in Metamorpho #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sapphire (Stagg) Mason (last appearance in Metamorpho #11; next appearance in Metamorpho #13)
• Simon Stagg (last appearance in Metamorpho #11; next appearance in Metamorpho #13)
• Java (last appearance in Metamorpho #11; next appearance in Metamorpho #13)

Villain(s)

• Franz Zorb (next appearance in Metamorpho #13)
• The Chemo-Robots (Hafnium, Osmium, Selenium, Strontium, Tantalum, and Thallium; next appearance in Metamorpho #13)

Other Character(s)

• Touchdown Tucker (a college president; no further appearances)
• Professor Kronski (a scientist; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Metamorpho #13.

Synopsis:
Simon Stagg holds a competition for scientists, offering a reward to anyone that can cure Metamorpho. Scientist Franz Zorb is awarded the prize and given access to Stagg's labs. Metamorpho is hopeful that Zorb will find a cure, but Stagg has secretly rigged the contest and selected the worst proposal.

Zorb enters Stagg's labs having deduced that Simon doesn't want Metamorpho to be cured. Using the advanced lab equipment, Zorb creates a group of Chemo-Robots which he then uses to destroy the mansion.

Metamorpho rescues Stagg, Sapphire, and Java, then pursues Zorb and the robots to State Tech college. Zorb is trying to steal a nucleonic moleculizer projector from Professor Kronski. The device is hidden inside a football. A fight over the football ensues between Metamorpho and the robots. Simon Stagg tries to kick the football away from Zorb, but only succeeds in activating the device.