Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Metamorpho Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: October 5, 2005 Direct Market Date October 5, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #8 (#200)

Direct Market Date October 5, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 5, 2005

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Valley That Time Forgot"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted From:
Metamorpho #9 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Metamorpho (last appearance in Aquaman #30; next appearance in Metamorpho #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sapphire (Stagg) Mason (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #68; next appearance in Metamorpho #10)
• Simon Stagg (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #68; next appearance in Metamorpho #10)
• Java (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #68; next appearance in Metamorpho #10)

Villain(s)

• El Matanzas (a dictator; no further appearances)
• A race of alien robots (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Members of a South American army (no further appearances)
• A race of cave people (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Simon Stagg discovers a lost valley in South America containing advanced machines of unknown origin. He takes Metamorpho with him to investigate the machines. When they arrive in the valley, a race of cavemen attack. Metamorpho fights them off, while Stagg examines the machines. Simon deduces that they were created by an advanced race, but he doesn't know their purpose.

During Stagg's investigation, El Matanzas is deposed as dictator of a nearby country. El Matanzas flees to the lost valley. Posing as a scientist, the dictator helps Stagg with the machines, discovering them to be robots. Gaining control of the robots, El Matanzas tries to take back his country from those who deposed him.

The robots prove to be intelligent and plan to conquer mankind. They are really aliens who came to Earth and placed their consciences into machines to survive a deadly disease. Metamorpho is forced to battle the machines. He beats them by collapsing a bridge and dropping them into a river. El Matanzas is then taken into custody by South American authorities.