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 Trap of the Test-Tube Terrors"
Pages: 23

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

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

Reprinted From:
Metamorpho #12 (1967)

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.