Comic Title: Showcase Presents Metal Men Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: September 24, 2008 Direct Market Date September 17, 2008
Source: Previews, #237

Direct Market Date September 24, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Peter Hamboussi

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Amazing School for Robots"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Metal Men (of Earth-1)

Writer: Otto Binder
Penciller: Gil Kane
Inker: Michael Esposito

Reprinted From:
Metal Men #31 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Metal Men (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Gold (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Lead (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Iron (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Mercury (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Platinum (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Tin (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)
• Nameless (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)

Supporting Character(s)

• Doctor Will Magnus (last appearance in Metal Men #30; next appearance in Metal Men #32)

Villain(s)

• Darzz (former dictator of Thrombb; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Silver, Osmium, Cobalt, Zinc, Gallium, and Iridia (substitute Metal Men; destroyed in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Doc Magnus creates a second team of Metal Men in case the first team is damaged. The second team which consists of Silver, Osmium, Gallium, Iridia, Zinc, and Cobalt are then trained by the original Metal Men. The new robots prove to be as good or better than their mentors and jealousy ensues. When Doc praises the replacements, the first team decides to quit.

Each of the original Metal Men take ordinary jobs, while Tina meets a disembodied intelligence from space named Darzz. She frees Darzz from an energy globe which then allows him to animate the inanimate. Darzz is secretly evil and uses Tina to take control of the replacement Metal Men.

The original team of Metal Men reunite to battle their replacements now under the control of Darzz. In combat, they exploit the weaknesses of the new robots and destroy them all. After Darzz has been defeated, Doc praises his original Metal Men and vows that he will not create another group to replace them.