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Cover: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito

Metal Men #9

Aug 1964 · DC · 0.12 USD
“The Robot Juggernaut! Book Two of "The Playground of Terror!"”

In "The Robot Juggernaut! Book Two of 'The Playground of Terror!'", the Metal Men and Billy make a desperate escape from the planet of terror, only to crash-land on a new world where towering Robot Juggernauts hunt them for scrap. With their survival hanging in the balance, the team must combine their metallic forms to fight back—while a mysterious comet shower lights up the sky, offering a glimmer of hope as they journey home. Written by Robert Kanigher and illustrated by Ross Andru with inks by Mike Esposito, this 1964 adventure features dynamic art and a thrilling escalation of the series' sci-fi stakes, all wrapped in a striking cover by Andru and Esposito.

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writer Robert Kanigher · artist Ross Andru · inker Mike Esposito · letterer Gaspar Saladino · cover Ross Andru, Mike Esposito

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artist Ross Andru
cover pencils Ross Andru
cover inks Mike Esposito

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The Metal Men and Billy escape from the planet of the Playground of Terror, and land on another planet where Robot Juggernauts try to melt them down. The Metal Men escape by alloying together and Billy's sight is returned by a comet shower on the way back to Earth.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).