Metal Men #1 has a guy in a spaceship reporting on some meteorites coming toward the ship.

They are only called meteorites when they are found in, or on, the ground. In space they are called meteoroids, or asteroids, although the asteroid name is usually used for ones larger than a kilometer.

Forget the issue number at the moment, but when they fight the Plastic Perils, Gold has the other metals contain the plastics, then using Platinum as a ladle scoops up some molten metal and dumps it on the plastics to melt them.
However, when scooping Tina worries about it reaching her melting point (around 1700 degrees). The rest of the metals have lower melting points. Heck Mercury's melting point is lower than the plastics. He's a liquid at room temperature! And yet, only the plastics are destroyed.

Of course Mercury presents numerous problems. He's red like mercury in a thermometor, but natural mercury is silvery, it was colored red by adding cinnabar. Also mercury is poisonous to touch, but no one apparently suffers from being in contact with Mercury.

The Plastic Perils appeared in issue 21.

Metal Men #27 has the Metal Men's heads cut off & inside can be seen tubes, wires & gears, which kinda contradicts the idea of the Metal Men using their powers (Tina becoming a thin wire, Gold being hammered very thin, Mercury turning into globs and moving around, etc., etc.). I believe later stories showed them to be pure metal (except for Mercury who is red instead of silver.)

Metal Men #48
Eclipso uses his black diamond blast to sever Mercury's arm off & it stays off until Doc Magnus 'welds' it back on. Excuse me??? Mercury... the liquid at room temperature metal... who, when in a hurry, is usually shown bouncing around as a bunch of separate globs that can reform into one form? Why couldn't he just merge with his severed arm? If it had been one of the other robots it would have made sense as they are solid metal & would need parts of them remelted on.

Also at one point Mercury even shows his stump and says, "solid metal". No, he's a liquid at room temperature.

Additionally, even though it's just his arm that's been severed two of the other robots carry him back to the hovercraft. It's not his leg that's been severed guys. He should be able to still walk.

In Metal Men #19 we find out there is a world orbiting Alpha Centauri that has giant centaurs on it. Amazingly, I don't think Adam Strange, or anyone from Rann, ever visited this world.

Who Is Bruce Gordon And Why Is He Doing Those Terrible Things To Himself? Metal Men #48
The cover has a big mistake. When the sun is eclipsed there is darkness with a crescent of light, but the cover shows the sun with a crescent of darkness instead.

Page 4 Panel 2. Walt Simonson drew an irregularly shaped chunk of metal eclipsing the bright spotlight. Not sure if that's a nit or not, but if anything of any shape eclipses a bright sphere of light one has to wonder why Eclipso doesn't pop up more often.

Also throughout this 2-part story when Bruce turns into Eclipso his clothes change from Bruce's clothes to Eclipso's costume & vice versa when he turns back, although, at least, one Eclipso story indicated that Eclipso wears Bruce's clothes until he gets his Eclipso costume to put on.

Mercury says, "That two-ton creep". I think he meant two-tone because of Eclipso's partially eclipsed face.

The Metal Men fly to Germany. Ummmm, wouldn't Germany want them to pass through customs first?

A library is robbed, the librarian dies, then the Metal Men are shown leaving. Did they even contact the police about the robbery & murder?

It's never explained how Eclipso gets from the US to Germany, to South America. I somehow doubt a known criminal like him could just buy a plane ticket.

Doc Mangus says the Metal Men's Responsometers are in their heads. However Metal Men #27 established that the Responsometers are in their backs.

Eclipso reads a stone tablet, presumably in the dialect of the inhabitants of Diablo Island (off South America near Machu Pichu), but he reads it in a kind of Old English.

The Dark God Cometh! Metal Men #49
Lead is melted by Eclipso's blast, but the other Metal Men reshape him into a lead glass lens.

Leaded glass is usually yellowish green, not purple.

Umbra sends out five killing beams (well, balls of light), each attuned to a specific human, cross each other's paths, ECLIPSING each other causing Bruce to turn into Eclipso. Yeahhhhhhhhh, riiiiiiiiiiight.

Also the beams hit with a big burst of light. So why didn't Eclipso turn back into Bruce?

Lead is melted by Eclipso's blast, but the other Metal Men reshape him into a lead glass lens.

Leaded glass is usually yellowish green, not purple.

If you are going to nit on the Metal Men's colors, why not go all out: Mercury is silvery, not red. (Weather thermometers had long ago replaced mercury with alcohol dyed red, but medical thermometers still used mercury.) Lead is gray, not purple. Iron is dark gray, not blue (although it does has a noticible blue-ish cast compared to other gray and silvery metals.

I did comment on Mercury's coloring on the Misc. DC Nits board. (I tried moving those nits over here, but Discus wouldn't let me.)

Whenever I've seen platinum (the metal) it is usually a much darker grey than the silvery white coloring of Platinum (the robot) would indicate.

And just to be extra nitpicky, shouldn't Platinum's nickname of Tina be spelled Tinu? ;-)

Woohoo! The Move function is working again!

One odd thing about the early Metal Men stories is the fact that they would break the fourth wall and refer to other adventures by issue number or mention the readers sending in suggestions for Nameless' name & stuff. As time went on they stopped doing this.
So is it a nit when they break the fourth wall or is it a nit when they stop???

The Man-Horse Of Hades! Metal Men #19
This is the second weirdest Metal Men story I've ever read.

Why is this called the Man-Horse of Hades? The centaur is originally from Ancient Greece, then Jove turned him into a giant & sent him to a world of giant centaurs orbiting Alpha Centauri. Unless the world of giant centaurs is named Hades the title is wrong.
Also the "Man-Horse" doesn't even show up until page 15. The first half of the issue deals with a girl who's worried about the prom.

The opening caption says, "Does a centaur like hay -- or hotcha?"
What the heck is hotcha?

Okay millennia ago the centaur rescued a nymph from a snake. It turned out the snake was really Jove in disguise (Just a hint, Jove. If you want to impress most women don't disguise yourself as a giant snake.) Ticked off Jove turns the nymph into a stone statue and the centaur into a giant and banishes him to another world until the nymph is no longer stone. In the present Aphrodite reminds Jove of his vow so Jove returns the centaur to Earth. The centaur arrives and thinks Platinum is the nymph he fell in love with.
Soooooooooo is Platinum the nymph 'come back to life' or did Jove intentionally send the centaur to the wrong place to cheat him out of finding his true love?
As one of those who hated the Post-Crisis idea of the Metal Men possessing the spirits of dead people I hope it's the latter, but then I feel sad for that poor nymph who doesn't get reunited with her true love.

The centaur kisses Platinum & gets upset because he feels he's been cheated & the nymph is still stone. The Metal Men restrain the centaur while Doc Magnus builds a giant centaurette android with Platinum's face. The centaur is happy and he & the android go back to the world of giant centaurs.
Wouldn't the android's kiss be metal or stonelike as well?

Birthday Cake For A Cannibal Robot! Metal Men #20
This is the weirdest Metal Men story I've ever read.

When asked what she thinks of the Batman TV show, Nameless says, "It's G - G - George".
Was 'It's George' an actual expression in the `60s?

Mercury refers to Batman & Robin as Bruce & Dick.
Soooooo does everyone in the DC universe know Batman & Robin's first names because of that TV show?

Platinum asks, "Who ever heard of a robot burping?"
Well, last issue the Metal Men who had been alloyed together in the previous issue were all burping. Guess none of them told Platinum.

Lead refers to the giant dismantled robot's head as free-floating. Actually it's hanging by some cables.

Dr. Yes*, who speaks in the stereotypical Chinese accent of lepracing Ls for Rs & vice velsa, manages to say "real responsometer" without any trouble.

* Dr. Yes is the robot twin of the Wonder Woman villain Egg Fu. Both Red Chinese robots were egg-shaped, wore glasses and had prehensile Fu Manchu mustaches.

Reaching Dr. Yes' headquarters** they see a giant birthday cake and decide to disguise themselves as giant candles.
Uh, yeah, sure, whatever...
Anyway the artists seem to have trouble remembering which robot was supposed to be where on the cake.
Page 17, Panel 1. Looking up at the cake, Lead, Gold, two we can't see, then Iron & Gold.
Page 17, Panel 3. Platinum is seen rising from the middle of the cake.
Page 17, Panel 5. Mercury is suddenly between Iron & Gold.
Page 18, Panel 1. Gold, Lead, Iron, Mercury.

** Really unintentional pun there.

The Metal Men vs. The Plastic Perils! Metal Men #21
Because of complaints from readers about too many robot menaces the Metal Men visit other cities to try & find some non-robot menaces. They visit Central City, Gotham City & Washington, DC only to have Flash, Batman & Wonder Woman handle all the threats they find. Then they consider other cities to visit, but decide against it because they all have superheroes.
Apparently they didn't know there were cities in the US & world that didn't have superheroes.

Okayyyyyyy, Platinum has scooped out a bunch of molten metal from the smelter to melt the Plastic Perils and is incredibly hot (pun not intended). A caption reads that Prof Bravo has been turned over to the police, although Platinum & Gold are shown still glowing.
Why is Gold glowing? He didn't touch the molten metal.

When Platinum touches what she thinks to be Doc Magnus (actually a cardboard cutout) it bursts into flames.
So where the cops nearby or did the Metal Men summon them? If they had to wait a while for the cops I'd have thought Platinum would have cooled down by now. (Again an unintentional pun.)

Anyway three panels after burning the cardboard with her touch, Platinum hugs Doc with no ill effects to Doc.
How did she cool down so fast?

The Startling Origin Of The Metal Men! Metal Men #27
The Metal Men are giving a show for some children when the bad guy shows up and chops off the Metal Men's heads with a laser-sword beam, then says he's going after Doc Magnus. The children are sad about the robots being destroyed* then Platinum's head starts telling them the origin of the Metal Men.
Uh, yeah, Platinum, but what about the danger to your beloved Doc?

* Yeah, they paid a whole quarter to see them perform and they hadn't done nothin' yet! ;-)

Since the Metal Men's responsometers are in their backs & not their heads, how is Platinum's head able to tell this story?

At one point Platinum refers to herself as Platinum Girl.
Oh, man, I'm glad they didn't end up using lame superhero names like that. Can you imagine it? Platinum Girl, Mercury Man, Gold Guy, the Tin Titan, Lead Lad & Iron Man! Yikes!

Platinum says the beast they were fighting seized the Jetaway (their hovercraft), but the artists didn't draw it that way.

Evil Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Metal Men #45
NNAN. In issue 40 Mr. Conan told the Metal Men that the brain surgery that Doc Magnus had received from his kidnappers was irreversible. Here Doc has a number of surgeries to correct things and by the end of the issue he's, more or less, back to normal. It's not necessarily a nit, because Conan may have believed it was irreversible (although the more likely answer is he was lying.)

Why is Whittier being given a hero's funeral? He was a foreign agent who infiltrated the US government and manipulated things for the mentally-unstable Doc Magnus to build the Plutonium Man which ran riot. Sure he sacrificed his life to run up to it and fired bullets at it that managed to damage the Plutonium Man's inner workings, but if it hadn't of been for Whittier there wouldn't be a Plutonium Man in the first place.

The "X" Effect Metal Men #47
Doc tells Johanna, "We don't call them robots around here".
That's a change from the old Doc Magnus who used to call them robots all the time.

Gold says, "A robot, bigger and more powerful than any I'd ever seen"
Except that Walt Simonson drew the LOX robot human-sized. The Plutonium Man, Dr. Yes & his robot, the android centaurette Doc built were all much bigger. (Heck one issue I haven't read featured robot dinosaurs & they were most likely bigger.)
As for more powerful the only thing he really saw was it running really fast, shatter Tin, grab Doc Magnus and leave.

Major Admundson adds, "And that $10 million dollars."
First it is redundant to have the dollar sign and the word dollars. It should have been either 'And that $10 million.' or 'And that 10 million dollars.'
Secondly it was 10 Billion dollars, not a mere 10 million.

Metal Men #47
In this issue the Metal Men need defreezing units to keep them from freezing solid, however in Metal Men #6 they were in space without any such devices.

Our Mentor, The Robot Metal Men #50
Plot: Because of the Dreaded Deadline Doom the majority of this issue is from Metal Men #6 with a new beginning & ending. Doc Magnus tells of the time cosmic rays turned him into a robot and he created the Gas Gang.

The Metal Men are talking in space. Now possibly they are simply broadcasting what they are saying via their responsometers like some kind of radio*, but if that is what they are doing it would make a nit of any time we see the Metal Men talking or whispering when they should be quiet. (Not that I can remember any instances off-hand, but it's something to look for.)
* Issue 56 does state that they do have somekinda radio thing.

In space Mercury stretches out planning to blind the comet creature with mercury, but the creature smashes right through him because he's solid. Gold reminds him that there is no heat in space.
As I understand it if the sun is shining on one side of an object in space it can get quite hot, so Gold's statement is not exactly correct. (Although given that Mercury shattered he probably wasn't in the sunlight at the time.)

Given that the Metal Men's rocket is heading to Earth & the now robotized Doc Magnus forbade the Metal Men to rescue the NASA rocket captured by the comet creature one wonders how they were able to get back to their own rocket so easily. Once Lead and Mercury leapt off the ship shouldn't they have been left behind?

Trying to figure out ways to return Doc to normal the Metal Men try a heat conducting test. Gold is plugged in and his coils surround Lead, Mercury & Iron. As the test is going along the three metals melt at the same rate.
Problem is Mercury is a liquid at room temperature & should have turned to steam first. Lead would have melted next.
Also Iron's melting rate is higher than Gold's. Iron shouldn't be affected at all.

Page 11, Panel 3. Doc's metal skin is pink.

--Killing Me Softly With His Scream! Metal Men #51
Okay, to get to Vox's headquarters Gold Lead & Mercury are disguised as Vox' Cyboriginals. Problem is when they reveal themselves it appears that the clothing & human skin color were also part of the Metal Men, but intentionally changing color* is not one of their abilities.
* As opposed to a colorist screwing up.

General Craven says that the Metal Men's shapechanging is controlled by a mini-computer in their heads.
Either he wasn't paying attention when Doc explained it to him or Doc lied since the Responsometers are usually in the Metal Men's backs.

Doctor Strangeglove And The Brain Children Metal Men #52
Plot: Doc's girlfriend, Johanna, has been getting letters from someone claiming to be her nephew Dennis. However Johanna's sister, who had been going to an experimental government prenatal facility, had died before giving birth a year earlier when the center's experimental nuclear reactor exploded.

Page 2, Panel 5. Part of Gold is colored yellow.

Johanna tells Doc that since he wasn't around to help her with her problem she went to General Caspar & she hasn't heard from him in two weeks.
Couple of problems here.
Why did she go to see General Caspar? Why would she think he could do anything about some nut sending letters pretending to be her year-old nephew?
The two-week time span is also odd. Issues 48 & 49 had Johanna with the Metal Men looking for Eclipso. Issue 50 has Doc dropping off Johanna, fixing Lead, then going to the Army base which leads into 51 which, at most, couldn't be more than just a couple of days (more likely 1 day).
Now it's possible that Johanna talked to General Caspar while Doc & the Metal Men were in Antarctica in issue 47, but the fact she didn't say anything in issues 48-50 about this seems odd considering how upset she is here.

Page 9, Panel 4. Parts of Gold are colored yellow, green & brown. (Although the colorist probably thought the lines of the part colored brown were part of the guard's pocket & not Gold.)

To fly from the Pentagon to Babyland, Platinum & Iron are shaped like a jet engine.
Okay shaped like a jet engine, no problem, but how the heck is Iron producing the flame that's giving them thrust?

The Hand That Shocks The Cradle Rules The World! Metal Men #53
Splash page. No exhaust is coming out of Iron*, so it looks like Doc, Platinum & Iron are falling from the sky, but the next few pages the exhaust is back.
* Funny how something that's not a nit becomes a nit, isn't it?

Last issue the Brain Children shorted out Lead's responsometer. This issue Doc says that Strangeglove told him the Brain Children's powers won't reach through Lead.
1. So how the heck did they short out his responsometer last issue?
2. No Strangeglove did not tell Doc that.

Doc Magnus refers to Platinum as a robot.
So much for Doc's statement about not calling them robots in issue 47.

After The Ending Metal Men #54
Plot: The Metal Men decide to leave Doc Magnus and make it on their own, meanwhile the Missile Men are back.

Gold says, "Doc's been in charge of us for as long as we remember. "
What about that time period where Doc disappeared/was in a coma/was kidnapped by Karnak/was recovering from the brain surgery he received in Karnia? He wasn't in charge of you then.

From this issue to the last (#56) Johanna is called Joanna.

Caption reads, "As Platinum stiffles a decidedly unrobotic sob"
Stifles, not stiffles.

Robot Z-1 & his Missile Men first appeared in Metal Men #1 & the story was reprinted in issue 44. In 44 they were colored green, here they are silver. Was the coloring in 44 wrong?

Gold says the Batman told him about Green Lantern & his weakness.
1. Why would this even come up.
2. Given all the villains who know GL's weakness I'm surprised it's not common knowledge.

The Master Machinations Of The Missile Men! Metal Men #55
It's a good thing Z-1 decided to leave Gold alive to witness his defeat of humanity otherwise the Metal Men never would have been repaired.

Okay, last issue Z-1 altered the Metal Men's responsometers so instead of hearing what Green Lantern really said, they heard him threaten to destroy them. This issue GL's power ring is explaining this to Gold (GL is unconscious), but the ring says that the Metal Men heard, "Your kind has spoiled the Earth for man long enough!" when last issue the text read "for men" not man.

Why is Gold cutting open Iron's head to repair his responsometer? The responsometers are in the Metal Men's backs.

To reactivate the Metal Men's responsometers Gold dumps them into a vat of molten metal.
Huh?
First off the Metal Men are usually reactivated in the Robot Recovery Room, which I believe uses radiation.
Secondly Mercury is a liquid at -38.87 C. A vat of molten metal should fry him, especially since this vat is in a steel mill all the Metal Men should be in danger of being smelted down.

Caption reads, "As he guided the saucer craft coast west to south-city"
LOL. Obviously what was meant was `south-west to Coast City'. *snicker*

Amazingly the Jetaway is able to fly into space. (Z-1's base is on the moon.)

Z-1 explains to Platinum how he escaped from the trap he was in in Metal Men #1.
I'm not positive, but in a letter column I saw a reference to a sequel to the Missile Men story, so shouldn't Z-1 be explaining how he survived however they stopped him in that issue?

To get close to Z-1 the Metal Men shape themselves to look like the Missile Men.
Surprisingly they manage to change their colors as well.

The Inheritor Kills! Metal Men #56
The Army wants the Metal Men because they paid for Doc Magnus' experiments and they get whatever he discards.
1. Funny how this never came up when the Metal Men were on their own for years. Heck in The Brave And The Bold #113 Gotham City hired the Metal Men to replace Batman & in The Brave And The Bold #121 the Metal Men are guarding a trainload of American treasures, so it's not like the Metal Men were hard to find.
2. They really shouldn't have any right to Platinum as she was invented for a museum.

Iron forms a giant hammer to smash a roof, but the majority of the hammer is grey, not blue.

The Metal Men tell Diana Prince that Batman told them a lot about her including the fact that Diana is Wonder Woman.
Geeze that Batman is a blabbermouth, isn't he?

All stories reprinted in Showcase Presents Metal Men Volume One

Oddly enough, the cover they use for this collection is from The Brave And The Bold #55, which was a team-up with the Atom (who is also shown) & is the only cover in the collection not drawn by regular Metal Men artists Ross Andru & Mike Esposito.

The Flaming Doom! Showcase #37
IIRC there was a slip-up & Showcase needed a story in a hurry & writer Robert Kanigher & artists Ross Andru & Mike Esposito produced the first Metal Men story over a weekend. Reading some of the nits in this story I can believe it. ;-)

The monster attacks a skyscraper, & sets it on fire & the caption reads, "leaving a mile-long torch behind it".
Long? Wouldn't high be more accurate? Of course one does wonder how a skyscraper of metal & concrete can burn like that, as well?

Dr. Magnus says, "This creature's fantastic powers of heat and cold point to a chemical origin -- probably radioactive!"
I didn't know radiation could be created chemically.

NNAN, but on the side of the bridge is a sign reading "Bridge closed for repairs".
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have this sign where drivers can see it, not boats? Admittedly there could be a road running alongside the river, but in that case street signs would still make more sense.

Magnus says, "If we fail -- it will only be because we won't come back from this mission, colonel!"
Errrr, wha? I can see failing as a reason why they won't come back, but how does not coming back lead to failure.

The rocket-disc can be operated "by remote control using the kinetic energy of thought commands!"
Dr. Kanigher, Ph.D. in Comic Book Science.

Page 12, Panel 6. The caption reads, "As Iron, the muscle man of the metal band, lowers the massive Lead cannonball"
Looks more like lifting or at least holding.

At the end of the story General Caspar tells the readers that if they want to see the Metal Men again to send a card.
However the decision to run some more Metal Men stories must have been made before any cards arrived since they appear in the next issue.

The Nightmare Menace! Showcase #38
Doc creates duplicate Metal Men, but they don't behave like the originals, checking his notes he notices that there was intense aurora borealis activity at the time of their creation.
Must have been a long period of activity since Tina had been built before the story started, but the rest only when Doc needed to create something to fight the nuclear nemesis.

Oddly enough, Mercury, Tina & Lead partially returned to their usual form after they 'died' last issue.

At the beginning of the story the evil scientist is called Von Vroon, but at the end of the story he's called Von Vroom.

The Deathless Doom! Showcase #39
Not really a nit, but it's kind of funny to read the opening caption say, "the most fantastic threat the unique Metal Men have ever battled". It's only their third adventure!

NANJAO. For the first time in this series the term responsometer is used. Prior to this it was used in Kanigher's G.I. Robot series.

Chemo burns a hole in the ground to a pocket of natural gas which jets up at intervals. Doc & Tina go into the hole where they find a series of caverns honeycombed with gas jets.
Somehow I don't think that's possible.

Chemo gets trapped by two gas jets & is "imprisoned in an eternal tomb!"
Errrr, these gas jets come & go at intervals, even if they can trap Chemo it's just a matter of time before they stop & 'he' escapes.

The Day The Metal Men Melted! Showcase #40
This issue it's said that Chemo was disintegrated by the gas jets instead of just being trapped. NNAN as it could have happened between pages 25 & 26.

Chemo somehow reforms when lightning strikes the area where he was disintegrated.

Chemo somehow turns Doc radioactive as well as turning him into a metal.

After being doused with cosmic matter Doc is turned back to normal & the radioactivity disappears.

Rain Of The Missile Men! Metal Men #1
Apparently it was common at the time for DC to leave off the issue number on first issues & this is no exception. Kind of hard to believe this practice existed given how popular first issues would become later thanks to collectors.

Tina cries in this issue, although in Showcase #37 Doc said Tina didn't have a tear response.

When trying to seal the gas tank fire both Tin & Lead make reference to their boiling points rather than their melting points.

Z-1 builds a telescope that can see Platinum on Earth although I would assume that Space Junkyard 9 is in another solar system.

Robots Of Terror! Metal Men #2
A jeweler's daughter is accidentally locked inside a special new vault. It has an inside lock but the jeweler can't slide the combination under the door so she can work it.
Errrrr, what about using the outside combination to open the door?

The combination is "L-6, L-2, R-7, L-3".
Don't combinations usually go one way then the other? I suppose it's not impossible to go the same direction twice, but it seems unusual.

When the door is open the internal combination dial is missing.

Also where it should be seems a little high for the girl to reach even if she did have the combination.

The Moon's Invisible Army! Metal Men #3
Last issue Tina sacrificed herself to save the world & the readers were asked to send postcards if they wanted Tina back. This issue begins with an avalanche of letters demanding Tina back.
Comic book lead time being what it is there wouldn't have been enough time for the letters to arrive before this issue had to be ready for the printers.

Flashback to the previous issue has some different dialogue.

Using a "unique thought-force X power" the rocket flies through an image -field of the moon to get to the moon, then through an image-field of Earth to get to the Earth, although at the end they are unable to get to the moon because cosmic rays are causing the image-field to buckle.
??? Wha???

Amoeba from the moon, where they were dormant, grow to giant size on the Earth.
Yeah, sure, right...

Menace Of The Mammoth Robots! Metal Men #5
Flashback to last issue has different dialogue.

The Day Doc Turned Robot! Metal Men #6
This is actually the second time Doc turned "robot". The first time was Showcase #40.

Gold says, "Doc! -- Your spacesuit! -- Perforated by cosmic rays!"
If cosmic rays were capable of punching holes in Doc's spacesuit how did he make it back inside the ship?

Mercury shattered when he tried to stop the comet creature because he's a solid in space, but when the other Metal Men collect his pieces the sound effect reads, "Slurp-glurp" which sounds like a liquid.

NANJAO. This seems to be the first story where Lead starts speaking with -- uhh -- pauses.

Oxygen (one of the Gas Gang) causes the Metal Men to rust.
Not all those metals rust. IIRC when they reprinted part of this story in issue 50 they added that Gold & Platinum were tarnishing instead.

The Living Gun! Metal Men #7
Living doesn't seem to be the right word given that it's composed of robots.

Tina says Doc has been bending over a hot bunsen burner for 48 hours.
You'd think he'd have fallen asleep at some point.

Doc says, "there were no steam paddles during her time because steam hadn't been invented".
I didn't think steam needed to be invented. ;-) (Yeah, he meant steam paddles. Pick, pick, pick.)

While Doc is recovering from the last adventure he's visited by an Ava Woods who hopes he can judge the "Miss Model" beauty contest. Doc says, "You'll win--with or without me, Ava!"
Isn't a judge dating one of the contestants frowned upon ?

A solar prominence breaks free of the sun & is bombarded by cosmic dust, drenched by a meteor shower, & blasted by an exploding star.
1. They're called meteor's in an atmosphere, not space.
2. That exploding star is drawn way too big to be in our solar system.

Tina joins the beauty pageant by just showing up.
Nice to see the organizers have high standards for competition.

The Playground Of Terror! Metal Men #8
The Metal Men's rocket is caught by a cosmic turbulence & when they are free of it one of them says, "we're far from our own galaxy!"
How exactly would they know? (From the artwork it looks more like they are near Saturn.)

One of them says, "Planet ahead -- not on our chart!"
Where did they get a chart of another galaxy?
Also the "planet" looks awfully close to a ringed planet so moon would be the more likely assumption.

The Robot Juggernaut! Metal Men #9
This is also said to be "Book Two of "Playground of Terror!", but they are out of that setting by page 4, the rest of the story is set on another planet with different robots.

The planet from last issue is called a planetoid here.

Three robots grab hold of the Metal Men's rocket.
Two of them don't appear to have 'hands' capable of doing that.

Revolt Of The Gas Gang! Metal Men #10
The caption identifies last issue as "Metal Men #9, Sept-Oct."
Actually it was August-September, this issue is October-November.

Doc refers to the Solar Brain as the Solar Giant.

Revenge Of The Robot Reject The Brave And The Bold #55
The only story in the collection not written by Kanigher & it shows.

The Floating Furies! Metal Men #11
Doc makes a new responsometer for Tina to make her act like a real robot.
You'd think after the failures of the duplicate Tinas in Showcase #38 & Metal Men #3 he might just accept that a robot Tina is not a good thing, but nooooooo.

NANJAO. I just assumed that the top of the Metal Men's head were the tops of their heads, but in this issue Gold removes his 'skullcap' to reveal he has a head of 'hair' underneath.

NNAN. The Floating Furies are some kind of robotic mines, although who built them & why is not revealed. Oddly enough, these supposed technological devices know of the god Neptune & even get aid from him.

Lead asks, "Why does it always take you women-robots longer to change?
As far as I can tell Lead's only met 2 shape-changing female robots, which isn't a very big sample size.

Lead is fired as a spear & somehow manages to boomerang around.

Shake The Stars! Metal Men #12
An editor's note listing the first appearance of the Missile Men incorrectly mentions issue 7 instead of 1.

In the first Missile Men story uncontrollable robot Z-1 had been deposited on a junkyard, implying that he was a rogue robot. Here however the Missile Men appear to be a group of evil robots.
Possibly there were other uncontrollable that took over the society that got rid of Z-1, but it seems to be a change in the backstory.

Raid Of The Skyscraper Robot! Metal Men #13
NANJAO. The first appearance of Nameless. For some reason later editors & maybe writers didn't like her & avoided using or referring to her. Possibly because she wasn't a unique metal (she was tin like Tin), or because she didn't look like a sexpot like Tina they just didn't want to have her appear in their stories. Eventually in the '80s they gave her the Joe Carey treatment, brought her back just to kill her off.

This story establishes that the jetaway (the saucer shaped vehicle they usually traveled in) can fly into space.
Oddly enough there doesn't seem to be any kind of protective covering that keeps the air in when it does so.

The Headless Robots! Metal Men #14
Caption reads, "At the high school of science"
High school of science? Sounds a little pretentious. Or is it a high school in a town called Science?

NANJAO. This story establishes the Metal Men's responsometers are in the robots' heads. I guess I just assumed that the later story putting the responsometers in their bodies was always the way it was done.

Gold forms a net to catch a falling airplane.
I should think the weight would tear through the soft metal.

The flashback to Showcase #39 doesn't have Chemo's creator as gaunt & aged as he originally looked.

All stories reprinted in Showcase Presents Metal Men Volume 2

Robots For Sale! Metal Men #16
Cute gag. Doc Magnus has created some animated toys to sell for a charity. The toys are characters from other books written/edited by Robert Kanigher. Captain Storm, Enemy Ace, Sgt. Rock, Haunted Tank, Capt. Cloud, Wonder Woman & The War That Time Forgot.

Only the War That Time Forgot toy, a pteranodon carrying off a sub lacks an identifying tag like all the other toys.

A brain damaged child is playing with Mercury.
Yesssssssss... never mind that mercury is toxic.

Cleo says to Doc, "How me how mad you are about me... honey?"
Wha?

I Married A Robot! Metal Men #17
Gold says that Lead will yank the planes away from the giant web, but it's Iron who goes up to do it.

Platinum finds a Gypsy cook book that tells how to make a love potion for a human to fall for a robot.
Can't be a very old cookbook.

All the people who were kidnapped from Earth by the robot black widow spider, somehow are able to fit onto Doc Magnus' space jetaway.
Since it didn't seem to be much bigger than the normal jetaway (which can also fly in space) that's amazing.

The Dinosaur Who Stayed For Dinner! Metal Men #18
The perspective on the cover is off. Lead, farthest away from the reader looks too big.

Page 14, Panel 4. Tina says, "Poor robot... you must have smashed all its systems into gone!"
Wha?

NANJA amusing comment. Doc Magnus says, "We're late for our benefit show at the ward for violent comics writers!"

Rage Of The Lizard! Metal Men #23
The Sizzler has turned her evil inventor, Prof. Snakelocks, into a robot. He says that you can't arrest a robot & Doc Magnus says, "It's true! Jails are for humans! The authorities won't keep you!"
Wha? Well, if he is a robot that has done evil then I think the authorities would want to dismantle him so he can't do any more evil. Actually this makes it easier for the government since as a human Snakelocks entered the country as a diplomat & has diplomatic immunity.

Return Of Chemo-- The Chemical Menace! Metal Men #25
In issue 22 Prof Snakelocks invented the Sizzler, she fell in love with Doc & has been with the group since. Last issue Doc was trying to put a responsometer in her. The beginning of this issue he's still working on her when she explodes & is, apparently, destroyed.
Not really a good way to write out a character the author has, apparently, become bored with.

Chemo has severed a section of air hose to a bathysphere, gold turns part of himself into a pipe so the scientists can get air.
either the air hose is permanently open to the interior (unlikely since a leak would cause water to flood) or there is some kind of shut-off valve, so how would the scientists know that the air hose has been reconnected & reactivate the intake?

The Startling Origin Of The Metal Men! Metal Men #27
Retelling of the Metal Men's origin has some differences in dialogue & art, of course.

At first I considered it a nit when after they were destroyed it omitted Doc's trying to create replacement robots who lacked their distinctive personalities, but realized that since the Metal Men themselves were telling the tale they would have no memory of that.

You Can't Trust A Robot! Metal Men #28
To stop a getaway car Platinum weaves herself into a net & anchors herself to some lampposts.
Don't lampposts crumple when hit?

Page 3, Panel 3. Mercury's word balloon is pointing to the crook he's clobbering.

Doc Magnus made duplicate Metal Men to hand over to the army so they could study robots with evil responsometers & devise strategies.
However that doesn't explain why he made them look like the Metal Men (outside of plot reasons, of course). For that matter the experimental G.I. Robot in WWII (Star Spangled War Stories #103) had a responsometer, so why does the army need to study robots designed by Magnus?

The evil Platinum wraps a web around the good Lead, Iron & Mercury & traps them.
Okay, I'll give you Lead & Iron, but Mercury? The metal who's a liquid at room temperature? The Mercury who could flow out of, or turn himself into globules, being trapped in a net???

A crook hit Doc in the head with a gun giving him amnesia. At the end of the story a bullet grazing his head gives him back his memory.

The Amazing School For Robots! Metal Men #31
Page 19, Panel 2. The caption reads "Following a newspaper story about the five famed Metal Men at their new jobs".
Guess the newspapers don't think of Nameless as one of the Metal Men.

Funny how Doc thinks Darzz has warped the second Metal Men's responsometers so much he can't repair them. He makes this statement just after the regular Metal Men destroy them & hasn't even examined their responsometers.

The "Metal Women Blues"! Metal Men #32
Page 11, Panel 1. The caption reads, "female robot Amazons".
Isn't female Amazons redundant?

Recipe To Kill A Robot! Metal Men #33
No such recipe is given.

First issue of "The New, Hunted Metal Men!"
Yikes! Why they felt the need to do this boggles the mind. I assume sales must have been slipping, but still...

The reason why they're suddenly being hunted by police is that Doc Magnus had given them new responsometers & increased their powers, which they had trouble controlling & people thought they turned evil and suddenly authorities were shooting to kill.
Which given earlier stories where duplicate Metal Men had actually committed crimes, but didn't merit this response is ridiculous.

Nameless doesn't appear, or even get mentioned. (IIRC it'll be sometime in the early to mid-80s before the writers finally bring her back, explain what happened, & kill her off for good.)

Death Comes Calling! Metal Men #34
Last issue, after their inventor was put into a coma by the same experiment that gave them their new, uncontrollable powers, the Metal Men were taken by Colonel Magnus (Doc's brother) to USASS (United States Army Special Services) Headquarters. This issue they go to USAMI (United States Army Military Intelligence) HQ & it's the same place.

A brand new Doom Patrol comic will debut on August 5,it will also have a Metal Men back-up series in it.I can only hope that it'll be as impressive as the terrific Metal Men miniseries comics from a few years ago.