Metal Men #2

DC's "second spectacular book" for the Metal Men arrives in July 1963 with a cover by Ross Andru and Mike Esposito that throws the team straight into chaos — two Metal Men are tumbling through a tremendous explosive burst while a red figure arcs overhead and a golden robot clings to a ladder below, as a crowd of yellow-helmeted robots looms at the right. The cover's speech bubbles say it all: Mercury blames Platinum for the mayhem, while a remorseful voice wonders how to stop the very menaces they invented, setting up Robert Kanigher's "Robots of Terror!" with genuine dramatic tension. It's a wonderfully kinetic 1963 DC adventure that captures the Metal Men at their most gloriously imperiled.