Metal Men #3

The cover of this September 1963 DC issue promises a book-length spectacular, and it delivers the drama right up front — a speech bubble warns "Doc! Platinum's out of control! Stop her before she destroys us all!" as a wildly elongated Platinum ensnares a green alien vessel with her ribbon-like metal form while a red robot figure looms in the foreground and Doc Magnus recoils below. Ross Andru and Mike Esposito bring a wonderful kinetic energy to the scene, with the Metal Men caught in genuine peril against the mysterious threat of "The Moon's Invisible Army!" It's a terrifically imaginative piece of early-sixties science-fiction comics craft that shows just why this series earned its own title so quickly.