American Update: Pedal to the Metal Men
*DC: An overdue update to those unique Silver Age robots the Metal Men. In a perfect blend of wackiness, the stories of Bob Kanigher were complemented by the art of Andru and Esposito for an insane ride of way-out stories. Many issues new in between #4 & #56. A couple of Metal Men anecdotes if you will: at school I was an arts buff, but I’m sure I owe my one science qualification (chemistry O level) to reading the Metal Men. Plus, when Will was a kid (stretch your imagination here), his Mum hit him over the head with a copy of Metal Men in a shop to keep him quiet (it was the first thing that came to hand); she had to buy it and thus it became Will’s first comic, and the rest is history…