Gerry Conway (w) Joe Staton (a)
All good things come to an end as the metal men return from the Moon having defeated the Missile men once more. Gold has restored the team through the use of Green lantern's ring and having saved the world again head for home. Problem is they are confronted by Doc Magnus's latest creation The Inheritor who has decided the Metal Men must be destroyed!
The battle ensues and as the team fight for their lives their saucer gets wrecked and they are forced to improvise in order to survive, The Inheritor is beaten off for now but the threat remains....
Doc Magnus is furious with The Inheritor for his actions and whilst this is all going on the Army have decided that the metal Men are their property despite the Doc having given them their freedom. Needless to say their landlady is none too pleased when the army turn up for their "property".
Needless to say the Metal Men tell the general to stuff his contract which gives them rights over Doc Magnus's creations and they escape seeking help. Eventually reaching the United Nations they talk to a certain Diana prince who they know is Wonder Woman as they make their bid to be citizens of the world.
Addressing the UN they are once again attacked by The Inheritor who is egged on by the General. Defeating their attacker with a large dose of mercury in his circuits they are finally given their due. The series ends with the Metal men becoming "Citizens of the World!
This comic was planned to be the last as sales were not good enough. Apparently they were just about breaking even. This was a time when DC was in trouble and an implosion was coming. I think I appreciate the Metal men more in retrospect than I did at the time. Even as I got older and had a bit more disposable income and comics were quite cheap in those days this title wasn't always, if ever on my list. My bad.
Although the Metal Men continued to appear in the DC Universe this was the end of the traditional comic and recent attempts to revive the team did not appeal. Sometimes things are best left in the past.
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