Metal Men #18

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Synopsis

A giant robot dinosaur menaces New York City. Despite their best efforts, the US Army are powerless to stop it. Strangely, the mechanical monster seems focused solely on the Metal Men, and their inventor, Doctor Will Magnus. After a brief spat with Mercury, and, once again, feeling spurned by Magnus, Platinum attempts to sacrifice herself, to buy the team time to get away. Magnus orders Lead to rescue Platinum. Lead rolls himself up into a large pipe, to provide Platinum a safe channel to run through. Platinum, though, refuses to run back to the Metal Men. Lead is batted away by the dinosaur's tail, prompting Iron to launch himself against the creature.Iron ricochets off the dinosaur's chest, and rebounds into Tin and Mercury. Gold transforms himself into a whirlwind of gold dust, providing Magnus with enough cover to get to Platinum, and convince her to rejoin the team. Once the team has regrouped, they continue to flee, en masse, from the dinosaur. With the dinosaur closing in on them, Platinum recalls the recent chain of events that led to their dilemma. Magnus, Gold, Iron, Lead, Tin, and Mercury were playing cards. They were so engrossed in their game that they were completely ignoring Platinum and Nameless. Platinum took Nameless out for a makeover, but upon their return, neither Magnus, nor the Metal Men, turned a single eye towards them.Days later, Platinum again tried to garner their attention by showing off a dinosaur charm, sent to her by a secret admirer. Still, the men paid her no mind. Only when the dinosaur came to life, while growing to gigantic proportions, was their game disturbed. Tin leapt to shield the team from the creature's attack, but proved too feeble to offer much of a deterrent. Iron and Lead prepared to attack, but Platinum stopped them. Chastising the men for always being so quick to resort to violence, Platinum, instead, led the dinosaur into the kitchen, and fed it pots and pans. For long moments the creature seemed docile enough, until...