Metal Men #48

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Doctor William Magnus attempts to repair Platinum's faulty responsometer. Magnus is unsuccessful. Suddenly, Magnus' therapist, Isobel Sullivan, her roommate, Johanna Rome, and Mona Bennet, barge into Magnus' laboratory. Bennet is in trouble, and Sullivan is hoping Magnus can help her. Bennet tells the tale of Doctor Bruce Gordon, her fiance. Gordon had been working on the construction of Solar City, when it was destroyed by Eclipso. Weeks later, Bennet discovered that Gordon was Eclipso. The wound he received from a black diamond had altered Gordon's biochemistry. Under any eclipsed sphere of light, Gordon transformed, against his will, into Eclipso.After Eclipso suffered a defeat, at the hands of the Justice League of America, Gordon attempted to destroy Eclipso, once and for all. Gordon bombarded himself with high intensity light, Eclipso's one weakness, hoping it would burn Eclipso out of him. Due to a freak accident, Gordon's mechanism shattered. A piece of debris eclipsed the lamp's light, transforming Gordon into Eclipso. Entering Gordon' study to retrieve his weapon, a black diamond, Eclipso discovered an unopened letter, to Gordon, from Bennet's father, Doctor Simon Bennet. Upon reading the letter, Eclipso left, immediately, for the Georgia Augusta University Library in Gottingen, Germany.Magnus, Sullivan, Rome, Bennet, and the Metal Men, travel to Germany, in the Jetaway. En route, Bennet reveals the contents of her father's letter. In the mid 1500's, a group of Spanish conquistadores stumbled upon the ruins of a lost city, in Peru. Only one of the conquistadores got out of that city alive. He was found, screaming in agony, by a pair of missionary priests. Only a series of strange documents survived the expedition. Upon returning these documents to Spain, they were destroyed, as heretical, by the Spanish Inquisition. One of these documents was saved by a rebellious monk, who fled Spain, to escape the religious persecution.The document was brought to Germany,...