Brave and the Bold (Vol. 1) #58
(February, 1965)
Story: The Junkyard of Doom
Writer: Bob Haney
Penciller: Ramona Fradon
Inker: Charles Paris
First Appearances:
* Karko
* Maxwell Tremaine.
* Mantis
Canon Milestones:
* Rex Mason uses a mask that resembles his face for the first time.
* Simon Stagg realizes he is unable to cure Metamorpho.
* Simon Stagg declares he needs Metamorpho for his purposes.
* It is established Rex Mason is a professional car racer.
* Rex Mason uses his powers publicly for the first time.
* Sapphire calls Rex "Metamorpho" for the first time.
Synopsis:
After saving the competitors of a Race in which Rex was running his ends being recognized publicly so Sapphire creates for Rex a new personality to avoid being disturbed.
That night, Karko, one of Stagg's henchmen turn a traitor, steals The Orb of Ra and uses it to subdue Metamorpho to kidnap him. Using one of Stagg's planes he takes Rex to Africa to a place called "The Mountains of the Moon" where some natives alongside a giant metal mantis take Metamorpho to a cave behind a waterfall.
Karko obeys to the orders of Maxwell Tremaine, a scientist traitor to America who aided nazis during World War II now making experiments in a junkyard of disposed weapons to create a robotic army. After receiving the orb Tremaine kills Karko using his robotic mantis and asks Metamorpho to help him to create an army.
Metamorpho rejects the offer and Tremaine makes the mantis to attack him. Rex flees and must confront Tremaine's monstruos creations living on the junkyard beating two of them using his powers.
Simon Stagg manages to trace his stolen plane and gets to the junkyard in the very moment a third robot is attacking Metamorpho. As Tremaine feels himself threatened, attacks the plane and disintegrates it but Metamorpho saves the occupants.
Simon Stagg catch up with what is happening and when he recognizes the name of his enemy, he tells the group that Tremaine in the past was his rival for the affections of Mara Stagg, Sapphire's deceased mother. Tremaine looks for Metamorpho and his friends using a flying vehicle and abducts Sapphire while leaves his robotic mantis to kill Rex and his friends.
Metamorpho turns into a diamond drill to penetrate the mantis's cuirass and destroy its inner mechanisms. Moreover penetrates a mount filled with lava and destroys the whole junkyard.
In his lair, Tremaine thinks Sapphire is Mara his mother and tries to kiss her but in that moment Metamorpho comes and defeat Tremaine. Stagg recovers the orb and another of his planes gets to the place to rescue them. Tremaine is taken into custody and the group return home.
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