{"id":3855,"date":"2022-03-29T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2022-01-01T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T06:06:41","slug":"692-metallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/692-metallo\/","title":{"rendered":"692 – Metallo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Action Comics #252, March 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Although not as big news as Supergirl’s debut<\/a>, Action Comics #252 (March 1959) also introduced another Superman villain in the main Superman feature: Metallo<\/a>, created by Robert Bernstein and Al Plastino. John Corben is a reporter with a secret: he’s really a criminal. On his way home one night, he gets into a fatal car accident and is discovered by a scientist, who takes his injured body back to his lab and replaces it with a metal one to save his life. Much like Robotman<\/a>, Corben is now a cyborg (a human brain in a synthetic body) and his body relies on uranium capsules to stay alive. Unfortunately the scientist then dies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metallo commits a series of robberies to find uranium, but discovers that one other substance can sustain his body: kryptonite. Unfortunately the fragment of kryptonite he steals was actually a fake, and so his body ceases to function. Don’t worry folks, this is just another case of a villain that was prematurely killed. Metallo will return!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another panel from Action Comics #252, March 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although not as big news as Supergirl’s debut, Action Comics #252 (March 1959) also introduced another Superman villain in the main Superman feature: Metallo, created by Robert Bernstein and Al Plastino. John Corben is a reporter with a secret: he’s really a criminal. On his way home one night, he gets into a fatal car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,492,14,287,582,622,243,43],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-613","tag-al-plastino","tag-dc","tag-kryptonite","tag-metallo","tag-robert-bernstein","tag-robotman","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3859,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}