Metal Men started in the early 1960s, with Doc Magnus usually having to repair the robots he created after most of their adventures. I guess when you make it that easy to restore them, there was no reason to refrain from an, "Oh my God, they killed Kenny!" approach. The book continued on an every other month schedule for almost 7 years, albeit the last 4 issues the Metal Men donned human disguises. As far as revamps go, it might rank slightly higher than when DC gave each of the Blackhawks some dumb super-gimmick, but the book still ended at 41 issues, returned briefly three years later (reprinting earlier stories), then went dormant for another 3 years.
When the book returns again, Magnus is in therapy to recover from a dictator brainwashing him, but when he's not in therapy, the military has him building weapons. So he builds a radioactive robot with his brain patterns, that tries to kill the Metal Men. That gets sorted, temporarily, but from there, they have to recover a vault full of cash Magnus stole, fight Eclipso, fight a secret lab that's trying to accelerate the development of children, fight Green Lantern, fight the Missile Men.
There's a few attempts to change things up. Doc's rebuild of the group after they fight his Plutonium-bot results in a new look for Platinum, and she's no longer fawning over Doc. Now she flirts with each of the male robots, which doesn't seem like an improvement, but it doesn't last long before she reverts back to pining for Doc. The Metal Men actually walk away from Magnus, correctly noting their lives are spent getting destroyed and rebuilt at his command, whether they want to or not. Magnus respects that and tries building a new creation without emotions to appease the military (and make him feel less guilty if it gets destroyed.) It naturally decides it needs to kill the Metal Men.
This stretch lasted 12 issues, although that includes issue 50, which was mostly a reprint of issue #6. Sadly, Walt Simonson only draws the first 5 issues, up through the Eclipso arc. He doesn't have the chance to go grand as often as he would on Thor, but he draws some very nifty designs of the Metal Men forming one device or another. A solar powered laser cannon, a hydrofoil-powered car, things like that. He also gives them and Magnus a lot of character via body language, able to show how easily Magnus can shift from confident and in control (when he's rebuilding the Metal Men) to nervous or flummoxed (pretty much the second things start to veer off-course.)
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