(DC Comics Presents #4) - Chemo returned to life and defeated the Metal Men, pinning them under a building. The Metal men realized their powers were malfunctioning, so they visited S.T.A.R. Labs, where Superman was also being examined because his powers were malfunctioning. Dr. Jenet Klyburn concluded that massive solar flares caused by a magnetic beam were responsible for all their problems, and Superman suggested they team-up to find the source. The Metal Men were all starstruck, and eagerly accepted. They found an isolated observatory wehre supervillain I.Q. had fired Chemo into the sun. He explained that he used a magnetic cannon to increase solar activity to improve his mental powers, but made a miscalculation, and determined that Chemo’s unique chemical composition was the only way to keep the sun from going nova. Superman double-checked his calculations and realized he was off by a decimal point, and that the sun would return to normal on its own, but Chemo would definitely make it go nova. Superman flew into space, intercepting Chemo, and bouncing him back to Earth, but the impact rendered him unconscious. The Metal men battled Chemo and were nearly destroyed before Superman intervened. Chemo overheated trying to destroy Superman, so the hero hurled him into the atmosphere to explode. At S.T.A.R. Labs Superman performed delicate surgery to restore the Metal Men.

(Enginehead #6) - Bones and the DEO were tracking new unpredictable metahuman Enginehead, who continually slipped away from them. Enginehead, trying to fix the flaw in humanity, had taken a woman whose car accident he'd caused and rebuilt her as a cyborg. Bones sent the Metal Men and JLA to battle Enginehead. Enginehead needed a final spark to create what he saw would be a new world that was without the flaws of the old, and after showing Tin his vision of the universe, agreed to give him his spark. Tin felt overjoyed and brave, telling his teammates he'd just saved the world. Enginehead ended up sacrificing part of himself to build Irontown, a new kind of engine and home for the disaffected of the world. The woman he transformed became one of the first residents.

(Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1) - An army of Earth’s heroes, including Iron and the Metal Men, appeared to take Superboy-Prime down during the Sinestro Corps invasion of Earth. The heroes focused on wrecking his armor, because after a year on Oa, and away from a yellow sun his Kryptonian body still wasn’t at full strength, and his armor collected sunlight. Superboy bragged that once the sun rose on Earth he’d be at full power. Superboy was battered by Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman, who blamed him for Superboy’s death, as well as Supergirl and Power Girl, who blamed him for the death of the Superman of Earth-2. As the fight went against him, Superboy broke down in tears. He tried to wipe them away, saying that it was impossible foir boys to cry, and then whining that no one ever thanked him for sacrificing his Earth to save the multiverse. The battle lasted until dawn, and he flew into the sunrise. As he achieved full power he declared himself the one, true Superman. The Guardians arrived with Sodam Yat, the new Ion, and pitted him against Superboy-Prime.

(Doom Patrol V #1) - Doc Magnus and the Metal Men set up shop in a new neighborhood, and they faced hostile neighbors who worried that the Metal Men were a health hazard. Doc met with a neighborhood council to allay their fears, he'd made his Metal Men environmentally friendly, but no one listened to him. The Metal Men became more emotionally unstable, and the team refused to accept the presence of their new teammate Copper. A museum hired the Metal Men to recover the ruby of redemption from Brazil, but it was guarded by the animated idol Zummazumma. They managed to destroy Zummazumma, but Lead managed to lose the ruby. It took them 12 hours, but they finally found it and returned home.

(Doom Patrol V #2) - Doc Magnus hired out the Metal Men to fix a television satellite. Magnus tried to impress his neighbors by having Lead and Iron transform into a lawnmower to do their lawns, but their help just creeped the neighborhood out. Gold, Tina and Copper ent into space in a rocket to get the job done, but they forgot to bring along the repair manual. Doc as going to talk them through it, but Tina and Gold started bickering when Gold kept self-aggrandizing, and their scuffle led to the destruction of the television satellite and a nearby communications satellite, blacking out TV reception in 42 states.

(Doom Patrol V #5, 6) - Tina sent Mercury, Tin and Magnus to the department store to get her birthday gifts. The three took a cab, and Mercury continued to berate Tin for crashing their car. Magnus made it clear that he thought the idea of celebrating a birthday for a robot was ridiculous. He confided in Tin that Tina’s interest in him was only her mimicking what she thought of as human love from the media she’d seen. The Clique, robotic mannequins who wanted to rule the world, were causing a disturbance at the department store, and the Metal Men went into action. Betty, the Clique’s leader, ripped off Tin’s head. The Clique forced Magnus to pick out clothes for them, and he managed to call the rest of the Metal Men, but it took them a bit to arrive because Tina was so excited to get a call from Magnus that she neglected to ask where he was. Iron started comparing his teammates to actors from various ‘40s and ‘50s sitcoms, and told them he’d turned to learning about pop culture because it was the best way to understand humanity. Tina was furious seeing Magnus consorting with other female robots, and attacked them. The Metal Men combined to form a wood-chipper that ground the Clique to dust, and then wondered about the implications of destroying other artificial life forms. Magnus talked to the military to convince them that Prof. Rumpus, creator of the Clique, was just a fan of his, and not a terrorist.

(Doom Patrol V #7) - The Metal Men fought Giganta, who was going on a rampage in Chicago. During the battle she had a wardrobe malfunction, and her chest popped out. She was mortified, and agreed to surrender when Tina and Copper offered to make her a metal bikini to hide her nudity. The Metal Men and Doc went back home, but their house exploded as they prepared to enter it. Douglas, Robot Hunter had broken in and laid explosives, but he accidentally blew himself up along with the house.