Gas Gang

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Gas Gang
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Publisher DC comics
First appearance Metal Men #6 (February 1964)
In-story information
Member(s)Oxygen
Helium
Chloroform
Carbon Monoxide
Carbon Dioxide

The Gas Gang were a group of short-lived fictional robots in DC Comics. They first appeared in Metal Men #6.

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Fictional team history

After dislodging a meteor from his ship's hull and rescuing Platinum, Will Magnus had his spacesuit perforated by cosmic rays. The effect was that during their return trip to Earth, Magnus became a robot himself. After the Metal Men disobeyed orders and rescued the ship, Magnus threatened to melt down his creations. The Metal Men lock Magnus in his lab and began experimenting on ways to make him human again. Magnus creates a new group of robots, the Gas Gang, who are based on and named for types of gas. [1] [2] [3] As Helium corners the Metal Men, Platinum gets Gold to repeat the experiment, transforming himself into a large cage and trapping the Gas Gang. After connecting himself to high-voltage conductors, Gold melts the Gas Gang and converts them all to steam. Magnus is also inside Gold during the process, which restores him to his human form. [4]

The Gas Gang are rebuilt when the Metal Men return from a space mission, having been fused into a single body and rendered mentally unstable. Carrying out Magnus' instructions to defeat the Metal Men Collective and then bring them to him, the Gas Gang turn against Magnus and try to kill him. Once again, they are defeated and eradicated. [5]

Members

In other media

The Gas Gang appear in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Clash of the Metal Men!", consisting of Oxygen (voiced by Brian Bloom), Carbon Dioxide (Hynden Walch), Helium (Bill Fagerbakke), Chloroform - who has no dialogue - and series original characters Hydrogen (Lex Lang) and Nitrogen, the latter of whom also has no dialogue. [6] This version of the Gas Gang consisted of former colleagues of Milton Magnus who were presumed dead while working on a gas designed to trigger volcanic eruptions, which turned them into gaseous beings. In the present, the Gas Gang kidnap Magnus and coerce him into building robot bodies to contain them until they are thwarted by Batman and the Metal Men. During the subsequent battle, Batman accidentally merges the Gas Gang into a lethal gas cloud before destroying them with the Batplane.

References

  1. ↑ "DC FLASHBACK: The Metal Men". Comic Book Resources . August 17, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2025. Many Silver Age writers followed suit, as did Metal Men scribe Robert Kanigher. Elemental evils like the Gas Gang were joined by mechanical menaces such as the Missile Men, and a robotic version of Chang Tzu (later of "52" fame) appeared with the name Dr. Yes (as a lampoon of Ian Fleming's Dr. No).
  2. ↑ Cronin, Brian (January 12, 2017). "Comic Books: 15 Supervillain Teams You've Completely Forgotten". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved October 11, 2024. The issue opened with the shocking revelation that following a mission in outer space, Doctor Will Magnus (the creator of the Metal Men) had been exposed to cosmic rays and had been transformed into a robot himself! Unlike the Metal Men, however, Magnus was now devoid of emotions and would not let the Metal Men rescue another space ship in distress. When they disobeyed him, he decided that he had to destroy him. They locked him into a room at their headquarters while they tried to come up with a way to return him to his normal self. Foolishly, they locked him into an area of their base where he had access to his robot-building tools, so he built a new group of robots, each based on a gas rather than a metal.
  3. ↑ Balino, Tomas (January 3, 2022). "The Untold Truth Of DC's Metal Men". Looper. Retrieved September 1, 2025. In "Metal Men" #6, Magnus, briefly turned into an evil robot by cosmic rays, transforms Oxygen, Helium, Chloroform, Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide into his Gas Gang; essentially villainous predecessors to Magnus' more heroic gas team, the Metal Mammals.
  4. ↑ Kanigher, Robert  ( w ), Andru, Ross  ( p ), Esposito, Mike  ( i )."The Day Doc Turned Robot" Metal Men ,vol. 1,no. 6(March 1964).DC Comics.
  5. ↑ Kanigher, Robert  ( w ), Andru, Ross  ( p ), Esposito, Mike  ( i )."Revolt of the Gas Gang" Metal Men ,vol. 1,no. 10(November 1964).DC Comics.
  6. ↑
    • "Helium Voice - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 30, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
    • "Oxygen Voice - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 30, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
    • "Hydrogen Voice - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 30, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
    • "Carbon Dioxide Voice - Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Show)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved May 30, 2024. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
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