Fictional history

A roughly humanoid, missile

Missile

Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...

 robot called "Z-1" was sent to a junkyard world. A solar flare reactivated him. "Feeling" lonely, he tried to build a queen

Queen consort

A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles. Historically, queens consort do not share the king regnant's political and military powers. Most queens in history were queens consort...

 for him out of the junk. However, he just created "mindless replicas of himself". So he decided to find himself a queen. He decided that Platinum

Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...

 (of the Metal Men

Metal Men

The Metal Men are fictional characters that appear in comic books published by DC Comics. The characters first appeared in Showcase #37 and were created by writer Robert Kanigher and penciller Ross Andru...

) would be his queen. So he and most of the Missile Men went to Earth falling down like missile

Missile

Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...

s. They destroyed Tin

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. It is a main group metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4...

 and Mercury (who were late rebuilt). Doctor Magnus used a machine to magnetize the Missile Men into each other. They formed a giant metal "ball" that sank to the bottom of the sea.

11 issues later, the Missile Men still on the junkyard world sent a "super-Missile-Man" (that the Metal Men easily destroyed). So, they build evil replicas of the Metal Men to destroy them, but the real Metal Men easily destroyed them. More Missile Men tried to destroy up the Metal Men (they did temporally destroy Lead

Lead

Lead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed...

 and Platinum

Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...

). But, they were stopped, when Iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

 and Mercury made an alloy that Gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a...

 magnetize forcing them to head towards the Iron-Mercury alloy.

In a two-parter (Issue 54 and 55) the metal-men leave to be on their own. Green Lantern is told by one of the guardians of Oa that the Missile Men are raping planets for metal and are heading for Earth. Hal Jordan picks up signs of alien activity emanating from the moon, as he approaches the moon he is zapped by a Missile Men but is protected by his power aura, he destroys the Missile Man and uses its outer shell to disguise himself as one so he can infiltrate the Missile Men meeting. He discovers that the Missile Man leader Z1 wishes to be re-united with Tina as his queen.

Hal leaves the moon to question the Metal Men about the proceedings on the moon. But as he lands an invisible stream of energy touches their responsometers and they attack The Green Lantern - who now thinks they are in league with the Missile Men. The battle rages on and eventually Gold defeats Green Lantern at the cost of most of the metal men being heavily damaged (This was reveal to be part of the Missile Mens plans).

The Metal Men defeat Z-1 and his army of Missile Men with the help of the unconscious Green Lantern's power ring.

Physical Appearance

The Missile Men look like green missile

Missile

Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...

s with limbs and faces with yellow eyes.