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

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

Fictional team history

The Metal Men are a group of robots created by Will Magnus after he was exposed to cosmic rays during a space mission and transformed into a robot. However, the Metal Men destroy the Gas Gang, transforming them into steam and returning Magnus to his normal form.^[1]^[2]

In subsequent appearances, the Gas Gang are rebuilt and begin serving Platinum Man.^[3]

Members

Oxygen: An oxygen tank.
Helium: A rubberized container that can expand.
Carbon Monoxide: A lit Bunsen Burner with a fiery head.
Chloroform: A cylindrical tank perforated with holes from which it emits gas.
Carbon Dioxide: An anthropomorphic dry ice crystal.

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.^[4] This version of the group are Will Magnus' former colleagues who were presumed dead after transforming themselves into gaseous beings while developing a gas that can trigger volcanic eruptions. In the present, the Gas Gang kidnap Magnus and force him to build robot bodies to contain them. While battling the Gang, Batman inadvertently fuses them into a deadly gas cloud before destroying them by detonating the Batplane.

References

^ Metal Men #6
^ Cronin, Brian (January 12, 2017). "Comic Books: 15 Supervillain Teams You've Completely Forgotten". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
^ Metal Men #10
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- "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.

[1] Metal Men #6

[2] Cronin, Brian (January 12, 2017). "Comic Books: 15 Supervillain Teams You've Completely Forgotten". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved October 11, 2024.

[3] Metal Men #10

[4] 
"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.

[5] "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.

[6] "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.

[7] "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.

[8] "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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-The '''Gas Gang''' were a group of short-lived fictional robots created in the [[Metal Men]] universe, from the Metal Men story "The Day Doc Turned Robot!" ("Metal Men" #6, [[DC Comics]], February-March 1964).
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+The '''Gas Gang''' were a group of short-lived fictional robots in [[DC Comics]]. They first appeared in ''Metal Men'' #6.
-==Fictional history==
+==Fictional team history==
+The Metal Men are a group of robots created by Will Magnus after he was exposed to cosmic rays during a space mission and transformed into a robot. However, the Metal Men destroy the Gas Gang, transforming them into steam and returning Magnus to his normal form.<ref>''Metal Men'' #6</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=January 12, 2017 |title=Comic Books: 15 Supervillain Teams You've Completely Forgotten |url=https://www.cbr.com/15-supervillain-teams-youve-completely-forgotten/ |access-date=October 11, 2024 |website=[[Comic Book Resources]]}}</ref>
-The story begins where the previous story "Menace of the Mammoth Robots!" left off. After dislodging a meteor from his ship's hull and rescuing the lone female robot [[Platinum]], [[Will Magnus|Dr. William "Will" Magnus]] had his spacesuit perforated by cosmic rays. The effect was that during their return trip to Earth, "Doc" Magnus became a robot himself, displaying none of the actual human and humane feelings toward his Metal Men or anything, even to the point of denying the Metal Men the opportunity to rescue another rocketship in distress. After they disobeyed orders and rescued the ship, Doc Magnus threatened to melt down his creations. For his own protection, after landing the Metal Men locked him in his lab and began experimenting on ways to make him human again.
+In subsequent appearances, the Gas Gang are rebuilt and begin serving Platinum Man.<ref>''Metal Men'' #10</ref>
-However, while they were busy with one failed experiment after another, the lab door burst open and Doc Magnus introduced his new robots, the Gas Gang. Unlike the Metal Men (each of whom was based on a different metal), these were based on (and named for) the gases [[Oxygen]], [[Helium]], [[Chloroform]], [[Carbon Monoxide]], and [[Carbon Dioxide]].
-Whereas the Metal Men were approximately the same size as Doctor Magnus, the Gas Gang were anywhere from one-third to twice his size.
-On Chloroform's initial attack, it caused the Metal Men to break out in fits of hysteria ala [[Nitrous Oxide]] ([[Laughing Gas]]) which Doc Magnus said was chloroform's initial effect). Before [[Lead]] could wall them off, [[Mercury (element)|Mercury]] literally "broke up laughing", opening Oxygen to attack and causing the Metal Men to begin to rust. During the chase Carbon Monoxide (called "CM" by Carbon Dioxide) attempted to poison them with fumes, while Carbon Dioxide (called "CD" by Carbon Monoxide) attempted to freeze them. The chase ended in one of the labs where [[Gold]] was attempting heat conduction on the others as a possible cure for their creator. As Helium expanded and cornered the Metal Men, Platinum got Gold to repeat the experiment, stretching and transforming himself into a large cage and trapping the Gas Gang. When he connected himself to the high-voltage conductors he melted the Gas Gang and converted them all to steam.  That was when they discovered Doctor Magnus had been trapped in there with them, and as it turned out is what cured him and made him human again.
 ==Members==
-* '''Oxygen''' - A Gas Gang member in the form of a walking oxygen tank.
+* '''[[Oxygen]]''': An oxygen tank.
-* '''Helium''' - A Gas Gang member in the form of a rubberized container that could expand.
+* '''[[Helium]]''': A rubberized container that can expand.
+* '''[[Carbon Monoxide]]''': A lit [[Bunsen Burner]] with a fiery head.
-* '''Chloroform''' - A Gas Gang member in the form of a walking cylindrical tank perforated with holes from which it emitted its gas.
+* '''[[Chloroform]]''': A cylindrical tank perforated with holes from which it emits gas.
-* '''Carbon Monoxide''' - A Gas Gang member in the form of a walking lit [[Bunsen Burner]].
-* '''Carbon Dioxide''' - A Gas Gang member that resembles an [[anthropomorphic]] [[dry ice]] crystal.
+* '''[[Carbon Dioxide]]''': An anthropomorphic [[dry ice]] crystal.
 ==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.<ref>{{multiref2|{{cite web |title=Helium Voice - ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' (TV Show) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Batman-The-Brave-and-the-Bold/Helium/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} 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.|{{cite web |title=Oxygen Voice - ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' (TV Show) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Batman-The-Brave-and-the-Bold/Oxygen/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} 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.|{{cite web |title=Hydrogen Voice - ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' (TV Show) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Batman-The-Brave-and-the-Bold/Hydrogen/ |access-date=May 30, 2024 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} 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.|{{cite web |title=Carbon Dioxide Voice - ''Batman: The Brave and the Bold'' (TV Show) |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Batman-The-Brave-and-the-Bold/Carbon-Dioxide/|access-date=May 30, 2024 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} 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.
-===Television===
+}}</ref> This version of the group are [[Will Magnus]]' former colleagues who were presumed dead after transforming themselves into gaseous beings while developing a gas that can trigger volcanic eruptions. In the present, the Gas Gang kidnap Magnus and force him to build robot bodies to contain them. While battling the Gang, Batman inadvertently fuses them into a deadly gas cloud before destroying them by detonating the [[Batplane]].
-* The Gas Gang appeared in the ''[[Batman: The Brave and the Bold]]'' episode "Clash of the Metal Men!". Their members include Carbon Dioxide ([[Hynden Walch]]), Hydrogen ([[Lex Lang]]), Helium ([[Bill Fagerbakke]]), Oxygen ([[]]), Nitrogen, and Chloroform. This version are Dr. Magnus' fellow scientists who were turned into gaseous forms following a lab accident trying to use the experiment for themselves and sell the power to dictators in their plans for world domination. A sixth member Hydrogen was present. They kidnap Dr. Will Magnus in order to form robotic bodies to store their fading bodies. They ended up fighting Batman and the Metal Men and ended up defeating them. Dr. Magnus reluctantly made them robotic bodies to store their gaseous forms. They then strapped a chemical container to Dr. Magnus and slowly lowered him into a volcano so that the heat can trigger the chemical container and set off the volcano. When their powers were too much for the Metal Men, they formed around Batman to form an armor. After taking a beating, the Gas Gang also combined and turned the tide against Batman and the Metal Men. Batman threw a torch at the combined Gas Gang exploding their bodies and combined their gas forms into a deadly gas cloud. While Batman went after the Gas Gang, the Metal Men saved Dr. Magnus. Batman set his Batplane to self-destruct destroying the Gas Gang.
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+{{Metal Men}}
+[[Category:Comics characters introduced in 1964]]
 [[Category:DC Comics robots]]
+[[Category:DC Comics supervillain teams]]
+[[Category:Metal Men]]
+[[Category:Robot supervillains]]