Villains included the immortality-seeking General Immortus, the shape-shifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and the Brotherhood of Evil led by the Brain, a disembodied brain kept alive by technology. Doom Patrol's rogues gallery matched the strange, weird tone of the series. The members of the Doom Patrol often quarrelled and had personal problems, something that was already common among superhero teams published by Marvel Comics such as Fantastic Four, but was novel among the DC lineup. And they were a little bit self-pitying, just a little bit, and the chief was constantly telling them, "Stop crying in your beer." That made them something that wasn't around at the time. That was the thing that made Doom Patrol different, these people hated being superheroes. We need some kind of superhero to punch it up." So I said okay, went out and came back a couple of hours later with the basic idea about the man in the wheelchair who is the great brain, and runs this group of superheroes who hate being superheroes. My Greatest Adventure has ordinary heroes. The era of the superhero has taken over completely. Murray Boltinoff the editor, came to me one day, or I went to him one day and he said, "We're having a lot of trouble with My Greatest Adventure, it's starting to lay an egg. In an interview, Drake discussed the conception of Doom Patrol. My Greatest Adventure was officially retitled The Doom Patrol beginning with issue #86. Doctor Niles Caulder motivated the original Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, to use their powers for the greater good. Drake and Haney devised the plot for the issue together, and then each scripted half the issue independently (Drake the first half, Haney the second). ĭoom Patrol were announced on the cover art of My Greatest Adventure #80 ( cover dated June 1963). The team was initially announced as "The Legion of the Strange". Boltinoff was enthusiastic about Drake's initial pitch with Elasti-Girl and Automaton (changed to Robotman by the team's third appearance, issue #82), but Drake wanted a third character and enlisted Haney's help in coming up with Negative Man. According to Drake, editor Murray Boltinoff told him My Greatest Adventure was in danger of cancellation and he wanted him to create a new feature which might save it. With fellow writer Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani, he created Doom Patrol, a team of super-powered misfits who were regarded as freaks by the world at large. The task, assigned to writer Arnold Drake, was to create a team that fit both of these formats. Publication history My Greatest Adventure: Doom Patrol (volume 1) Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol, with art by Bruno Premiani.ĭoom Patrol first appeared in 1963, when the DC title My Greatest Adventure, an adventure anthology, was being converted to a superhero format. Since then, there have been six Doom Patrol series, with Robotman as the only character to appear in all of them. The original series was canceled in 1968 when Drake killed the team off in issue #121, last of that series, (September–October 1968). The team remained the featured characters of My Greatest Adventure, which was re-titled Doom Patrol as of issue #86 (March 1964). Dubbed the "world's strangest heroes" by editor Murray Boltinoff, the original team included the Chief (Niles Caulder), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr), and Negative Man (Larry Trainor) Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) and Mento (Steve Dayton) joined soon after. The series' creator and fans have suspected that Marvel Comics copied the basic concept to create the X-Men, which debuted a few months later.ĭoom Patrol are a group of super-powered misfits whose "gifts" caused them alienation and trauma. Doom Patrol has appeared in different incarnations in multiple comics, and have been adapted to other media. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), and was created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney, along with artist Bruno Premiani. Doom Patrol is a superhero team from DC Comics.
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