Doom Patrol
The Doom Patrol. (Left to right: Vox, Beast Boy, Bumblebee (flying), Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, The Chief (seated), Robotman) from Teen Titans vol. 3, #35 (June 2006). Art by Tony Daniel.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics/Vertigo
First appearance	My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
Created by	Bob Haney Arnold Drake Bruno Premiani
In story information
Base(s) of operation	Dayton Manor
Roster	Beast Boy Bumblebee The Chief Elasti-Girl Mento Negative Man Robotman Vox
See:List of Doom Patrol members
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The Doom Patrol is a fictional superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963). Writers Bob Haney and Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani created the team. The Doom Patrol has since appeared in multiple incarnations. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (644x1000, 637 KB)The Doom Patrol, in art from Teen Titans #35 by Tony Daniel. ... Mal Duncan, currently known as Vox, is a fictional character from DC Comics. ... Beast Boy (real name Garfield Mark Gar Logan) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a shapeshifting superhero who is a former member of the Doom Patrol and member of the Teen Titans. ... Bumblebee is the superhero alias of Karen Beecher, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... Negative Man is a fictional superhero from DC Comics. ... Elasti-Girl is a superhero of the DC Comics universe and a member of the Doom Patrol. ... The Chief (Dr. Niles Caulder) is a fictional character from DC Comics and starred in the Doom Patrol comic. ... Robotman is the name of a DC Comics Superhero. ... Daniels pencil-only cover for Teen Titans vol. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... Vertigo logo Vertigo is an imprint of comic book and graphic novel publisher DC Comics. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... Robert Haney (1926 - November 25, 2004) was a comic book writer. ... Arnold Drake was an American writer of comic books notable for his work on Deadman, for which he was given the Bill Finger Award, and on Doom Patrol. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Beast Boy (real name Garfield Mark Gar Logan) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a shapeshifting superhero who is a former member of the Doom Patrol and member of the Teen Titans. ... Bumblebee is the superhero alias of Karen Beecher, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe. ... The Chief (Dr. Niles Caulder) is a fictional character from DC Comics and starred in the Doom Patrol comic. ... Elasti-Girl is a superhero of the DC Comics universe and a member of the Doom Patrol. ... Mento is a fictional superhero from the DC comics universe. ... Negative Man is a fictional superhero from DC Comics. ... Robotman is the name of a DC Comics Superhero. ... Mal Duncan, currently known as Vox, is a fictional character from DC Comics. ... The Doom Patrols team roster has changed a great deal over the years. ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... For other uses, see Superhero (disambiguation). ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... Robert Haney (1926 - November 25, 2004) was a comic book writer. ... Arnold Drake was an American writer of comic books notable for his work on Deadman, for which he was given the Bill Finger Award, and on Doom Patrol. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

The first Doom Patrol consisted of super-powered misfits, whose "gifts" caused them alienation and trauma. The series was canceled in 1968, and Drake killed the team off in the final issue, Doom Patrol #121 (September-October 1968).

In the years after this story, the team developed a cult following^{[citation needed]} and several subsequent Doom Patrol series were launched. Each series tried to capture the spirit of the original team, but the only character constant to all was Robotman. This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or cult in its original sense of religious practice. See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term cult. A cult following is a group of fans devoted to a specific area of pop culture. ... Robotman is the name of a DC Comics Superhero. ...

The Original Doom Patrol

Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol. Art by Bruno Premiani.

The Doom Patrol first appeared in 1963, when the DC title My Greatest Adventure, an adventure anthology title, was being converted to a superhero format. The task assigned writer Arnold Drake was to create a team that fit both formats. With fellow writer Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani, he created the Doom Patrol, a team of superpowered misfits regarded as freaks by the world at large. It first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80, June 1963. Professor Niles Caulder motivated the original Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, to use their powers for the greater good. The series was such a success that My Greatest Adventure was officially retitled The Doom Patrol beginning with issue #86. My Greatest Adventure 80 This image is a book cover. ... My Greatest Adventure 80 This image is a book cover. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol. ...

The Doom Patrol's rogues gallery matched the strange, weird tone of the series. Villains included the immortal General Immortus, the shapeshifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and the Brotherhood of Evil led by the Brain, an actual brain kept alive by technology. The Brotherhood of Evil also included the intelligent gorilla Monsieur Mallah and Madame Rouge, a shapeshifter. General Immortus is a DC Comics villain. ... Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is a fictional supervillain from the DC Universe and a foe of the original Doom Patrol. ... The Brotherhood of Evil is a group of DC Comics supervillains, arch-enemies of the original Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans. ... The Brain is a French mastermind and criminal genius. ... Type species Troglodytes gorilla Savage, 1847 distribution of Gorilla Species Gorilla gorilla Gorilla beringei The gorilla, the largest of the living primates, is a ground-dwelling omnivore that inhabits the forests of Africa. ... Monsieur Mallah is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. ... Madame Rouge is a fictional DC Comics supervillain. ...

Cover to Doom Patrol #121 (September-October 1968), the last original issue of the series. Art by Joe Orlando.

When the popularity of the book waned and the publisher canceled it, Drake ended the series in a dramatic manner: he killed off the entire Doom Patrol. In Doom Patrol #121 (September-October 1968), the Doom Patrol sacrificed their lives to save the small fishing village of Codsville, Maine. This marked the first time in comic book history that a canceled book ended by having its entire cast of main characters die. Artist Bruno Premiani and editor Murray Boltinoff appeared at the beginning and the end of the story, asking fans to write to DC to resurrect the Doom Patrol, and several more issues appeared containing reprints of what they considered the best stories. Despite the efforts of the creators, a Doom Patrol revival did not occur for another nine years. Doom Patrol 121 This image is a book cover. ... Doom Patrol 121 This image is a book cover. ... Joe Orlando was an illustrator, writer, editor and cartoonist who was born April 4, 1927, in Bari, Italy, and died December 23, 1998, in Manhattan. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ...

Some similarities exist between the original Doom Patrol and Marvel Comics' original X-Men. Both include misfit superheroes shunned by society and both are led by men of preternatural intelligence confined to wheelchairs. These similarities ultimately led series writer Arnold Drake to maintain that the concept of the X-Men had been based on the Doom Patrol. The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...

Drake stated "...I’ve become more and more convinced that [Stan Lee] knowingly stole The X-Men from The Doom Patrol. Over the years I learned that an awful lot of writers and artists were working surreptitiously between [Marvel and DC]. Therefore from when I first brought the idea into [DC editor] Murray Boltinoff’s office, it would’ve been easy for someone to walk over and hear that [I was] working on a story about a bunch of reluctant superheroes who are led by a man in a wheelchair. So over the years I began to feel that Stan had more lead time than I realized. He may well have had four, five or even six months." (X-Men #1 debuted three months after MGA #80; due to publication lag times, Lee could not have know of the Doom Patrol when he scripted the first X-Men story unless he had been told about it in advance of its publication.)^[1]

Õthers have noted that the Doom Patrol shares fundamental similarities with Stan Lee's earlier title, the Fantastic Four. The original lineup of both teams included four members; each team had one member with stretching powers (Rita Farr of the Doom Patrol, Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four), one member with flame or flame-like powers (Larry Trainor of the DP and Johnny Storm of the FF), a member with brute strength and a freakish body (Cliff Steele and Ben Grimm) and a member who was invisible or stayed out of the public view (Niles Caulder and Sue Storm). Both teams quarrelled amongst themselves, unlike most other teams published by DC/National. This has led to assertions that the Doom Patrol were created with the Fantastic Four in mind.^[2] One commentator has stated that “it is considered common knowledge that the Doom Patrol was inspired by The Fantastic Four”.^[3]

Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol

Testing the waters

Cover to Showcase #94, the first appearance of the second Doom Patrol. Art by Jim Aparo.

Writer Paul Kupperberg, a longtime Doom Patrol fan, and artist Joe Staton introduced a new team in Showcase #94 (August-September 1977). An Indian-born woman named Arani Desai, who called herself Celsius and claimed to be the widow of Niles Caulder, led this team. This run also revealed the whereabouts of the Negative Spirit, which now possessed Russian cosmonaut Valentina Vostok, making her Negative Woman. It also revealed Robotman as the only survivor of the explosion that killed his teammates. He briefly wore a new, futuristic robot body, but returned to his original look after only two issues. This new version of the team lasted only a few issues before slipping into a series of guest appearances in other DC titles, such as DC Comics Presents (teaming up with Superman) and Supergirl. Robotman also appeared as an occasional supporting character in the Marv Wolfman and George Pérez era of Teen Titans, including a storyline when he and the Titans finally brought the murderers of the original Doom Patrol to justice. The final member of this team was Tempest, Joshua Clay. Tempest's power was energy blasts from his hands. In addition to regular comic book blast effect, Tempest would use the blast to propel himself through the air. Download high resolution version (400x607, 96 KB)Showcase 94 This image is a book cover. ... Download high resolution version (400x607, 96 KB)Showcase 94 This image is a book cover. ... Jim Aparo James N. Jim Aparo (1932-July 19, 2005) was a comic book artist best known for his work on various Batman stories for DC Comics. ... Paul Kupperberg is an editor for DC Comics, and a prolific writer of comic books and newspaper strips. ... Joe Staton (born January 19, 1948 in North Carolina), is an American illustrator and writer of comic books. ... Showcase has been the title of several anthology series published by DC Comics. ... Celsius is the superhero alias of Arani Desai Caulder, a fictional character in the DC Comics series, Doom Patrol. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... Valentina Vostok is a fictional character by DC Comics. ... DC Comics Presents. ... Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero , originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. ... For other uses, see Supergirl (disambiguation). ... Cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths #1, which was written by Wolfman. ... New Teen Titans #1. ... Teen Titans redirects here. ...

Prelude to the relaunch

Eclipse Comics also printed a two-issue index (with covers drawn by John Byrne) to the Doom Patrol in 1984, which included all of their appearances from their first to their final appearance before their early 1980s return. Byrne also illustrated Secret Origins Annual #1, published in 1986, which recapped the origins of the two iterations of the Doom Patrol that had existed thus far, as a prelude to the relaunch of their self-titled book. Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several influential indendent publishers during the 1980s. ... Official DC Index is a series of comic books released by Independent Comics Group (an imprint of Eclipse Comics) during the 1980s, which featured synopses of several DC Comics series. ... For other uses of John Byrne, see John Byrne (disambiguation). ...

The relaunch

The relaunch, also written by Kupperberg but illustrated by artist Steve Lightle, later replaced by a young Erik Larsen after issue 5, showed a more superheroic version of the Doom Patrol. It included new members who were hired to the team: the magnetically-empowered strong-girl Lodestone; Karma, whose psychic power made sure than anyone trying to attack him would wind up falling over themselves; and Scott Fischer, whose body generated phenomenal quantities of heat focussed through his hands, requiring him to wear protective gloves at all times. Most were not particularly interested in a heroic life. Lodestone stayed for the sense of security; Karma stayed there because it helped him hide from the law. Only Scott Fischer wanted to be a superhero in the traditional sense, and he was rather naive about the real world. After issue 18 and the events of the Invasion miniseries, Kupperberg left the series. DC Comics gave Grant Morrison the task of writing the book. Steve Lightle (born 1959) is an American comic book artist, working primarily as a penciller. ... Cover to The Savage Dragon (original miniseries) #1. ... Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ...

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

Cover to Doom Patrol vol. 2, #19. Morrison's first issue. Art by Richard Case.

After the first 18 issues (and various crossovers and annuals), Kupperberg was replaced by Grant Morrison, starting with issue #19. Kupperberg agreed to help Morrison by writing out characters Morrison did not want to use. Celsius and Scott Fischer died before issue #19 (Celsius was killed in an explosion in DC Comics' "Invasion!" event, and Scott Fischer (already suffering from a recurrence of childhood leukemia) was the only known active superhero casualty of the Dominators' gene-bomb (also in "Invasion!"); Karma left the team as he was still on the run from the law (he would eventually become a member of the Suicide Squad and die on his first mission with them in the "War of the Gods" crossover event); the Negative Spirit left Negative Woman's body; and Lodestone plunged into a coma, where she would remain for the first half of Morrison's run on the book. Tempest gave up fieldwork to become the team's physician. Morrison introduced several new characters to the team, including Dorothy Spinner, an ape-faced girl with powerful "imaginary friends"; the multiple personality afflicted Crazy Jane; and sentient roadway Danny the Street. Image File history File links Doompatrol. ... Image File history File links Doompatrol. ... Richard Case (born 1964) is an American comics artist, most often seen published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ... Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ... Joshua Clay is a fictional character, a member of the Doom Patrol in superhero comic books published by DC Comics. ... Dorothy Spinner is a fictional character created by Paul Kupperberg and owned by DC Comics. ... Crazy Jane isa a fictional character in the comic book Doom Patrol, created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case. ... Danny the Street. ...

Morrison used DC's Invasion crossover to restart the book. He took the Doom Patrol, and superhero comic books in general, to places they had rarely been, incorporating bizarre secret societies, elements of Dada, surrealism, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. He also borrowed the ideas of Jorge Luis Borges and Heinrich Hoffmann. Morrison and artist Richard Case turned the title around, and the series quickly gained a cult following, but some derided it as incomprehensible. People of this opinion did not include original creator Arnold Drake, who maintained that Morrison's was the only subsequent run to reflect the intent of the original series.^[4] For other uses, see Invasion (comics). ... For the Europe album, see Secret Society (Europe album). ... DaDa is a concept album by Alice Cooper, released in 1983. ... Max Ernst. ... The cut-up technique, also known as fishbowling, is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) — August 2, 1997; pronounced ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born outside of London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire. ... Borges redirects here. ... Youth and Hitler, a Hoffmann picture book Heinrich Hoffmann (October 12, 1885 in Fürth - December 11, 1957 in Munich) was a German photographer, who is best known for his numerous pictures of Adolf Hitler. ... Richard Case (born 1964) is an American comics artist, most often seen published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ...

Over the course of the series, Morrison dedicated some issues to parody and homage. Issue #53 featured a dream sequence that mimicked the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Fantastic Four, specifically the Galactus storyline. Another special called Doom Force was released as a one-shot and was meant to mimic and parody the X-Force book by Rob Liefeld. Issue #45 parodied Marvel's Punisher in a satire called the Beard Hunter. For the fictional character of this name, see Stan Lee (Judge Dredd character). ... Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds... Galactus is a fictional character, a cosmic entity in the Marvel Universe. ... X-Force was a Marvel Comics superhero team, one of many spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise. ... Rob Liefeld (born October 3, 1967 in Anaheim, California) is an American comic book writer, illustrator, and publisher. ... This article is about the Marvel Comics character. ...

Cover to Doom Patrol vol. 2, #50. Art by Simon Bisley.

Morrison's approach to the book was also notable in that his villains were extremely unusual and strange, even by Doom Patrol's eccentric standards. For example: Image File history File links Doom_patrol50. ... Image File history File links Doom_patrol50. ... Simon Bisley (born March 4, 1962) is a British comic book artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. ...

• Red Jack is a near-omnipotent being who thinks he is both Jack the Ripper and God. He lives in a house without windows, torturing butterflies, and cannot materialize in the world.
• The Brotherhood of Dada are an anarchistic group who fight against reality and reason. It features members such as Sleepwalk, who can only use her tremendous powers when asleep (taking sleeping pills and listening to Barry Manilow before battles), and The Quiz, who literally has "every superpower you hadn't thought of" and a pathological fear of dirt.
• The Scissormen, a fictional race of beings that attack non-fictional beings in the "real world" (i.e., the world the Doom Patrol live in) with their large scissor-like hands and literally cut people out of reality.

In Morrison's final storyline, it was revealed that the Chief had caused the "accidents" which turned Cliff, Larry Trainor and Rita Farr into freaks with the express intention of creating the Doom Patrol. He then murdered Josh and unleashed nanobots onto the world, hoping to create a catastrophe that would make the world a stranger and more wonderful place. However, Caulder did not anticipate being decapitated by one of Dorothy's "imaginary" beings, a malign entity called the Candlemaker. Jack the Ripper is the pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area of London, England in the second half of 1888. ... This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ... The Brotherhood of Dada is a group of fictional characters in the DC universe. ... Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter best known for such recordings as I Write the Songs, Mandy, Weekend in New England and Copacabana. ... In the DC comic book Doom Patrol (the second volume), the Scissormen are a fictional race of beings that come from the metafictional city of Orqwith. ... Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometres (10-9 metres). ... In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general singularity theory in geometry. ... The Candlemaker is a fictional character created by author Grant Morrison and owned by DC Comics. ...

Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol

Morrison left the book with issue #63, and Rachel Pollack took over writing the book the next issue. Pollack's first issue was also the first under the new Vertigo imprint of DC Comics (although the trade paperback edition of Morrison's work does bear the imprint, the original issues did not). Returning characters for Rachel Pollack's run included Cliff Steele, Niles Caulder (kept alive by the nanobots, but reduced to a disembodied head, usually kept on a tray filled with ice), and Dorothy Spinner. Pollack's run had Dorothy as a primary member of the Patrol; she brought her imaginary friends to her aid in combat. Overall, Pollack's run dealt with issues such as the generation gap, humanity, identity, transgenderism, bisexuality, and borrowed elements from Judaism and Kabbalah in the last few issues. The angel Akatriel is used as a major character in the last four issues. Rachel Pollack (born Richard Pollack in 1945) is an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot. ... Vertigo logo Vertigo is an imprint of comic book and graphic novel publisher DC Comics. ... A generation gap is a popular term used to describe wide differences in cultural norms between members of a younger generation and their elders. ... Look up Humanity, humanity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Identity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Transgenderism is a social movement seeking transgender rights and affirming transgender pride. ... Bisexual redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about traditional Jewish Kabbalah. ... Angels of Presence are high-level angels also known as angels of the face. According to the book of Jubilees, angels of the presence and angels of Sanctification are the two highest orders of angels. ...

The first story arc of her run was called Sliding In The Wreckage. Cliff's computer brain started to malfunction, and he regressed into flashbacks from previous storylines. Dorothy was haunted by African spirits while dealing with living alone in the real world. The Chief was given a new body by Will Magnus, but to atone for his sins, Caulder ripped his head off the body and was kept in cryogenic storage. Meanwhile, the entire Earth had been suffering from random outbreaks of weirdness, contributed by the arrival of something called "The Book of Ice." A government agency known as the Builders, similar to the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., were trying to stop the outbreak, which was apparently linked to a race of shapeshifters known as the Teiresias. As the Chief was kept in cryogenic state, he appeared in the land of the Teiresias as a face carved in a mountain. They warned him that his arrival in this world was causing the craziness in the real world. Throughout the storyline, little people with backwards letters for heads had been seen altering people. These people were apparently older version of nanomachines, referred to as "nannos." At the DP HQ Builder agents attacked and in the craziness, two of the Teiresias approached Dorothy with a new brain for Cliff, but to insert it she needed the Chief's expertise. In the Teiresias world, nannos "repaired" the Chief so he could live as a severed head. After his awakening, the craziness seemed to stop, and Dorothy, Cliff, and the Chief each realized that they needed to be together.

The team relocated to Violet Valley's Rainbow Estates, a house haunted by ghosts of those who died in sexual accidents. There, three new members joined. The Bandage People, George and Marion, who were once two workers for the Builders but managed to escape; and the Inner Child, a manifestation of the ghosts' purity and innocence. Another later newcomer of the team was Kate Godwin, aka Coagula, one of the first transsexual superheroes. A one-time ally of the team called the Identity Addict, who could become different superheroes by shedding his/her skin like a lizard, integrated him/herself back into the team while using the False Memory identity to change the team's memories, until he/she was kicked out by Dorothy. Coagula (real name Kate Godwin, birth name Clark Godwin) is a former member of Doom Patrol. ...

Villains that the team fought, besides the Builders, included the Fox and the Crow, two animal spirits whose feud Dorothy and Cliff were subsequently pulled into; the Master Cleaner, a being with a human fetus inside a bubble for a head who began "cleaning" the world by stripping it down to nothing and replacing the stolen items, including people, with a paper ticket; and a group of Hassidic healers who called themselves the False Healers and their leader, the Rabbi of Darkness.

Toward the end of the series, Cliff Steele's brain became entirely robotic, until Dorothy Spinner used her imaginary friends to "repair" it. The Chief would later die after trying to enter the Sephirot or Tree of Life. Category:Sephiroth      Sefirah redirects here. ...

A new artist, Ted McKeever, took over the artwork for the final 13 issues. Pollack continued writing the title until its cancellation with issue #87, in February 1995. Cover of the collected edition of Eddy Current Ted McKeever is an award-winning American Comics artist. ...

John Arcudi's Doom Patrol

The Doom Patrol during John Arcudi's run on the title. Art by Tan Eng Huat.

In December 2001, writer John Arcudi and artist Tan Eng Huat launched a new Doom Patrol series. The launch of this series also saw the return of the publication of the title from the Vertigo imprint back to DC Comics. The series lasted for 22 issues. Image File history File links Arcudi_Doom_Patrol. ... Image File history File links Arcudi_Doom_Patrol. ... John Arcudi is an American comic book writer best known for his work on titles such as Gen13, Major Bummer, and The Mask. ...

Arcudi's storylines revealed what happened to the previous team. Dorothy Spinner had had a mental breakdown and accidentally killed most of the members still with the team at the end of the Pollack run. She fell into a coma, but subconsciously created a new Robotman, who became a part of a new Doom Patrol. This Doom Patrol was a company-owned team by Jost Enterprises, owned and operated by Thayer Jost, for a while before working independently. Marvel used a similar theme several months later with X-Statix as a commercially run team. X-Statix was the name of a fictional team of mutant superheroes in Marvel Comics, specifically designed to be ironic media superstars. ...

The Robotman that Dorothy created faded away when it realized what it actually was, but the other teammates searched for Cliff Steele, who became a member of the Doom Patrol yet again. They found his brain in a desolated area of the Smokey Mountains, buried under the rubble of the campsite where Dorothy's breakdown occurred. A prosthetics expert who had defected from Russia rebuilt Cliff's body.

Jost, meanwhile, learned that he could not own the rights to the Doom Patrol, since the man who signed the rights over to him was not actually Cliff Steele. Instead, he tried to obtain guardianship of the brain-dead Dorothy. At the end of the series, Cliff pulled her life support.

Rounding out the four new members and Cliff were Elongated Man, Metamorpho, Doctor Light and Beast Boy, another former Doom Patroller. The Elongated Man is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC universe. ... Metamorpho (Rex Mason) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics. ... Doctor Light is a fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... Beast Boy (real name Garfield Mark Gar Logan) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a shapeshifting superhero who is a former member of the Doom Patrol and member of the Teen Titans. ...

John Byrne's Doom Patrol

Cover to Doom Patrol vol. 4, #1 (August 2004). Art by John Byrne.

In August 2004, DC launched a new Doom Patrol series after the new team debuted in JLA. John Byrne wrote and illustrated this series, with inks by Doug Hazlewood. Touted as "Together again for the first time!", Byrne rebooted the series, eliminating the continuity that dated back to the Silver Age. Download high resolution version (400x622, 75 KB)Doom Patrol 1 This image is a book cover. ... Download high resolution version (400x622, 75 KB)Doom Patrol 1 This image is a book cover. ... For other uses of John Byrne, see John Byrne (disambiguation). ... For the animated television series, see Justice League (TV series) or Justice League Unlimited. ...

This also retroactively eliminated Beast Boy's origins and numerous important Doom Patrol appearances, including the reunion of Beast Boy and Robotman in the 1980s Teen Titans and the team's important role in JLA: Year One. It also angered some of Morrison's fans, but DC editors argued that the team's classic line-up should be supported, especially since attempts to continue the current continuity had proven unsuccessful.^{[citation needed]} However, DC cancelled Byrne's series with issue #18.

This reboot was both controversial and short-lived. The events in DC's Infinite Crisis crossover saw the restoration of the Doom Patrol's full continuity, with the history of all previous incarnations, excluding Byrne's reboot. Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics, beginning in October of 2005. ...

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

Cover to Teen Titans vol. 3, #36 (July 2006), by Tony Daniel.

DC editorial used the events of the Infinite Crisis crossover to restore the Doom Patrol's continuity. In escaping from the paradise dimension they had inhabited since the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Superboy-Prime and Alexander Luthor created temporal ripples, which spread throughout reality, altering certain events, such as restoring Jason Todd to life. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a 12-issue American comic book limited series (identified as a 12-part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 to simplify their then-55-year-old continuity. ... Superboy-Prime is a fictional character, a superhero turned supervillain in the DC Universe. ... Alexander Luthor, Jr. ... Jason Peter Todd is a fictional character published in stories by DC Comics. ...

While assisting the Teen Titans in battling Superboy-Prime, members of the Doom Patrol had flashbacks to their original history. Robotman and Niles Caulder regained memories of the previous Doom Patrol teams with which they had worked. This battle apparently undid some of Superboy-Prime's timeline changes, and resulted in a timeline incorporating all previous incarnations of the Doom Patrol, but with Rita Farr and Larry Trainor still alive. The Chief confirmed that Rita was indeed killed by Zahl's explosion. The Chief claimed that he later found her skull and treated it with synthetic proteins until her malleable body was regrown from it.^[5]

Steve Dayton is again using the Mento helmet and he is mentally unstable; however, he remembers his time as the Crimelord. The Chief appears to be manipulating the Doom Patrol members once again; he claims to wish to return them to normal, so "maybe one day [they] won't be freaks anymore." After the Doom Patrol encounters the Titans, the Chief tells them that Kid Devil should be a member of the Doom Patrol instead of the Titans, since his unique appearance and nature will always separate him from others. However, Beast Boy, Elasti-Girl and Mento all stood up to the Chief and forced him to step down as the Doom Patrol's leader, with Mento taking over that role. Kid Devil (Edward Eddie Bloomberg) is a superhero in the DC Comics universe. ...

Recently, while fighting the Titans and the Doom Patrol, the Brain claimed that he had been the Chief's lab assistant, that his body had been destroyed in an explosion Caulder caused, and that he was to have been the original Robotman.

The whereabouts of Nudge, Grunt and Vortex have yet to be revealed.

The Doom Patrol later appeared in The Four Horsemen series (2007), with Caulder back in charge.

Trade paperbacks

The first parts of Morrison's run has been compiled into six Vertigo trade paperback editions: In comics, a trade paperback (TPB or simply trade) specifically refers to a collection of stories originally published in comic books reprinted in book format, usually capturing one story arc from a single title or a series of stories with a connected story arc or common theme from one or...

1. Crawling from the Wreckage (collects Doom Patrol #19-25, 2000, ISBN 1-56389-034-8)
2. The Painting That Ate Paris (collects Doom Patrol #26-34, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0342-6)
3. Down Paradise Way (collects Doom Patrol #35-41, 2005, ISBN 1-4012-0726-X)
4. Musclebound (collects Doom Patrol #42-50, August 2006 ISBN 1-4012-0999-8)
5. Magic Bus (collects Doom Patrol #51-57, January 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1202-6)
6. Planet Love (collects Doom Patrol #58-63 and Doom Force #1, January 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1624-2)^[6]

Some of the team's earlier outings have also been collected as The Doom Patrol Archives:

• Volume 1 (collects My Greatest Adventure/Doom Patrol #80-89, from 1963-1964, 222 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-4012-0150-4)
• Volume 2 (collects Doom Patrol #90-97, from 1964-1965, 213 pages, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0150-4)
• Volume 3 (collects Doom Patrol ##98-105 and Challengers of the Unknown #48, from 1966, 237 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-0766-9)

Tangent Comics

In 1997, DC released the Tangent Comics series of books, built on the premise of a world that diverged from the mainstream following the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The series featured characters with the same names as mainstream DC characters but who were otherwise unrelated to them. The series included a one-shot Doom Patrol title. This Doom Patrol consisted of four heroes--Doomsday, Star Sapphire, Firehawk and Rampage--who traveled back in time from 2030 to 1997 to prevent Earth's destruction. The Tangent books were later integrated into the DC Multiverse (as Earth-97) as part of the events of Infinite Crisis. Tangent Comics was a DC Comics imprint created in 1997-1998, developed from ideas created by Dan Jurgens. ... President Kennedy in a crowded Cabinet Room during the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics, beginning in October of 2005. ...

Other media

Television

On the Teen Titans animated series, the Doom Patrol made an appearance in the two-part episode "Homecoming", the fifth season premiere. Featuring Negative Man (Judge Reinhold), Robotman (Peter Onarati), Mento (Xander Berkeley), and Elasti-Girl (Tara Strong), this Doom Patrol was captured by the Brotherhood of Evil, with only Robotman free to save his comrades. After Robotman successfully sought out former Doom Patroller Beast Boy, he and the Teen Titans teamed up to rescue the Doom Patrol. In flashbacks to Beast Boy's Doom Patrol days, it is clear that Mento and Elasti-Girl play parental roles toward the young masked hero. When Beast Boy has to make the choice to defeat the Brotherhood of Evil or save his friends in both teams, he elects to save his friends, a decision denounced by Mento and lauded by the Titans. Teen Titans was an American animated television series created by Sam Register and Glen Murakami and produced by Warner Bros. ... Judge Reinhold is the stage name of Edward Ernest Reinhold, Jr. ... Xander Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is a well-known American actor, who, despite having had few leading roles, has appeared in more than 80 motion pictures. ... Tara Lynn Charendoff-Strong (b. ... Beast Boy (real name Garfield Mark Gar Logan) is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe, a shapeshifting superhero who is a former member of the Doom Patrol and member of the Teen Titans. ...

The Chief is absent in the series. Mento acts as the team leader.

Throughout the fifth season of Teen Titans, the team faces the menace of the Brotherhood, who wish to destroy all of the world's young heroes. The Titans gather these heroes, issuing each a Titans communicator and membership on the team. Finally, in a climactic battle, the Titans all work together and defeat the Brotherhood of Evil.^[7]

Film

• Variety reported on July 19, 2006 that Warner Bros. has hired Adam Turner to pen a screenplay to bring Doom Patrol to the big screen.^[8] However, as of June 2007, no director, cast, or release date has been announced.
• The original Doom Patrol had one cameo appearance in the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier.

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Trivia

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• In the film The Incredibles (2004), Helen Parr's hero name is Elasti-Girl (voiced by Holly Hunter). Pixar received permission from DC Comics to use the name in the film as long as it wasn't used in the merchandising.^{[citation needed]} In the merchandising she's referred to as Mrs. Incredible.

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Dayton Manor

The Doom Patrol's current headquarters, Dayton Manor, houses artifacts collected throughout the team's history, including:

• Portraits of Dorothy Spinner, Celsius, Crazy Jane and Fever (whose head is illustrated with smoke emanating from the top of it).
• The Quiz's filtered gown/gas mask.
• A portrait of Mister Nobody.
• A portal into Danny the World wherein could be glimpsed Crazy Jane, waving out to the world.
• The Painting that Ate Paris, now a mural, hides the door to the Chief's operating room.
• A statue of someone resembling Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.
• A ballroom that exhibits odd weather patterns.
• A greenhouse with at least one talking lemon tree.

References

• Callahan, Timothy (2007) Grant Morrison: The Early Years. Masters of the Medium. Sequart.com Books. ISBN 0615140874

Footnotes

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See also

• List of Doom Patrol members

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External links

• Doom Patrol fansite
• Simon Bisley Doom Patrol Covers
• Fanzing.com article on the Doom Patrol
• DC Cosmic Teams: Doom Patrol
• Grand Comics Database: Doom Patrol Appearances
• More information on the Doom Patrol