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. Mal Duncan, currently known as Vox, is a fictional character from DC Comics. Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, also known as Beast Boy or Changeling, is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in Comic Bumblebee ( Karen Beecher-Duncan) is a former member of the Superhero team Teen Titans and a current member of the superhero team the Doom Negative Man is a fictional Superhero from DC Comics. He first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 Elasti-Girl is a Fictional character, 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 the leader of the Doom Patrol. Robotman is the name of a Fictional character, a DC Comics Superhero. 3, #35 (June 2006). Art by Tony Daniel. Tony Daniel is an American Comic book penciller and artist Biography After working with Image Comics and Marvel Comics, he gained status
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics/Vertigo
First appearance	My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
Created by	Bob Haney Arnold Drake Bruno Premiani Murray Boltinoff
In story information
Base(s)	Dayton Manor
Member(s)	Beast Boy Bumblebee The Chief Elasti-Girl Mento Negative Man Robotman Vox
Roster
See:List of Doom Patrol members

The Doom Patrol is a fictional superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Vertigo is an Imprint of the American Comic-book publisher DC Comics. In Comic books and other stories with a long history first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a Fictional character. Robert "Bob" Haney ( 1926 - November 25, 2004) was an American Comic book writer best known for his work for DC Arnold Drake ( March 1, 1924 &ndash March 12, 2007) was an American Comic book Writer and Screenwriter Bruno Premiani (1907-1984 was an Illustrator known for his work for several Comic book publishers particularly DC Comics. Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, also known as Beast Boy or Changeling, is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in Comic Bumblebee ( Karen Beecher-Duncan) is a former member of the Superhero team Teen Titans and a current member of the superhero team the Doom The Chief ( Dr Niles Caulder) is a Fictional character from DC Comics and the leader of the Doom Patrol. Elasti-Girl is a Fictional character, a Superhero of the DC Comics universe and a member of the Doom Patrol. Mento is a fictional Superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Doom Patrol #91 (November 1964 and was created by Arnold Drake Negative Man is a fictional Superhero from DC Comics. He first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 Robotman is the name of a Fictional character, a DC Comics Superhero. Mal Duncan, currently known as Vox, is a fictional character from DC Comics. The Doom Patrol is a team of Comic book Superheroes as published by DC Comics. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963). Writers Bob Haney and Arnold Drake, artist Bruno Premiani and editor Murray Boltinoff created the team. Robert "Bob" Haney ( 1926 - November 25, 2004) was an American Comic book writer best known for his work for DC Arnold Drake ( March 1, 1924 &ndash March 12, 2007) was an American Comic book Writer and Screenwriter Bruno Premiani (1907-1984 was an Illustrator known for his work for several Comic book publishers particularly DC Comics. The Doom Patrol has since appeared in multiple incarnations.

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 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. Robotman is the name of a Fictional character, a DC Comics Superhero.

Contents 1 The Original Doom Patrol 2 Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol 2.1 Testing the waters 2.2 Prelude to the relaunch 2.3 The relaunch 3 Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol 4 Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol 5 John Arcudi's Doom Patrol 6 John Byrne's Doom Patrol 7 Infinite Crisis and One Year Later 8 Trade paperbacks 9 Tangent Comics 10 Other media 10.1 Television 11 Film 11.1 Animation 12 Trivia 13 Dayton Manor 14 References 14.1 Footnotes 15 See also 16 External links

The Original Doom Patrol

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. My Greatest Adventure was a DC Comics Comic book that began in 1955 and is best known as the original title for the Superhero 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. Doctor Niles Caulder motivated the original Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, to use their powers for the greater good. The Chief ( Dr Niles Caulder) is a Fictional character from DC Comics and the leader of the Doom Patrol. The series was such a success that My Greatest Adventure was officially retitled The Doom Patrol beginning with issue #86.

The Doom Patrol's rogues gallery matched the strange, weird tone of the series. Villains included the immortality-seeking General Immortus, the shapeshifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and the Brotherhood of Evil led by the Brain, an actual brain kept alive by technology. General Immortus is a Fictional character, a DC Comics villain Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is a Fictional Supervillain from the DC Universe and a foe of the original Doom Patrol. For the team of mutant terrorists see Brotherhood of Mutants The Brotherhood of Evil is a Fictional group of DC Comics The Brain is a DC Comics supervillain and frequent enemy of the Doom Patrol. The Brotherhood of Evil also included the intelligent gorilla Monsieur Mallah and Madame Rouge, who was given powers similar to those of Elongated Man, with the extra attribute of a malleable face, allowing her to impersonate various people. Gorillas, the largest of the living Primates are ground-dwelling Herbivores that inhabit the Forests of Africa. Monsieur Mallah is a Fictional character, a sapient gorilla with a Genius level IQ. Madame Rouge is a fictional DC Comics Supervillainess. She first appeared in Doom Patrol v The Elongated Man ( Ralph Dibny) is a fictional Comic book Superhero in the DC universe.

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. The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean This marked the first time in comic book history that a canceled book ended by having most of its 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, although the latter was supposed to have been Drake. According to the writer, he was replaced with the editor because he had just resigned over a pay dispute and moved to Marvel Comics. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc He finished the script only out of friendship for Boltinoff. ^[1] A few years later, three more issues appeared in DC's short-lived attempt to copy Marvel's line of series reprint titles (as opposed to DC's anthology reprint titles). A Doom Patrol revival did not occur until nine years after the original's demise.

Some similarities exist between the original Doom Patrol and Marvel Comics' original X-Men. The X-Men is a team of fictional Superhero characters in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. 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 argue that the concept of the X-Men must have been based on the Doom Patrol.

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. )^[2]

However, others have noted that the Doom Patrol shares fundamental similarities with Stan Lee's earlier title, Fantastic Four. The Fantastic Four is a fictional Superhero team appearing in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original lineup of both teams included four members, who did not have secret/double identities; each had a headquarters that was a public building in the middle of a major city; 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, with bitterness at being trapped in it (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. ^[3] One commentator has stated that “it is considered common knowledge that the Doom Patrol was inspired by The Fantastic Four”. ^[4]

Paul Kupperberg's Doom Patrol

Testing the waters

Writer Paul Kupperberg, a longtime Doom Patrol fan, and artist Joe Staton introduced a new team in Showcase #94 (August-September 1977). Paul Kupperberg (b 1955 is a former Editor for DC Comics, and a prolific Writer of Comic books and newspaper strips. Joe Staton (born January 19, 1948) is an American illustrator and writer of Comic books. Showcase has been the title of several Anthology series published by DC Comics. An Indian-born woman named Arani Desai, who called herself Celsius and claimed to be the wife of Niles Caulder, whom she believed to be still alive, led this team with the intent of finding him. Celsius is the Superhero alias of Arani Desai, a fictional character in the DC Comics series Doom Patrol. This run also revealed the whereabouts of the Negative Spirit, which now possessed Russian cosmonaut Valentina Vostok, making her Negative Woman (although its presence did not render her radioactive, and she was able to transform her own body into its form rather than sending it out under control. Valentina Vostok (alternately spelled Valentina Vostock) is a Fictional character by DC Comics. It also revealed Robotman as the only survivor of the explosion that killed his teammates, his head, upper torso and one arm being left in one piece that could keep his brain alive and allow him to drag himself to shore. A man standing on that beach (appearing and later conceded to be Dr. Will Magnus of Metal Men fame) built him a new, futuristic robot body. Doctor Will Magnus is a fictional human scientist in the DC Comics universe. The Metal Men are Fictional characters, a team of Robot Superheroes created by writer Robert Kanigher, pencilled by Ross Andru and This new version of the team followed its three-issue tryout with a series of guest appearances in various DC titles, such as Superman Family (in a three part arc in the Supergirl feature that was intended for the recently cancelled Super-Team Family), DC Comics Presents (teaming up with Superman, and which revealed that Vostok's powers had changed to match Larry Trainor's exactly)) and Supergirl. Superman Family was a DC Comics Comic book series which ran from 1974 to 1982 featuring primarily stories starring supporting Supergirl is a fictional Comic book superheroine that is depicted as a female counterpart to the DC Comics iconic Superhero Superman Super-Team Family is an Comic book anthology series published by DC Comics in the 1970s that lasted for fifteen issues DC Comics Presents is a Comic book published by DC Comics from 1978 to 1986 (97 issues plus 4 annuals) featuring team-ups Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Supergirl is a fictional Comic book superheroine that is depicted as a female counterpart to the DC Comics iconic Superhero Superman Robotman also appeared as an occasional supporting character in the Marv Wolfman and George Pérez era of Teen Titans, where it was revealed that Changeling, formerly DP associate Beast Boy, had arranged for Dayton Industries technicians to recreate the Caulder body design for Cliff. Marvin A "Marv" Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an award-winning American Comic book Writer. George Pérez (born June 9, 1954) is an illustrator and writer of Comic books born of Latin-American (Puerto-Rican descent For the animated TV series based on this comic see Teen Titans (TV series. His first storyline here had him and the Titans finally bringing the murderers of the original Doom Patrol to justice. The final member of this team was Tempest aka Joshua Clay, a Vietnam veteran/deserter. Joshua Clay (Tempest is a Fictional character, a member of the Superhero team Doom Patrol in Comic books published by DC Comics. Tempest's power was energy blasts from his hands. In addition to a typical comic book blast effect, Tempest would use the blast to propel himself through the air.

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. Eclipse Comics was an American Comic book Publisher, one of several influential independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s 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 John Lindley Byrne (born July 6 1950) is a British -born Canadian - American author and artist of Comic books Since the 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.

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. Steve Lightle (born November 19, 1959 Erik J Larsen (born December 8, 1962) is an American Comic book writer artist and publisher It included new members who were hired to the team: the magnetically-empowered strong-girl Lodestone; Karma, whose psychic power made sure that 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. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist

Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol

After the first 18 issues (and various crossovers and annuals), Kupperberg was replaced by Grant Morrison, starting with issue #19. Grant Morrison (born January 31 1960 is a Scottish Comic book writer and artist 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. Joshua Clay (Tempest is a Fictional character, a member of the Superhero team Doom Patrol in Comic books published by DC Comics. Conversely, Morrison picked up a throw-away character from DP #14, who was slipped into the art on the last page of #18 to set up Morrison's use, Dorothy Spinner, an ape-faced girl with powerful "imaginary friends. Dorothy Spinner is a fictional character created by Paul Kupperberg and owned by DC Comics. " The new writer introduced some new characters to the team, including the multiple personality-afflicted Crazy Jane; and sentient roadway Danny the Street. Crazy Jane is a Fictional character created by Grant Morrison and Richard Case for their work on the Vertigo Comics version of the Danny the Street is a Fictional character in the DC Universe.

Morrison used DC's Invasion crossover to restart the book. Invasion! was a three issue Comic book Limited series and crossover event published in late 1988 -early 1989 by 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. Secret society is a term used to describe a variety of organizations For other meanings see Dada (disambiguation DaDa is a Concept album by Alice Cooper, released Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members The cut-up technique, also known as fishbowling, is an Aleatory Literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at Random William Seward Burroughs II ( – ˈbʌroʊz was an American Novelist, Essayist, Social critic, painter and Spoken word Brion Gysin ( January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, Writer, Sound poet, and Performance He also borrowed the ideas of Jorge Luis Borges and Heinrich Hoffmann. Heinrich Hoffmann ( September 12 1885 in Fürth - December 11 1957 in Munich) was a German photographer best known for his Morrison and artist Richard Case turned the title around, and the series quickly gained a cult following, but some derided it as incomprehensible. Richard Case (born 1964 is an American Comics artist, most often seen published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. The original creator Arnold Drake, disagreed, maintaining that Morrison's was the only subsequent run to reflect the intent of the original series. ^[5]

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. Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber; December 28, 1922) is an American Writer, editor, creator of comic book characters Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg, August 28, 1917 &ndash February 6, 1994) was an American Comic book Galactus is a Fictional character that appears in Comic books published by Marvel Comics. 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. X-Force is a Fictional Marvel Comics Superhero team one of several Spin-offs of the popular X-Men franchise Rob Liefeld, (born October 3 1967) is an American Comic book writer illustrator and publisher Issue #45 parodied Marvel's Punisher in a satire called the Beard Hunter. The Punisher ( Frank Castle) is a fictional Antihero that appears in the Comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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:

• Red Jack is a near-omnipotent being who thinks he is both Jack the Ripper and God. Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified Serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. 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. The Brotherhood of Dada is a group of Fictional characters in the DC universe. 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. Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American Singer-songwriter, Musician, arranger, producer and conductor
• The Scissormen, a fictional race of beings that attack non-fictional beings in the "real world" (i. In the DC Comic book Doom Patrol, the Scissormen are a fictional race of beings that come from the Metafictional city of Orqwith 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. Nanorobotics is the technology of creating machines or Robots at or close to the microscopic scale of a Nanometres (10-9 Metres. This article refers to the study of dynamical systems For other meanings see Catastrophe. However, Caulder did not anticipate being decapitated by one of Dorothy's "imaginary" beings, a malign entity called the Candlemaker.

Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol

Morrison left the book with issue #63, and Rachel Pollack took over writing the book the next issue. Rachel Pollack is an American Science fiction author Comic book writer and expert on Divinatory tarot. 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). Vertigo is an Imprint of the American Comic-book publisher DC Comics. 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. A generation gap is a popular term used to describe big differences between people of a younger generation and their elders Humanity or mankind is the Human species Human nature (eg Compassion, Altruism) and the Human condition (the totality Transgenderism is a Social movement seeking Transgender rights and affirming transgender Pride. Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of both sexes or to a bisexual orientation Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, " Judah " in Hebrew יַהֲדוּת Yahedut Kabbalah (קַבָּלָה lit "receiving" is a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspect of Judaism. The angel Akatriel is used as a major character in the last four issues. Angels of Presence are high-level angels also known as "angels of the face"

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. Coagula (real name Kate Godwin, birth name Clark Godwin) is a Fictional character and former member of DC Comic 's Doom Patrol 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.

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. Sephirot "enumerations" '''Sephiroth''' '''Sefiroth''' (סְפִירוֹת singular Sephirah also Sefirah (סְפִירָה "enumeration" in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]

A new artist, Ted McKeever, took over the artwork for the final 13 issues. Ted McKeever is an award-winning American comics artist known for his dark distorted and highly stylized art style Pollack continued writing the title until its cancellation with issue #87, in February 1995.

John Arcudi's Doom Patrol

In December 2001, writer John Arcudi and artist Tan Eng Huat launched a new Doom Patrol series. John Arcudi is an American Comic book writer best known for his work on The Mask and B 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.

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 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. The Elongated Man ( Ralph Dibny) is a fictional Comic book Superhero in the DC universe. Metamorpho (real name Rex Mason, also called The Element Man) is a Fictional character, a Superhero in the DC Universe. Doctor Light is a Fictional Comic book Superhero in the DC Comics universe. Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, also known as Beast Boy or Changeling, is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in Comic The last named had initially been closely associated with the original Doom Patrol, but had never formally joined the team.

John Byrne's Doom Patrol

In August 2004, DC launched a new Doom Patrol series after the new team debuted in JLA. The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. 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.

This also retroactively eliminated Beast Boy's origins and numerous important Doom Patrol appearances, including the reunions of Beast Boy (then called Changeling) and Robotman in the 1980s New 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 Morrison/Vertigo continuity had proven unsuccessful. Three new characters (Nudge, Grunt and Vortex) were introduced and utilized throughout the series run.

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 is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George

Infinite Crisis and One Year Later

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 is a twelve-issue American comic book Limited series (identified as a "12-part maxi-series" and crossover Alexander Luthor Jr is a DC Comics character who turned from a hero to a villain Jason Todd is a Fictional character appearing in Comic books published by DC Comics.

In the reprinted edition of Infinite Crisis, additional scenes added to the collection showed Fever, Kid Slick, and Ava among a two-page spread of heroes. ^[6]

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. ^[7]

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. Red Devil (Edward "Eddie" Bloomberg, formerly known as Kid Devil, is a Superhero in the DC Comics universe 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.

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.

Two former members of the Teen Titans were dramatically altered during the course of the Infinite Crisis. Mal Duncan, now code named Vox, and his wife (Bumblebee) now reside in the Doom Patrol castle headquarters. Mal Duncan, currently known as Vox, is a fictional character from DC Comics. Bumblebee ( Karen Beecher-Duncan) is a former member of the Superhero team Teen Titans and a current member of the superhero team the Doom

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

Morrison's run has been compiled into six Vertigo trade paperback editions:

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)^[8]

Drake and Premiani's run is available in part 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)
• Volume 4 (collects Doom Patrol #106-113 from 1966-1967, 207 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-4012-1646-3)
• Volume 5 (collects Doom Patrol #113-121 from 1968, 208 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1720-4) To be released July 08, 2008

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. In Comics, a trade paperback ( TPB or simply trade) refers to a collection of stories originally published in comic books, reprinted in book format Tangent Comics was a DC Comics Imprint created in 1997-1998 developed from ideas created by Dan Jurgens. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War. 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. Infinite Crisis is a seven-issue Limited series of Comic books written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez, George

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. Teen Titans is an American animated television series created by Sam Register and Glen Murakami, developed by David Slack 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. Judge Reinhold (born May 21 1957) is an American Actor, perhaps best known for co-starring in movies such as Beverly Hills Cop Alexander Harper Berkeley (born December 16, 1955) is an American Actor. Tara Lynn Charendoff Strong (born February 12 1973 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian voice actress and Singer After Robotman successfully sought out former Doom Patroller Beast Boy, he and the Teen Titans teamed up to rescue the Doom Patrol. Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan, also known as Beast Boy or Changeling, is a Fictional character, a Superhero appearing in Comic 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.

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. ^[9]

Film

Main article: Doom Patrol (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. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and ^[10] However, as of April 2008, no director, cast, or release date has been announced.

Animation

The original Doom Patrol had one cameo appearance in the animated film Justice League: The New Frontier. Justice League The New Frontier is a Direct-to-video Animated film adaptation of the popular DC comic limited series

Trivia

• In the film The Incredibles (2004), Helen Parr's hero name is Elasti-Girl (voiced by Holly Hunter). The Incredibles is a 2004 Computer-animated feature Film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, Holly P Hunter (born 20 March 1958 is an Oscar -winning American actor best-known for films such as Raising Arizona, Broadcast News Pixar received permission from DC Comics to use the name in the film as long as it wasn't used in the merchandising. Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville California. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company In the merchandising she's referred to as Mrs. Incredible.

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

See also

• List of Doom Patrol members

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

The Doom Patrol is a team of Comic book Superheroes as published by DC Comics.

---

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic