In this second helping of Silver Age Doom Patrol adventures, the world's strangest super-team investigates the mystery of the blue stone monkeys that are driving men to murder! Plus, General Immortus, Garguax, and the Brotherhood of Evil scheme to turn humanity into crystal beings under their control! Collects Doom Patrol #96-107, Challengers of the Unknown #48, and The Brave and the Bold #65.
Out of the Silver Age of Comics came a very different comic book team, featuring a new breed of superheroes. Cast out of society due to their deformities, the Doom Patrol were a group of misfit loners not blessed, but cursed, with unnatural powers. These human odditiesÑElasti-Girl, Negative Man, Robotman and the ChiefÑsave the world one strange case at a time. See them take on such equally bizarre villains like the undying criminal mastermind General Immortus, shape-shifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, the Brotherhood of Evil and more! Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Volume One kicks off Arnold Drake and Bruno PremianiÕs beloved series with tales from My Greatest Adventure #80-85 and The Doom Patrol #86-95.
They were outcast heroes, bound together by fate, led by their mysterious, wheelchair-bound Chief: Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and Beast Boy.Their strange powers made them the objects of fear instead of hero worship. In the 1960s, they were the most unusual super-team comics readers had ever seen. In this fourth volume of their Archive series, the Doom Patrol faces such bizarre menaces as Mr. 103, Ultimax, and the Brotherhood of Evil, including the duo of the Braina disembodied, super-intelligent brainand Monsieur Mallah, an evil, talking ape who speaks with a French accent.
The new Doom Patrol puts itself back together after nearly being destroyed, and things start to get a lot weirder for everybody. The Chief leads Robotman, the recently formed Rebis and new member Crazy Jane against the Scissormen, part of a dangerous philosophical location that has escaped into our world and is threatening to engulf reality itself. Collecting Grant Morrison's definitive run, which launched his career as one of the comic industry's most innovative and creative writers! Collects Doom Patrol #19-63 and Doom Force Special #1.
ÒAbsolutely recommended for readers in search of something a bit off and highly experimental.Ó ÑVice ÒManages that delicate task of honoring the franchiseÕs roots while looking ahead to the future.Ó ÑIGN ÒGood and freakinÕ weird, just like itÕs supposed to be.Ó Ñio9 ÒItÕs wild, itÕs crazy and I love every second of it!Ó ÑComicosity Who is Eddie Zilch, and what exactly is he selling? Of all the questions the Doom Patrol has faced in its long and hallucinogenic history, these may prove to be the weirdest yet. A mysterious consumer product that Òmakes everything betterÓ is threatening to turn the comfortably odd existence of Robotman, Flex Mentallo, Crazy Jane, Negative Man and Casey Brinke inside outÑalong with the rest of the world! Not even the return of the Chief himself, Niles Caulder, can stop people from swallowing ZilchÕs pitch. But someone had better do somethingÑbecause one of the Doom PatrolÕs oldest enemies is on the comeback trail, with an entire new Brotherhood of Nada in tow. The secrets of Lotion the Cat and Terry None are also about to be revealed, and an insidious plot to turn the Doom Patrol into something normal is in play. Will Cliff, Casey and company be able to stop the madnessÑbefore the madness stops? Find out in Doom Patrol Vol. 2: NadaÑa multidimensional milestone in the celebrated saga of the WorldÕs Strangest Heroes, made fresh for you by the Eisner Award-winning creator of The Umbrella Academy and My Chemical Romance co-founder Gerard Way and acclaimed artists Nick Derington, Tom Fowler, Michael Allred and Dan McDaid! Collects issues #7-12.
"THE DOOM PATROL, NEGATIVE MAN, ELASTI-GIRL, ROBOTMAN, THE CHIEF, BEAST BOY, MENTO, GENERAL IMMORTUS, GARGUAX, AND MOR. 103 THE ATOM SMASHER created by Arnold Drake; SUPERMAN created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. By special arrangement with the Jerry Siegel family"
The Thing. Daredevil. Captain Marvel. The Human Fly. Drawing on DC and Marvel comics from the 1950s to the 1990s and marshaling insights from three burgeoning fields of inquiry in the humanities—disability studies, death and dying studies, and comics studies—José Alaniz seeks to redefine the contemporary understanding of the superhero. Beginning in the Silver Age, the genre increasingly challenged and complicated its hypermasculine, quasi-eugenicist biases through such disabled figures as Ben Grimm/The Thing, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, and the Doom Patrol. Alaniz traces how the superhero became increasingly vulnerable, ill, and mortal in this era. He then proceeds to a reinterpretation of characters and series—some familiar (Superman), some obscure (She-Thing). These genre changes reflected a wider awareness of related body issues in the postwar U.S. as represented by hospice, death with dignity, and disability rights movements. The persistent highlighting of the body's “imperfection” comes to forge a predominant aspect of the superheroic self. Such moves, originally part of the Silver Age strategy to stimulate sympathy, enhance psychological depth, and raise the dramatic stakes, developed further in such later series as The Human Fly, Strikeforce: Morituri, and the landmark graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel, all examined in this volume. Death and disability, presumed routinely absent or denied in the superhero genre, emerge to form a core theme and defining function of the Silver Age and beyond.
The Doom Patrol, stars of the new series on the DC Universe streaming service, have their 2004 series by X-Men artist John Byrne collected in hardcover for the first time. The World's Strangest Heroes are back, in the way that only the legendary writer/artist John Byrne can deliver Picking up in the wake of the events of "The Tenth Circle" saga in JLA, this series reunites Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and Niles Caulder with a host of edgy new heroes. Byrne, best known for his unforgettable work on Marvel's X-Men and Fantastic Four, picked up threads of his previous story from the JLA to reintroduce the Doom Patrol. Along the way, the team encounters the vampiric threat of Crucifer, heads to the Antarctic to stop a pack of mysterious creatures from before the dawn of time, rescues a team of scientists conducting ocean research from an ancient, deadly species of monsters and much more. Collects Doom Patrol (2004) #1-18 JLA #94-99, the Doom Patrol adventure from Secret Origins Annual #1, Superman #20 and behind the scenes material.
