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. Since then, there have been six Doom Patrol series, with Robotman as the only character to appear in all of them.Ĭover 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. 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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