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 Cover ofDoom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1 (September 2019), depicting theseventh roster of the Doom Patrol: (clockwise from top) Lucius Reynolds,Crazy Jane,Robotman's head,Negative Man, Lotion the Cat,Elasti-Girl,Flex Mentallo, Casey Brinke, and Fugg. Art by Nick Derington. | |
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963) |
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| Base(s) | Former:
Current: The Shelter |
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| See:List of Doom Patrol members | |
Doom Patrol is asuperheroteam fromDC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared inMy Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963),[1] and was created by writersArnold Drake andBob Haney, along with artistBruno Premiani. Doom Patrol has appeared in different incarnations in multiple comics, and have been adapted to other media. The series' creator has suspected thatMarvel Comics copied the basic concept to create theX-Men, which debuted a few months later.
Doom Patrol is a group of super-powered misfits whose "gifts" caused them alienation and trauma. Dubbed the "world's strangest heroes" by editorMurray Boltinoff,[2] the original team included theChief (Niles Caulder),Robotman (Cliff Steele),Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr), andNegative Man (Larry Trainor);Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) andMento (Steve Dayton) joined soon after. The team remained the featured characters ofMy Greatest Adventure, which was re-titledDoom Patrol as of issue #86 (March 1964). 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 did not return until 1987, after writerPaul Kupperberg killed most of the new team during theInvasion! event. Beginning with issue #19 of the second volume of Doom Patrol, Scottish comic writerGrant Morrison transformed the title into a much more surreal and bizarre story that explored topics of mental health, gender identity, and sexual discovery in an abstract manner. Morrison's run garnered critical acclaim, and the mature themes of their stories led to the comic being integrated intoVertigo Comics.
Doom Patrol first appeared in 1963, when the DC titleMy Greatest Adventure, an adventure anthology, was being converted to a superhero format. The task, assigned to writer Arnold Drake, was to create a team that fit both of these formats. 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.[1] According to Drake, editor Murray Boltinoff told himMy Greatest Adventure was in danger of cancellation and he wanted him to create a new feature which might save it.[2] Boltinoff was enthusiastic about Drake's initial pitch withElasti-Girl and Automaton (changed toRobotman by the team's third appearance, issue #82), but Drake wanted a third character and enlisted Haney's help in coming up withNegative Man.[2] The team was initially announced as "The Legion of the Strange".[3]
Doom Patrol were announced on the cover art ofMy Greatest Adventure #80 (cover dated June 1963). 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).[2] Niles Caulder motivated the original Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, to use their powers for the greater good.My Greatest Adventure was officially retitledThe Doom Patrol beginning with issue #86.
In an interview, Drake discussed the conception of Doom Patrol.[4]
Murray Boltinoff the editor, came to me one day, or I went to him one day and he said, "We're having a lot of trouble withMy Greatest Adventure, it's starting to lay an egg. The era of the superhero has taken over completely.My Greatest Adventure has ordinary heroes. We need some kind of superhero to punch it up." So I said okay, went out and came back a couple of hours later with the basic idea about the man in the wheelchair who is the great brain, and runs this group of superheroes who hate being superheroes. That was the new aspect. That was the thing that made Doom Patrol different, these people hated being superheroes. And they were a little bit self-pitying, just a little bit, and the chief was constantly telling them, "Stop crying in your beer." That made them something that wasn't around at the time.
The members of the Doom Patrol often quarrelled and had personal problems, something that was already common among superhero teams published byMarvel Comics such asFantastic Four, but was novel among the DC lineup.[5] Doom Patrol's rogues gallery matched the strange, weird tone of the series.[2] Villains included the immortality-seekingGeneral Immortus, the shape-shiftingAnimal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and theBrotherhood of Evil led by theBrain, a disembodied brain kept alive by technology. The Brotherhood of Evil also included the intelligentgorillaMonsieur Mallah andMadame Rouge, who was given powers similar to those ofElongated Man, with the extra attribute of a malleable face, allowing her to impersonate various people.
The Doom Patrol had two crossovers: one with theChallengers of the Unknown, teaming up to fight Multi-Man and Multi-Woman; and second with the Flash inThe Brave and the Bold #65.
As the popularity of the book waned, the publisher cancelled it. Drake killed off the entire Doom Patrol in the final issue,Doom Patrol #121 (September–October 1968) where Doom Patrol sacrificed their lives to Madame Rouge andGeneral Zahl to save the small fishing village ofCodsville,Maine. This was the first time in comic book history that a cancelled title was concluded with the death of its cast.[citation needed] 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 Doom Patrol, although the latter was supposed to have been Arnold Drake.[6] According to the writer, he was replaced with the editor because he had just resigned over a pay dispute and moved to Marvel Comics. He finished the script only out of friendship for Boltinoff.[7] A few years later, three more issues appeared, reprints of earlier issues (#89, #95 and #90 appeared as #122, #123 and #124 respectively). A properDoom Patrol revival did not occur until 1977, nine years after the original's demise.
Some similarities exist between the original Doom Patrol and Marvel Comics' originalX-Men;[8] Marvel acknowledged the similarity in its humor titleNot Brand Echh.[9] Both include misfit superheroes shunned by society and both are led by men of preternatural intelligence who use 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.[10]
In an interview shortly before his death in 2007, Drake took a more moderate position, stating that while it is possible Lee took his ideas from Doom Patrol, he could also have arrived at a similar concept independently: "Since we were working in the same vineyards, and if you do enough of that stuff, sooner or later, you will kind of look like you are imitating each other."[2]
The four lead characters of the original series have much in common with the members of The Fantastic Four. Both teams, composed of a woman and three men, have one member with stretching powers, another with great strength trapped in a distorted or inhuman orange body, and a third whose form seems ablaze with fire or energy. One can extend the comparison by saying that the fourth member is either invisible or behind the scenes. This has inspired fan speculation that The Doom Patrol was inspired by, or imitative of, the earlier series.[11] John Byrne, who has written and drawn all three sets of characters, has written that "I wish someone would ask Arnold Drake about the Doom Patrol's similarities with the Fantastic Four, instead of always bringing up the X-Men comparison."[12]
WriterPaul Kupperberg, a longtimeDoom Patrol fan, and artistJoe Staton introduced a new team inShowcase #94 (August–September 1977).[13] DC was then lining up features for theShowcase revival—the series was initially an anthology that would debut new characters who could springboard into their own series if they proved sufficiently popular, andShowcase #94 was the first new issue of the series in almost seven years. EditorPaul Levitz instructed Kupperberg and Staton to do a Doom Patrol feature.[14] Kupperberg opted to create a new lineup because he wanted to respect the story in which the Doom Patrol met their deaths, and was inspired byLen Wein andDave Cockrum's then-recent "all-new, all-different X-Men".[15] Kupperberg has since said he is not proud of the reboot, remarking that "[I was] missing the point of the Doom Patrol. The original group were outsiders and freaks, while my new guys were just comic-book superheroes. I was young and inexperienced and new to writing, with about two years under my belt before getting the gig."[14]
The new team is led byCelsius (Arani Desai), the Chief's previously unseen wife, who recreates the Doom Patrol to protect herself from General Immortus. Robotman is the only survivor of the original Doom Patrol, and his ruined body is replaced by a new, futuristic one built byWill Magnus. The Negative Spirit now possesses RussiancosmonautValentina Vostok, making her Negative Woman (although its presence does not render her radioactive), and she is able to transform her own body into its form rather than sending it out under control. The final member is Tempest akaJoshua Clay, a Vietnam veteran/deserter who fires energy blasts from his hands.[16]
This new version of the team did not receive its own series following its three-issue tryout. Kupperberg said this was most likely due to poor sales, as even in the months prior to theDC Implosion he heard no word of a newDoom Patrol series.[14] However, the team did receive a series of guest appearances in various DC titles, such asSuperman Family (in a three part arc in theSupergirl feature that was intended for the recently canceledSuper-Team Family),[17]DC Comics Presents (teaming up withSuperman in a story which revealed that Vostok's powers had changed to match Larry Trainor's exactly), andSupergirl. Robotman also appeared as an occasional supporting character in theMarv Wolfman andGeorge Pérez era ofTeen Titans, where it was revealed that Changeling, formerly DP associateBeast Boy, had arranged for Dayton Industries technicians to recreate the Caulder body design for Cliff. His first storyline here had him, the Titans, and a newBrotherhood of Evil battleMadame Rouge andGeneral Zahl, the murderers of the original Doom Patrol, who died in the battle.
Eclipse Comics publishedDoom Patrol: The Official Index with covers drawn byJohn Byrne in 1984. The two-part series included all of their appearances fromMy Greatest Adventure #80 to their final appearance before their 1980s return.
Kupperberg's enthusiasm for the Doom Patrol remained, and in addition to writing some of the team's post-Showcase appearances, he eventually wrote a proposal for a new Doom Patrol series.[14] The proposal was green-lit, and Kupperberg laid the groundwork for the new series by writing the John Byrne-illustratedSecret Origins Annual #1, published in 1987, which recapped the origins of the two iterations of the Doom Patrol that had existed thus far. In October 1987, DC relaunchedDoom Patrol, written by Kupperberg and illustrated bySteve Lightle.[18] Lightle took on the assignment with reluctance, having read and disliked Kupperberg's new Doom Patrol inShowcase #94–96, and soon quit due to several grievances, such as not being involved in plotting the comic despite the editor repeatedly promising that he would be.[19] He was replaced by a youngErik Larsen after issue #5. Kupperberg later commented, "I like Erik's work, but I don't think he was exactly right for the Doom Patrol. To tell the truth, I don't think either Erik or myself were happy with the arrangement, but we did our best to make it work."[14] For his part, Larsen said he was perfectly happy on the series, in part because on the few occasions where he disliked an aspect of Kupperberg's plots, he would simply revise the plot when he drew the issue. In retrospect, Larsen felt that this practice was overstepping his bounds, but said the editor never objected to it.[20]
This incarnation was a more conventional superhero series than the original volume.[14] It included new members who were hired to the team: the magnetically empowered strong-girlLodestone (Rhea Jones); Karma (Wayne Hawking), whose psychic power make anyone trying to attack him fall over themselves; and Scorch (Scott Fischer), whose body generates phenomenal quantities of heat focused through his hands, requiring him to wear protective gloves at all times. ADC Comics Bonus Book appeared in issue #9 (June 1988).[21] According to Kupperberg, sales on the series "started out okay, and descended to the point where I was removed from the book and replaced byGrant Morrison in the hopes he could salvage the title."[14]
After the first 18 issues (and various crossovers and annuals), Kupperberg was replaced by Grant Morrison and the comic was no longer submitted to theCCA for approval (relieving the stories and images depicted of several constraints), starting with issue #19. Kupperberg agreed to help Morrison by writing out characters Morrison did not want to use,[22] including Celsius, Scott Fischer, Karma, Lodestone, and Tempest.
Morrison used DC'sInvasion crossover to restart the book by "stripping the team down to its roots and returning, as quickly as possible, to the freewheeling weirdness that made the early stories so exhilarating."[22] Morrison substantially retooled Negative Man by forcibly merged the Negative Spirit (now a cosmic entity) with Larry Trainor and his doctor Eleanor Poole, creating an agendergestalt entity known as Rebis. Morrison introduced some new characters to the team, includingCrazy Jane, who had 64 personalities (each with its own meta human ability),[23] sentient neighborhoodDanny the Street, andDorothy Spinner, an ape-faced girl with powerful "imaginary friends". They incorporated bizarresecret societies, elements ofDada,surrealism, and thecut-up technique pioneered byWilliam S. Burroughs andBrion Gysin. They also borrowed the ideas ofJorge Luis Borges andHeinrich Hoffmann. The original creator, Arnold Drake, said Morrison's was the only subsequent run to reflect the intent of the original series.[24]
Over the course of the series, Morrison dedicated some issues to parody and homage.Willoughby Kipling led the Doom Patrol on a parody of the Brujería story arc ofSwamp Thing: A Murder of Crows in issues #31–32. Issue #42 featured the origin ofFlex Mentallo, who was supposed to be the character in theCharles Atlas ad. A belated lawsuit from the Charles Atlas Company showed that DC was protected underFair Use doctrine in addition to an expiredstatute of limitations.[25] Issue #53 featured a dream sequence that mimicked theStan Lee/Jack KirbyFantastic Four, borrowing plot points from "The Galactus Trilogy" (FF #48–50) andFF #51, "This Man... This Monster!". A 1992 special calledDoom Force was released as a one-shot and was meant to mimic and parody theX-Force book byRob Liefeld. Issue #45 parodied Marvel'sPunisher and Alan Moore in a satire called the Beard Hunter, a perpetually clean-shaven serial killer who murders bearded men and targets the Chief.
Morrison's villains were extremely unusual and strange, even by Doom Patrol's eccentric standards. For example:
In issue #57, it was revealed that the Chief had secretly caused the "accidents" which turned Cliff, Larry Trainor, and Rita Farr into super beings. Chief stated he caused them to gain their powers because of his hatred for them. He felt they were spoiled and narcissistic as well as shallow individuals, and that by turning them into "freaks", he could improve them as human beings. He further revealed that he lied about not being married to Celsius (the leader of the second Doom Patrol, who Caulder claimed was insane/lying about being married to him) out of anger. He was upset over how the experiments performed on her (like with Elasti-Girl) only gave her super-powers and did not turn her into a freak. When Tempest and Robotman found out his role in "creating" Robotman, Elasti-Girl, and Negative Man, Tempest was killed and Robotman paralyzed. Having been exposed as a villain, Caulder planned to unleashnanobots into the world, hoping to create acatastrophe that would improve humanity, regardless of the carnage it would cause. But Caulder's plan was hijacked by the Candlemaker, a violent cosmic horror who is freed by Dorothy in exchange for his resurrection of Tempest (whom Candlemaker re-killed). Candlemaker then decapitated Caulder and sought to use the nanobots to enslave humanity. Dorothy, Crazy Jane, and Robotman (freed by the former two) defeated Candlemaker with help from the new reborn version of Rebis. Rebis briefly left the team to reproduce as part of a cosmic ritual. However, during the battle, Jane was sent flying into a portal and landed in a world without heroes. Forcibly institutionalized for her mental issues in this new world, the final issue of Morrison's run had Robotman locate Jane as she was about to kill herself and take her to live with Cliff within the confines of Danny the Street. The cycle aptly ends with the words "There is another world... There is a better world... Well there must be", from the song "Asleep" byThe Smiths.
A four-issue Flex Mentallo mini-series illustrated byFrank Quitely spun out from this run.
Morrison left the book with issue #63, andRachel Pollack took over writing the book the next issue. Pollack's first issue was also the first under the newVertigo imprint of DC Comics (although the trade paperback editions of Morrison's work do 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 thegeneration gap,humanity,identity,transgender issues,bisexuality, and borrowed elements fromJudaism andKabbalah in the last few issues. The angelAkatriel is used as a major character in the last seven issues.
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 a 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 backward letters for heads had been seen altering people. These people were apparently older version of nanomachines, referred to as "nannos". At the Doom Patrol headquarters, 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, akaCoagula, one of the first transgender superheroes. A one-time ally of the team called the Identity Addict, who could become different superheroes by shedding her skin like a lizard, integrated herself back into the team while using the False Memory identity to change the team's memories until 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 theSephirot or Tree of Life.
A new artist,Ted McKeever, took over the artwork for most of the final 13 issues. Pollack continued writing the title until its cancellation with issue #87, in February 1995.
In December 2001, writerJohn Arcudi and artistTan Eng Huat launched a newDoom Patrol series. This relaunch was not under the Vertigo imprint and returned the title to the mainstream DC universe. The series lasted for 22 issues before it was cancelled.
Arcudi's run largely ignored Morrison and Pollack's runs at first; Arcudi stated in interviews at the time, that the disconnect with the Vertigo run was due to DC editorial having an agreement in play banning writers from using characters and concepts from his run; most notably Rebis/Negative Man and Crazy Jane. However, due to negative fan response to the run; Arcudi was allowed to make reference to the Vertigo series to explain what had happened to the characters from the Pollack run.
The run featured two Doom Patrols: a corporate run Doom Patrol employed by Thayer Jost for Jost Enterprises featuring existing DC characters (Metamophoro, Elongated Man, the second Doctor Light and Beast Boy) and a second "underground" Doom Patrol, run by Robotman and featuring new characters: Fast Forward who could look 60 seconds into the future, Kid Slick who could become entirely frictionless,Fever who could set herself alight, and Freak who possessed mysterious powers from a parasitic entity in her soul. The later Doom Patrol were the main characters of the run, with the Jost owned group disbanding when it is revealed by Metamorpho that Robotman had reportedly died four years earlier which results in the 'imposter' Robotman in the team to vanish into nothingness.[26]
The Doom Patrol later rebuild the real Robotman once they recover his head and come to an agreement that Thayer Jost will fund the group so long as Jost has the distributing rights to the Doom Patrol which he uses to create a Doom Patrol TV series based on the Silver Age Team. Over the course of the run Fast Forward loses control of his powers when he tries to look beyond 60 seconds into the future and has to suppress them with medicine to function while Kid Slick and Fever start a relationship with one another despite the latter accidentally hospitalising the former with her powers. It is later revealed that part of Robotman's agreement with Jost involves Jost funding for Dorothy Spinner's healthcare as she has been in a coma for the last four years, Cliff deduces that the 'imposter' Robotman was an imaginary Cliff that Dorothy had subconsciously manifested.[27]
Visiting Dorothy, Cliff regained his lost memories about how Dorothy became comatose. Deciding to end the Doom Patrol, Coagula and Cliff took Dorothy to Kentucky to meet her previously unknown birth mother to offer Dorothy a chance at a more 'normal' life, but fearing that Coagula and Cliff were abandoning her, Dorothy had an explosive psychic outburst that reportedly killed Coagula and Cliff, and left her comatose. After finding out that Dorothy was permanently brain dead, Cliff gave the doctors permission to turn off her life support.[28] The death of Dorothy ended Robotman's contract with Jost resulting in Fast Forward, Fever, Kid Slick and Freak being evicted and striking out together with royalty money that Jost gave them from his Doom Patrol TV series, while Cliff set off into the world once again alone.
Arcudi's characters have made few subsequent appearances, mainly constituting cameos.
In August 2004, DC launched a newDoom Patrol series after the new team debuted inJLA.John Byrne wrote and illustrated this series, with inks byDoug Hazlewood. Touted as "Together again for the first time!", Byrne rebooted the series, eliminating all previous Doom Patrol continuity.[29]
The series debuted as part of a six-part storyline that ran inJLA #94–99 as "The Tenth Circle", though Byrne only drew this arc as it was written by Chris Claremont. This team introduced several new members such as Ava, Grunt, Nudge, and Vortex alongside the 1960s heroes.
This reboot was both controversial and short-lived.[30] Besides the removal of the popular Morrison run (and its characters) from canon and thebutterfly effect it had on the Teen Titans (which did its best to limit references to Beast Boy's past and avoided using the Brotherhood of Evil until the Byrne run was canceled and Geoff Johns could restore the previous lore), the series garnered controversy over a scene where Robotman and Elasti-Girl are sent back in time and inhabit their younger selves' bodies. During their time in the past, Robotman declares his love for Elasti-Girl. However, due to an age gap between the two heroes, Rita is trapped in her twelve-year-old self's body when the adult Cliff reveals his romantic feelings and kisses her. DC canceled Byrne's series with issue #18.
DC editorial used the events of the "Infinite Crisis" storyline to restore the Doom Patrol's continuity. In escaping from the paradise dimension they had inhabited since the end ofCrisis on Infinite Earths,Superboy-Prime andAlex Luthor created temporal ripples which spread throughout reality, causing overlaps on parallel timelines of certain events (Hypertime), such as restoringJason Todd to life.
In the reprinted edition ofInfinite Crisis, additional scenes added to the collection showed Fever, Kid Slick, Ava, Nudge, Grunt, and Vortex among a two-page spread of heroes.[31]
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.[32]
Steve Dayton is again using theMento helmet and he is mentally unstable; however, he remembers his time as the villainous Crime Lord. 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 thatKid 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 stand up to the Chief and force him to step down as the Doom Patrol's leader, with Mento taking over that role.
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's castle headquarters.
The Doom Patrol later appear inThe Four Horsemen series (2007), with Caulder back in charge. According toTitans (vol. 2) #1, Beast Boy has recently become the team leader.
InDC Universe: Decisions, Robotman has a supporting role while Mento appears in issue #4.
On February 7, 2009, it was announced at theNew York Comic Con thatKeith Giffen would be spearheading a revival of Doom Patrol, a title which he has long said he wanted to write.[33][34] He was joined by artist Matt Clark, who has also long expressed a desire to work on the team.[35] The new series focused on the core members Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, Robotman, and the Chief, while other members such as Mento, Bumblebee, and Vox were to be seen later. The title launched with a 10-page ongoingMetal Men co-feature written byJ. M. DeMatteis.[36][37]
In the first issue, Rita takes on the alias "Elasti-Woman", and according to the team shrink, she's "mothering" Bumblebee, who's now eight inches tall after being shrunk to the size of a bee inInfinite Crisis.
Nudge, Byrne's addition to the team, was killed in the line of duty and Grunt took off with her corpse.
The current team is working out of Oolong Island (from52), which has been turned into a resort town while still maintaining a large super-science background. TheChallengers of the Unknown's Rocky Davis is also working closely with the team for spiritual support.
Former member Crazy Jane appears in issue #7. Danny the Street, in a reduced aspect, appears in issue #8.
Ambush Bug joined the team at the end of issue #9.
The series was canceled, due to a decrease in sales, with issue #22 in May 2011.
In September 2011,The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, the Doom Patrol is briefly mentioned in issue #24 ofJustice League. The team is depicted to be identical in appearance toPaul Kupperberg's 1977 Doom Patrol, consisting of membersCelsius,Joshua Clay, andNegative Woman, with additional members Karma and Scott Fischer.[38]
During the "Forever Evil" storyline, Valentina Vostok, Karma, and Scott are killed during a confrontation withJohnny Quick and Atomica of theCrime Syndicate, while Celsius and Joshua Clay are presumably killed. Upon learning of his team's demise, the Chief sets about assembling a new Doom Patrol.[39]
Following the defeat of the Crime Syndicate, the newly created Doom Patrol is introduced in issue #30 ofJustice League. The team includes Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and M.I.A. Justice League member Element Woman, whom Caulder refuses to let leave the group and tricks into thinking she was abandoned by the Justice League.
The team attempt to captureJessica Cruz, the new Power Ring, to force her to join the team. During their attempt to capture her, Caulder demands the team refuse to save civilians in a collapsing building to allow him to lobotomize Cruz and force her to serve him. The Justice League save the people in the building and Lex Luthor manages to hold Caulder back so Batman can convince Cruz to go with the League instead. During their fight, Luthor reveals that Caulder (as he did in the Morrison run) was responsible for causing the "accidents" that gave the Doom Patrol their powers and that both Celsius and Joshua Clay used the chaos of the events ofForever Evil to fake their deaths and escape from Caulder. It is also revealed that Caulder poisoned an entire fishing village as part of an experiment, and cured the residents only after Luthor discovered the truth and threatened to expose him.
A new Doom Patrol series written byGerard Way and drawn by Nick Derington was created as part of theYoung Animal imprint. The first issue was published on September 14, 2016. The series has created a multitude of original characters as well as some taken from former team rosters.
Casey Brinke, a fictional character thatDanny the Street created to communicate with people through comic books, was contacted by Danny when he became threatened by a group of aliens known as Vectra. They wished to profit from his power to create life by turning his fictional people into cheap meat at a fast food restaurant. Danny reached out to Casey, hoping that she could find and join the Doom Patrol after explaining her origin story, both the fictional origin story he had created for her and how she had become a real person.
Casey agreed to help. She piloted Danny, currently taking the form of an ambulance, into his attackers' headquarters, discovering that the leader of the organization was none other than her fictional father Torminox, accidentally brought to life when Vectra had tortured Danny. Alongside Torminox was an evil version of Casey, known as Doodle Bug. She was also created when Danny was tortured and reflects his concern regarding how Casey would become in the real world. Despite the family drama, Casey and the Doom Patrol defeated Vectra and freed Danny from Vectra's clutches.[40]
Afterward, the team sets out to findCrazy Jane, who was running a cult under the influence of her current dominant ego Dr. Harrison. Harrison wished to purge the 63 other personalities within Jane's mind by distributing them among the mind-controlled cult members using a gene bomb. After the process, she would kill them all. Jane and the team managed to stop this plan and save the cult members while also killing the Dr. Harrison personality within Jane.[40]
The team is contacted by Niles Caulder in a later issue and embark on a mission with him leading. The mission goes haywire and it is revealed that Caulder is gambling again, leading the team to evict him as a leader and as a member of the team. This marks the team embracing being a new iteration of the Doom Patrol.[41]
Other characters introduced in Way's run included Terry None, Casey's roommate, eventually revealed to be Mr. Nobody's daughter; Lotion, Casey's cat, who Terry mutated into an anthropomorphic form; and the Reynolds family (paramedic Sam, his wife Valerie, and their magic-wielding son Lucius).[40][41] This series ran 12 issues.
First published in July 2019,Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds retained the oversight ofGerard Way'sYoung Animal imprint, and directly continued from the ending of Volume 6. The series saw the return ofElasti-Girl andMento to the team and a brief appearance ofBeast Boy. The plot primarily concerned Cliff Steele acquiring a new robot body that was ever upgrading to the point that he became an entire planet in an attempt to protect the universe from hurt, motivated by his mother disowning him and the loss ofDorothy Spinner.Cliff was eventually persuaded to stop by Crazy Jane, who helped to deconstruct him into an infantile form.The series was cancelled in October 2019[42] and came to a conclusion with its seventh issue in July 2020.[43]
Following the cancellation of their series, Robotman, Elasti-Girl, and Negative Man were reintroduced to the main DC continuity, alongside Niles Caulder, in issue #1 ofBatman/Superman: World's Finest. The team helped the titular superheroes defeatMetallo and later performed surgery on Superman to cure him of redkryptonite poisoning.[44]
The seven-issueUnstoppable Doom Patrol series by writer Dennis Culver, artist Chris Burnham, and colorist Brian Reber launched March 28, 2023. It portrayed the Doom Patrol with a new mission: saving, protecting and trainingmetahumans.[45] The series had a primary team consisting of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, and led by a new personality of Crazy Jane calling herself "The Chief". New team members included Degenerate (who gained strength from negative emotions) andBeast Girl (who could encourage or discourage "primal instincts" in others).[45] Supporting cast included Niles Caulder (no longer leading the team, but advising), Mento, Willoughby Kipling, Lotion, Lucius Reynolds, Flex Mentallo, and new members including Psylosimon (who had fungus-based superpowers) and Starbro (a metahuman who merged with a spore fromStarro the Conqueror).[46][47] This team was pursued by US government forces led byPeacemaker and fought a new version of the Brotherhood of Evil, led by General Immortus, who sought to gain the power of the Candlemaker.[48]
The Doom Patrol faces a diverse array of foes. Each one is listed in alphabetical order with issue and date of their first appearance:
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| General Immortus | My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963) | Immortal "general" of a cultish criminal syndicate with centuries of knowledge about military tactics. |
| The Brain | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #86 (March 1964) | Disembodied brain of scientific genius, the Brain led the Brotherhood of Evil. |
| Madame Rouge | Instructor at a French girls’ school who was secretly the deadly Madame Rouge, with an elastic body and the ability to remold her face to imitate anyone. | |
| Monsieur Mallah | Agorilla who was chosen by the Brain to be subjected to training and electric shocks that turned him into a genius. | |
| Mr. Nobody | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #86 (March 1964; as Mr. Morden) Doom Patrol vol. 2 #26 (September 1989; as Mr. Nobody) | Mr. Morden, a “one-man crime wave”, stole the giant robot Rog in his quest to join the Brotherhood of Evil; driven insane and turned into an abstract shadow form by an ex-Nazi scientist, he gained the power to drain sanity from his victims and rechristened himself Mr. Nobody, leader of theBrotherhood of Dada. |
| Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #89 (August 1969) | Dr. Sven Larsen, Swedish scientist and former student of the Chief, fell into a vat simulating the organic soup of the primordial Earth and gained power to change his body into any form of animal, vegetable, or mineral. |
| Garguax | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #91 (November 1964) | A mammoth-sized and obese forerunner of an alien invasion force who used the advanced technology of his world, including an android army dubbed the Plastic Men. |
| Mister 104 | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #98 (September 1965) | John Dubrovny was a geniusbiochemist who suffered a mental collapse and developed the power to transform himself into any element on the atomic table. He started out as Mister 103. Later appearances had John operating as Mister 104 |
| General Zahl | Doom Patrol vol. 1 #121 (October 1968) | Originally called Captain Zahl, the formerNaziU-boat captain was a frequent sparring partner with the Doom Patrol. His most notable claim is his role as the mastermind in the believed demise of the group alongside Madame Rouge. |
| Red Jack | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #23 "The Butterfly Collector" (June 1989) | Arguably the most powerful villain the team has ever encountered, Red Jack was an extra-dimensional being, with a filigree crown and a masquerade-style mask, dressed in mid 17th-century nobleman costume, who claimed to be bothJack the Ripper and the creator of the universe. His powers derived from the collective suffering of millions of butterflies, which he kept pinned to the wall of his home. He kidnapped Rhea Jones (AKA Lodestone) from the hospital where she was being tended to during a coma, in order to make her his bride. Upon discovering Rhea missing from her hospital bed, Crazy Jane reveals the identity of her kidnapper through a divining ritual involving cut up pieces from books she stole from a store down the street (a method purportedly used by Dadaists andWilliam S. Burroughs to create random poetry). Red Jack easily defeats the Doom Patrol, and seems unstoppable until Crazy Jane releases his butterfly collection, rendering him powerless, and allowing Rhea to stab him in the back with his own knife. |
| Shrapnel | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #7 (April 1988) | Mark Scheffer was a serial bomber and government anarchist before a lab accident turned his skin into an organic metal compound giving him superhuman strength, speed, and the ability to manipulate metal projectiles from his body into explosive bursts. He was discovered by the Doom Patrol in Kansas while on a murder spree and forced into combat by the team. |
| Villain | First appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Janus | My Greatest Adventure #81 (March 1964) | Josef Kreutz, a master criminal who was formerly a propagandist for Hitler, escaped the fall of Nazi Germany and invented a radio-like device that made people see things that were not there. |
| The Green-Headed League | My Greatest Adventure #82 (September 1963) | Three green-skinned aliens disguised themselves as human and infiltrated the corridors of power over seven years of planning as Senator Durham, political powerhouse; Dr. Savatini, chairman of the International Science Foundation; and Monsieur Duvoir, famed financier. |
| Cooky and Nolan | My Greatest Adventure #83 (November 1963) | Basic crooks exploiting power outages caused when Negative Man's energy form was unleashed out of control. |
| The Nuclear Beasts | My Greatest Adventure #85 (February 1964) | Two nuclear-powered creatures from the Earth’s core. |
| Rog | Doom Patrol #86 (March 1964) | A giant robot created by Chief that fell under the control of Mr. Nobody so that he can become a member of the Brotherhood of Evil. |
| Giacamo | Doom Patrol #87 (May 1967) | A little person who served the Brotherhood of Evil. |
| Vince Harding | Doom Patrol #87 (May 1964) | Escaped killer who hid on a Pacific island loaded with deadly booby-traps. |
| The Baron | Doom Patrol #88 (June 1964) | Monocle and cape-wearing gentlemanly leader of thieves using advanced technology to execute stylish and daring plans, all in order to seize wealth to be used by General Immortus. |
| S/Sgt. Allen Norton | Doom Patrol #89 (August 1964) | Amnesiac war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder that turned him violent when he heard sounds reminiscent of machine gun fire. |
| Doctor Tyme | Doom Patrol #92 (December 1964) | Invented the “4-X beam” that slows or accelerates time in localized areas, and which he radiated from the top of his absurd alarm-clock shaped helmet. Hid in “Merlin’s Castle,” which he decorated with a large number of clocks. |
| Osra | Doom Patrol #94 (March 1965) | Dr. John Radick, author of best-seller “Illusion and Reality,” was secretly the son of Dr. Janus and used Janus’s mental illusion radio to create the belief that Osra, the ghost of an ancient sultan, was destroying buildings. |
| The Claw | A hawk-masked thief who controlled superfalcons Meena and Tonka, which had steel razor tipped claws and could fly at speeds topping 200 miles per hour. | |
| Bug Man | Doom Patrol #99 (November 1965) | Used army of robots and a flying robot vehicle that could transform into simulacra of bugs. |
| King of Dinosaurs | Doom Patrol #100 (December 1965) | Dr. Weir went mad and hypnotized a young green-skinned boy named Craig (secretly Beast Boy) in order to steal his key to a bank deposit box which held Craig's father's secrets of anti-evolution, which he used to engineer dinosaurs he controlled in a series of mad thefts. |
| Nicholas Galtry | Garfield Logan's legal guardian, he stole from the boy’s trust and hired Arsenal to kill him to prevent the embezzlement from being discovered. | |
| League of Challenger Haters | Challengers of the Unknown #42 | A villain group that usually antagonizes theChallengers of the Unknown. It consists ofMulti-Man, Kra, Multi-Woman, and Volcano Man. The Doom Patrol once fought the League of Challenge Haters inDoom Patrol #102 when they tried to find Atlantis causing the Doom Patrol and the Challengers of the Unknown to team up to stop them. |
| King Zatopa | Doom Patrol #102 (March 1966) | Leader of an Atlantean nation that was preserved in suspended animation and revived by Multi-Man and the Challenger-Haters, who held the nation’s queen hostage to force Zatopa and his army to work on their behalf. |
| The Meteor Man | Doom Patrol #103 (May 1966) | Professor Randolph Ormsby, a germ-phobic astronomer, was transformed by cosmic rays into a rampaging living meteor growing ever more powerful as he absorbed iron into his molten core. |
| Ultimax | Doom Patrol #107 (November 1966) | A rampaging giant robot intending to create a world of living computers, who was armed with techniques to neutralize all of the Doom Patrol, including a gas that super-activated Elasti-Girl’s shrinking powers and sent her into a subatomic universe. Ultimately revealed to be a pawn of the Brotherhood of Evil where it was controlled by Brain. |
| Doctor Death | A disfigured, skull-faced man named Dr. Drew invented an energy shroud which he intended to use to strangle the planet and destroy all life, until Negative Man thwarted his scheme. He was obsessed with making Negative Man realize he was so freakish that he could work only with a fellow freak like himself. | |
| Abu Hallam | Abu Hallam, masked like awitch doctor, infiltrated and took over Swiss bank C.G.Y., thwarting Steve Dayton’s attempt to uncover Nicholas Gantry’s financial crimes, until confronted by Steve Dayton and he revealed himself to be Monsieur Mallah in disguise. | |
| The Zarakas | One of two warring nations in a subatomic world, led by Toxino, the one-eyed king, who was nearly deposed by Count Waja. | |
| Mandred the Executioner | Doom Patrol #109 (February 1967) | A single, powerful entity created by the sacrifice of Garguax’s Plastic Men androids, which threw themselves into a vat to pool themselves into one creature. |
| Zarox-13 | Doom Patrol #111 (May 1967) | Thirteenth leader of Garguax’s alien race, who was revered by the epithets “Master of the Dark Forces, Ruler of the Ruthless, Protector of the Unholy, and Emperor of the Cosmos.” It took the combined forces of the Doom Patrol and the Brotherhood of Evil to stop Zarox-13. |
| Arsenal | Doom Patrol #113 (August 1967) | A large mecha-suit, powered with an arsenal of weapons intended to neutralize the Doom Patrol's powers, operated by a man with dwarfism. His suit would later be used by Nicholas Galtry. |
| Kor, the Conqueror | Doom Patrol #114 (September 1967) | Prof. Anton Koravyk, specialist in sonic technology, attempted to send himself back in time to escape the governments intent on channeling his talents into military uses, but accidentally punched through time and de-evolved himself into aNeanderthal warrior. |
| The Mutant Trio | Doom Patrol #115 (November 1967) | Three telepathically linked flying mutants with three-fingered hands and destructive power. Ur, aka the Mutant Master, whose head is a giant eye, fires a heat beam; his brother Ar, whose face is in the center of his chest, fires a de-atomizer ray; and Ir, a faceless mutant with a giant eye on the palm of each hand, fires lasers. The three claim to be aliens who were deformed by atomic radiation, becoming "the first children of the atomic age". |
| The Black Vulture | Doom Patrol #117 (February 1968) | A man named Decker attempted to swindle a Native American tribe out of its land, calling himself "Son of Geronimo" until the Chief discovered his plot. Decker then sought revenge as the Black Vulture, a bird-costumed man flying by jet-powered gauntlets, wielding steel-claw talons, and controlling a menageries of superpowered birds. |
| Videx | Doom Patrol #118 (March–April 1968) | Jalmar Lichtmeister believed he had uncovered the secret to invisibility and tested his theories on himself, successfully turning his outer skin invisible but revealing his organs and gaining power over light. |
| The Great Guru | Doom Patrol #119 (May–June 1968) | Yaramishi Rama Yogi used radical "therapy" to attempt to emotionally cripple the Doom Patrol in order to distract them while he "liberated" Madame Rouge from her brief romance with the Chief. |
| The Wrecker | Doom Patrol #120 (August 1968) | Harvey Keller, twin brother of artist Morton Keller, was distraught when Morton was killed by a medical error when a hospital data processor mislabeled his blood type. Keller created New World Island, a Sargasso sea in space of satellites and space craft, from which he plotted to use technology destructively in order to wean mankind from his dependence on technology. |
| Kalki | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #1 (October 1987) | An aging mad scientist and the father ofCelsius who sought to become immortal and once employed a younger Niles Caulder in his experiments. |
| Reactron | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #10 (July 1988) | A radioactive Superman villain who the Doom Patrol once fought. |
| Metallo | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #10 (July 1988) | A cyborg enemy of Superman who once fought the Doom Patrol. |
| Pythia | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #13 (October 1988) | ALord of Chaos. |
| Scissormen | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #19 (February 1989) | The Scissormen are a race of beings with scissors for hands that come from the metafictional city of Orqwith. |
| Brotherhood of Dada | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #26 (September 1989) | An absurdist group that was created by Mr. Nobody when he was denied membership in the Brotherhood of Evil. |
| Cult of the Unwritten Book | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #31 (April 1990) | A religious order that is dedicated to the total annihilation of the entire universe by summoning the Decreator. |
| Decreator | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #32 (May 1990) | A cosmic entity that is known to eradicate all types of existence. |
| Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #35 (August 1990) | An organization that is dedicated to the extermination of eccentricity and difference after their soul husks have been harvested by the Agency and the Telephone Avatar during World War II. They once capturedFlex Mentallo and targetedDanny the Street. |
| Darren Jones | A man who is completely obsessed with eliminating the strangeness and peculiarity in the world and the self-described poster for normalcy. | |
| Beard Hunter | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #45 (June 1992) | Ernest Franklin was a disturbed and closeted gay assassin of bearded men who was hired the Bearded Gentlemen's Club of Metropolis to kill the Chief because he wouldn't sell his beard to them. He cannot grow a beard due to a male hormone deficiency according to his mother when she was visited by the police. |
| Codpiece | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #70 (September 1993) | A villain with a massive inferiority complex who wears a suit that has a codpiece-shaped weapon system. |
| Barrage II | Doom Patrol vol. 4 #1 (August 2004) | A villain with energy-projecting abilities. |
| Candlemaker | Doom Patrol vol. 2 #51 (January 1992) | An extradimensional egregore who was unleashed byDorothy Spinner during the earlier days of the Doom Patrol. |
| Torminox | Doom Patrol vol. 6 #5 (May 2017) | Richard Brinke is a scientist and the father of Casey Brinke who was turned into the evil Torminox by the disease of the same name. He was the villain in the "Space Case" comics where Casey operated as the titular character. Both of them were accidentally brought to life by Danny the Street. |
An alternate universe iteration of the Doom Patrol from Earth-9 appear in a self-titledTangent Comics one-shot, consisting ofDoomsday,Star Sapphire,Firehawk, andRampage. This version of the group come from the year 2030.
An alternate universe iteration of the Doom Patrol appear inJust Imagine..., consisting ofBrock Smith / Blockbuster,Lucinda Radama / Parasite, andDeke Durgan / Deathstroke. This version of the group aredeath row inmates who serve under Reverend Dominic Darrk and his sonAdam.[49]
Drake and Premiani's run is available as:
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 1 | My Greatest Adventure Vol. 1 #80–85;Doom Patrol Vol. 1 86–89 | 2002 | ISBN 1-56389-795-4 |
| The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 2 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #90–97 | 2004 | ISBN 1-4012-0150-4 |
| The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 3 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #98–105;Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 1 #48 | 2006 | ISBN 1-4012-0766-9 |
| The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 4 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #106–113 | 2007 | ISBN 1-4012-1646-3 |
| The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 5 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #114–121 | 2008 | ISBN 978-1-4012-1720-4 |
| Showcase Presents: The Doom Patrol Volume 1 | My Greatest Adventure Vol. 1 #80–85,Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #86–101 | 2009 | ISBN 1-4012-2182-3 |
| Showcase Presents: The Doom Patrol Volume 2 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #102–121 | 2010 | ISBN 1-4012-2770-8 |
| Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Omnibus | My Greatest Adventure Vol. 1 #80–85;Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #86–121;The Brave and the Bold Vol. 1 #65;Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 1 #48 | 2017 | ISBN 978-1-4012-7355-2 |
| Doom Patrol The Silver Age Vol. 1 | My Greatest Adventure Vol. 1 #80–85;Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #86–95 | 2018 | ISBN 978-1-4012-8111-3 |
| Doom Patrol The Silver Age Vol. 2 | Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #96–107;Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 1 #48;The Brave and the Bold Vol. 1 #65 | 2020 | ISBN 978-1-77950-098-4 |
| DC Finest: Doom Patrol: The World's Strangest Heroes | My Greatest Adventure Vol. 1 #80–85;Doom Patrol Vol. 1 #86–102;The Brave and the Bold Vol. 1 #65;Challengers of the Unknown Vol. 1 #48;Teen Titans (vol. 1) #6 | 2025 | ISBN 978-1-7995-0035-3 |
Issues #122–124 ofDoom Patrol are reprinted material.
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 9 | Superman Vol. 2 #19–22;Adventures of Superman Vol. 1 #441–444 andSuperman Annual #2;Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #10 | 2016 | ISBN 978-1-4012-6637-0 |
| DC Through the 80s: The Experiments | Secret Origins #48,The Saga of the Swamp Thing #40,The Sandman #8,Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #25,The Warlord #48 and 55,Legion of Super-Heroes #298,Nathaniel Dusk #1,The Best of DC: Blue Ribbon Digest #58,Watchmen #1,Camelot 3000 #1,The Dark Knight Returns #2,Angel Love #1,History of the DC Universe #1-2 | 2021 | ISBN 978-1-77950-709-9 |
| Doom Patrol: The Bronze Age Omnibus | Showcase Vol. 1 #94-96,DC Comics Presents #52,Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #7-9,Secret Origins Annual #1,Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #1-18,Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad Special #1,Superman Vol. 2 #20,Doom Patrol Annual #1 and stories fromThe Superman Family #191-193 | 2019 | ISBN 978-1-4012-9883-8 |
| Crawling from the Wreckage | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #19–25 | 2000 | ISBN 1-56389-034-8 |
| The Painting That Ate Paris | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #26–34 | 2004 | ISBN 1-4012-0342-6 |
| Down Paradise Way | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #35–41 | 2005 | ISBN 1-4012-0726-X |
| Musclebound | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #42–50 | 2006 | ISBN 1-4012-0999-8 |
| Magic Bus | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #51–57 | 2007 | ISBN 1-4012-1202-6 |
| Planet Love | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #58–63 andDoom Force #1 | 2008 | ISBN 1-4012-1624-2 |
| Doom Patrol Book One | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #19–34 | 2016 | ISBN 1-4012-6312-7 |
| Doom Patrol Book Two | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #35–50 | 2016 | ISBN 1-4012-6379-8 |
| Doom Patrol Book Three | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #51–63,Doom Force #1 | 2017 | ISBN 1-4012-6597-9 |
| Doom Patrol Omnibus | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #19–63,Doom Force #1 | 2014 | ISBN 978-1-4012-4562-7 |
| Doom Patrol by Rachel Pollack Omnibus | Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #64-87,Doom Patrol Annual #2,Totems #1, andVertigo Jam #1. | 2022 | ISBN 978-1-77951-534-6 |
| Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery | Flex Mentallo #1–4 | HC: 2012 PB: 2014 | HC:ISBN 978-1-4012-3221-4 PB:ISBN 978-1-4012-4702-7 |
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doom Patrol by John Byrne: The Complete Series | Doom Patrol Vol. 4 #1-18,JLA #94-99, material fromSecret Origins Annual #1, andSuperman Vol. 2 #20 | 2020 | ISBN 978-1-77950-084-7 |
The Keith Giffen writtenDoom Patrol has been collected in the following trades:
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| We Who Are About to Die | Doom Patrol vol. 5 #1–6 | 2010 | ISBN 978-1-4012-2751-7 |
| Brotherhood | Doom Patrol vol. 5 #7–13 | 2011 | ISBN 978-1-4012-2998-6 |
| Doom Patrol by Keith Giffen and Matthew Clark Omnibus | Doom Patrol vol. 5 #1–22,Teen Titans vol. 3 #32, #34-37,The Brave and the Bold vol. 3 #8,Secret Six vol. 3 #3-4, #30,52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen #1-6, andDC Comics Presents #52. | 2025 | ISBN 978-1-7995-0333-0 |
A third collection, titledFire Away containing issues #14–22, was originally scheduled but never released.
The sixth volume ofDoom Patrol, written byGerard Way, was published under DC'sYoung Animal Imprint, headed by Way.
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doom Patrol: Brick by Brick | Doom Patrol Vol. 6 #1–6 | 2017 | ISBN 978-1-4012-6979-1 |
| Doom Patrol: Nada | Doom Patrol Vol. 6 #7–12 | 2018 | ISBN 978-1-4012-7500-6 |
| Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds | Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1-7 | 2020 | ISBN 978-1-77950-078-6 |
| Doom Patrol by Gerard Way and Nick Derington: The Deluxe Edition | Doom Patrol Vol. 6 #1-12 (2016-2018),Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1-7 | 2023 | ISBN 978-1-77952-138-5 |
| Title | Material collected | Year | ISBN |
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| Unstoppable Doom Patrol | Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1-7, and material fromLazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 | 2024 | ISBN 978-1-77952-294-8 |
Showcase #94 (August–September 1977) Writer Paul Kupperberg and artist Joe Staton revived DC's "try-out" series from its seven-year slumber by resurrecting the super-hero team, Doom Patrol.
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