Doom Patrol

From DC Database

Doom Patrol

Gallery

Official Name

Doom Patrol

Status

Status

Active

Team Identity

Secret

Universe

New Earth

Base Of Operations

Prague; Formerly Midway City; Formerly Kansas City; Formerly Happy Harbor, Rhode Island; Formerly Key Mordaz, Florida

Organization

Team Leader(s)

Chief

Current Members

Beast Boy (Garfield Logan); Bumblebee; Elasti-Girl; Mento; Negative Man (Larry Trainor); Robotman (Cliff Steele); Vox (Mal Duncan)

Former Members

Bandage People; Celsius; Coagula; Crazy Jane; Danny the World; Faith; Fever; Scott Fischer; Freak; Grunt; Karma; Kid Slick; Lodestone; Will Magnus; Negative Man (Ted Bruder); Negative Woman; Nudge; Rebis; Robotman (Imaginary); Dorothy Spinner; Tempest (Joshua Clay); Vortex

Allies

Teen Titans; Justice League of America; Challengers of the Unknown

Enemies

Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man; Brotherhood of Evil; Garguax; General Immortus

Origin

Origin

An aging wheelchair bound scientist known only as the Chief gathers together three super-powered outcasts: Robotman, Elasti-Girl and Negative Man to use their powers for the greater good as The Doom Patrol.

Place of Formation

Midway City

First appearance

My Greatest Adventure 80 (1963)

History

Pre-Crisis

Main article: Pre-Crisis

Origin

An aging wheelchair bound scientist known only as the Chief gathers together three super-powered outcasts: Robotman, Elasti-Girl and Negative Man. As the heroes greet one another, they learn of the personal circumstances that brought them all together.

Robotman was once Cliff Steele, an international sportsman and daredevil whose body was burned to a cinder after a deadly racecar crash. The Chief’s scientific genius transferred Steele’s brain into a new robot body.

Larry Trainor was once a civilian test pilot – until the fateful day when he flew an experimental suborbital aircraft into a stratospheric belt of radiation. Now he exists as a living mummy, forced to wear special bandages to contain the radiation that has disfigured his body. As a side effect of the incident, Larry can now summon a dark energy being from his body, which he calls the Negative Man.

Rita Farr was a Hollywood starlet, and Olympic level swimmer. During filming of one of her movies, Rita was exposed to strange vapors that granted he the ability to alter her size at will. Her career in ruins, due to her mutation, she now fights alongside the Doom Patrol as Elasti-Girl.

Freaks and Outcasts

Niles Caulder motivated the original Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, to use their powers for the greater good.

Early Career

Death at Happy Harbor

Post-Crisis

Main article: Post-Crisis

Modern Incarnation

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

• No special notes.
  

Trivia

• No trivia.
  

See Also

• Appearances of Doom Patrol (Chronological)
• Appearances of Doom Patrol (Unordered)
• Team Gallery: Doom Patrol
• Fan-Art Gallery: Doom Patrol

Links and References

Recommended Readings

• My Greatest Adventure comic series
• Doom Patrol (Volume 1) comic series

Related Articles

• Immortality Elixir
• Jungle Flame
• Rocket-Foil
• Sea Nymph
• Shnootzy
• Waldo
• X-19

External Links

• Unca Cheeks' Fabulous Freaks article on the Doom Patrol (Part One)
• Gloom and Doom article on the Doom Patrol at Comics101
  

Recommended Readings

• My Greatest Adventure comic series
• Doom Patrol (Volume 1) comic series

Related Articles

• Immortality Elixir
• Jungle Flame
• Rocket-Foil
• Sea Nymph
• Shnootzy
• Waldo
• X-19

External Links

• Unca Cheeks' Fabulous Freaks article on the Doom Patrol (Part One)
• Gloom and Doom article on the Doom Patrol at Comics101