Made up of misfit super-heroes with unusual powers and abilities, the Doom Patrol embarked on and endured some of the most bizarre adventures ever imaginable. Assembled in this hardcover volume are the earliest escapades of Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Girl, and the Chief. Reprinted as they originally appeared in the 1960s, this archive edition includes the Doom Patrol's first appearance and origin, as well as their first battles with their greatest adversary, General Immortus, the prehistoric monster menace Dr. Janus, the subterranean Atomic Furies, and the mutant Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Surprisingly Good,
By miles@riverside (Indio, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) (Hardcover)
This volume is among the best of the DC Archives volumes I've read so far. Apparently DOOM PATROL was a cult favorite back in the 60's, but its reputation has been obscure enough to discourage any sort of systematic reprinting up until this book. In a pointless lifetime of reading comics, this is the first time I've run across the original series.DC benefited from a number of excellent pencil artists back in the 1960's, such as Curt Swan, Neal Adams, and Murphy Anderson. Bruno Premiani is a name that never seems to appear in that list, but it really should. The artwork here is really impressive, comparable in places to Alex Raymond or Lou Fine. The Arnold Drake stories are also consistently entertaining, although you have to get used to a style of dialogue and characterization that smacks strongly of 50/60's-era horror and science fiction films. But the writing is at least as good as anything being done in that period at Marvel or DC. In some ways the storytelling reminds me of some non-superhero DC titles from the time, like STRANGE ADVENTURES or MYSTERY IN SPACE. Highly recommended to anyone who likes Silver Age comics.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Trapped in a World They Never...oh, that was the OTHER guys,
By Jeffrey A. Veyera "Jeff Veyera" (Matthews, NC United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) (Hardcover)
A team of young misfits with strange powers led by an enigmatic and brilliant man in a wheelchair...No, not the X-Men...the Doom Patrol! This DC Archives brings together the first adventures of the legendary ne'er-do-well team and found DC in a very Marvel-ous mood three months BEFORE the X-Men debuted. Stan Lee himself could do little better than these angst-ridden antiheroes: a racecar driver spared a gruesome death only by having his brain placed in a robot body; a movie actress who could grow to gargantuan heights or shrink to Lilliputian dimensions; a test pilot bonded with a strange alien radiation. Together, they would tackle the oddest menaces to be found: a disembodied brain with a gorilla sidekick, an octogenarian madman with world-conquering pretensions, a shape-shifter able to take on any form. Unlike your other super-powered teams of the time, the Doom Patrol did not adjust well to their new situation, and the tension on the team was palpable from the first. Arnold Drake's Doom Patrol was in many ways a precursor to Chris Claremont's X-Men. His stories were character-driven and emphasized the alienation each of the heroes felt from their comrades as a result of their abilities. The team struggled on behalf of a world which would never accept them. And behind it all lurked the unfathomable ambitions of their stricken leader, Dr. Niles Caulder, "The Chief." This collection includes "My Greatest Adventure/Doom Patrol" 80-89 from 1963-1964. It is a must-have for any Silver Age comics fan.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Doom Patrol. Fascinating, memorable, and poignant.,
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This review is from: The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1 (DC Archive Editions) (Hardcover)
I wanted to share a little story about Arnold Drake. I only knew his name as the writer who created DEADMAN and DOOM PATROL, but I didn't know much about him until two years ago when I was at a convention in Westchester, NY. Roy Thomas, Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont, and a few other writer/artists of the X-Men were on a panel discussing the differences between the filmed version of X-Men, and the comics version. It was an interesting discussion, but it became more interesting when this older gentleman with a white beard, glasses, and an African beret entered the room, and Roy Thomas began a conversation with the man from across the room. "Arnold would you like to join us?" The man was sort of uncomfortable. He said his wife was waiting for him, but "What the hell, I can spare a few minutes," and he joined the panel, and discussed the few times he wrote the X-men, and also entertained the audience with hilarious anecdotes about: "Stan "the man" Lee, who was quite enamored with the word 'Brotherhood." He basically said that the X-men was a direct knock off of his Doom Patrol, but he was respectful, if a bit flippant. Then he left the room as dramatically as he came in, and we gave him a round of applause. Conventions are fun for comics fans and creators, but the rare moments like that make the experiences unforgettable.Now, the DOOM PATROL. Highly imaginative, heroes that are sort of confused about their place in the world, but go ahead and save humanity whenever they can. ROBOTMAN has a human brain, but that's all that is left of Cliff Steele after a tragic car accident. Rita Farr grows to enormous heights, and Larry Trainor has a shadow that fights, flys and glows! Their leader is Niles Caulder, a crippled genius in a wheelchair. He grounds this ragtag band of heroes to their missions. This is great stuff, and it looks like a second volume is due out (hooray!). The first volume collects issues from My Greatest Adventure (which quickly changed the title to just DOOM PATROL) #80-89. There will probably be two more volumes. Then if the Grant Morrison run will be reprinted, we Doom Patrol fanatics will be in Nirvana.
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