Arnold Drake

The original Doom Patrol comic book stories return in this tome-sized collection, featuring the earliest appearances of the unconventional super-team! DC Finest presents comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras! Fans of Doom Patrol won’t want to miss the installment of DC Finest, as the earliest days of the endearingly bizarre team—reinvented by Grant Morrison in the late 1980s and adapted in the acclaimed Max original series Doom Patrol—are collected, starting with their debut in 1963’s My Greatest Adventure #80 by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani. Find out how the Chief, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and Robotman first became the World’s Strangest Heroes in this DC Finest volume of some of the Silver Age’s most offbeat superhero adventures! This volume collects The Brave and the Bold #65; Doom Patrol #86-102; Challengers of the Unknown #48; My Greatest Adventure #80-85; Teen Titans #6.

Gathering all of the original, offbeat adventures from the 1960s in one massive omnibus collection! One of the strangest superhero teams of all time, The Doom Patrol starred in a very successful Vertigo series in the 1980s, written by Grant Morrison. This fast-paced volume introduces The Doom Patrol, led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society--Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman--take the qualities that make them freaks and become heroes. Together, the trio would take on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and the Brotherhood of Evil!