DC FINEST DOOM PATROL The World's Strangest Heroes

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 the Silver Age’s most offbeat superhero adventures! Fun stories and quite well drawn. Also features artwork by Bob Brown, who did several issues,Giordano inks on Brave and the Bold, and Nick Cardy, Bill Molno and George Roussos on the 1966 Teen Titans issue. It has been said that the Doom Patrol was DC's answer to the X-Men, but the team began their run very close to the debut of X-Men. More likely it was an answer to the Fantastic Four, which had begun at the end of 1961; by 1963, DC may have realized that Marvel's offbeat approach to hero teams was a success and it was time for them to try their own version. With the success of the Doom Patrol, which began in My Greatest Adventures, the title was changed to Doom Patrol with #86. The first series ran to issue #124, then the number restarted with the reincarnation in 1987 with another 87 issues, followed by five more mini-series. This volume collects My Greatest Adventure #80-85; Doom Patrol #86-102; The Brave and the Bold #65; Challengers of the Unknown #48; Teen Titans #6, 1963-66. DC Finest presents comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and eras!