DC Finest: Doom Patrol: The World's Strangest Heroes

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The original Doom Patrol comic book stories return in this tome-sized collection, featuring the earliest appearances of the unconventional super-team! 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.

Author Bio

Arnold Drake was one of the most notable comic book writers of the Silver Age and Bronze Age, co-creating Deadman and the Doom Patrol at DC, and Guardians of the Galaxy at Marvel. Drake passed away in 2007 at age 83, and was inducted posthumously into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2008.