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  Don Markstein's Toonopedia: The Doom Patrol
The similarities between that group and DC's Doom Patrol are uncanny, but the two debuted so close together (Doom Patrol with a June, 1963 cover date and X-Men three months later) that it's very unlikely either was influenced by the other.
The Doom Patrol first appeared in the 80th issue of My Greatest Adventure, a DC comic that had hitherto featured non-series fantasy stories (usually told in the first person).
Doom Patrol was among the first superhero series to come to an actual conclusion, rather than simply disappear when the comic was cancelled.
www.toonopedia.com /doompatr.htm   (787 words)

  
  Titans Tower Library: Doom Patrol Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
On the verge of victory, the Doom Patrol is forced to allow their enemies to escape or risk their detonation of a bomb that could destroy all life on Earth.
The Doom Patrol returns in time to help battle the Vulture and his trained birds, but they in turn must be rescued by the arrival of the Chief's Indian friend, White Feather, and his warriors, who also have an old score to settle with the Black Vulture.
While the Doom Patrol is occupied with his machinations, he is able to undo the Chief's rehabilitation of Madame Rouge, who disappears and becomes a villainess in her own right, swearing to destroy the Chief.
www.titanstower.com /source/libindex/doompatindex.html   (4170 words)

  
 SAVANT:: Essential
The Doom Patrol is one of those things, a comic book so vast and detailed and original that the only thing I can compare it to is Maldoror, an 18th century surrealist epic prose poem all about the nature of evil.
The Doom Patrol was a team of cripples; physically and mentally, and literally and metaphorically.
Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage is by Grant Morrison and Richard Case and is published by DC Comics.
www.savantmag.com /week3/essential3.html   (831 words)

  
 Doom Patrol
The Doom Patrol is a name that has been used by five semi-related DC Comics superhero teams.
The initial Doom Patrol, bitter from being isolated from the world, were motivated by Caulder to use their powers for the greater good.
In August 2004, a new Doom Patrol series was launched, written and illustrated by John Byrne, with inks by Doug Hazlewood.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Doom_Patrol.php   (1739 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Doom Patrol, Book 1: Crawling From the Wreckage: Books: Grant Morrison
Doom Patrol was the most brilliant, imaginative, innovative comic of the Eighties and early Nineties.
He also brought us Danny the Street, the Doom Patrol's roving HQ, a sentient street that happened to be a transvestite.
Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol is wonderful, and these trade books are great, but the stories in this particular one are not up to par with some of the better stuff in the others...
www.amazon.com /Doom-Patrol-Book-Crawling-Wreckage/dp/1563890348   (1671 words)

  
 Doom Patrol Images
The outfit she's wearing helps contain the heat to a limited degree and was given to her by Gar.
One great thing about Doom Patrol is the way Arcudi has brought in Gar, something none of the other teams had done.
Disclaimer: Doom Patrol and the Purple Purposeless are the property of DC Comics.
mysticmanor.tripod.com /ladytimedramon/id2.html   (369 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Gar Logan's Friends & Family
He never got the chance, however; during their final case, the original Doom Patrol was apparently destroyed in an explosion, choosing to sacrifice themselves to their enemies rather than allow the men and women of a small fishing village to be killed.
Doom Patrol headquarters is invaded by Gar Logan, a teenager with green skin and the ability to transform himself into any known animal.
After the demise of the Doom Patrol, Gar Logan returned to his acting job with the Space Trek: 2022 TV series, during which an old Doom Patrol, foe, the Arsenal, made an unsuccessful attempt on his life.
www.titanstower.com /source/whoswho/beastboyfam.html   (5170 words)

  
 The Ghostbusters Message Board - Ghostbusters: Doom Patrol
Doom Patrol's website can be found at the link below and for quick convenience, all of our stories can be accessed by clicking the signature banner of any member of Doom Patrol on Ghostbusters.net.
His character in Doom Patrol is a slight exahggeration of his real life self from about a year or two ago (catch him online and ask him about the video he made of himself tombstoning his brother).
Something you should know is that Doom Patrol subscribes to a specific area of writing that many other fictional Ghostbusters franchises have subscribed to: The Omnibus Timeline.
forums.ghostbusters.net /post-102916.html   (2237 words)

  
 The Doom Patrol Review
Doom Patrol (Volume 1) #86, 89, 90, 95, 102, 103, 104, 121, 122, 123, 124
Doom Patrol (Volume 2) #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 46
The Doom Patrol and all other characters and comic books mentioned in this site are the property of DC Comics, Inc. They are used here without permission.
members.tripod.com /doompatrolreview   (166 words)

  
 Titans Tower: Doom Patrol Amazing Heroes
In The Doom Patrol #95 (May, 1965), the Chief, with Rita's consent, told Cliff and Larry that the weird gases that allowed her to contract or expand were slowly killing her.
As if the Doom Patrol did not have enough trouble with the appearances of the Brotherhood (who battled the DP in 18 issues: #86, 87, 90, 93, 96, 97, 101, 104, 107-112, 118, 119, 121 and BandB #65), they had more than their share of sundry villains.
By the end of Doom Patrol #112, (June, 1967), finishing an adventure that severed Garguax's membership in the Brotherhood, the Chief became convinced that he might succeed in undoing the work of the Brain and draw away another member from the Brotherhood.
www.titanstower.com /source/libearly/doompatrol.html   (6445 words)

  
 Doom Patrol #12
Once he was in the air, Doom planned to catch him in a crossfire between Godzilla's flame, claws and tail.
Doom muttered profanities under his breath as his used every scanning device at his command to locate Godzilla.
Doom will be back, you can be sure of that, but not for a while.
www.angelfire.com /comics/comicbookuniverse/dcm/dp12.htm   (2532 words)

  
 Movie Poop Shoot - COMICS 101
As Doom Patrol creator Arnold Drake describes in the foreword to the first DC Archives collection of Doom Patrol, DC was just starting to react to changing times in 1963, both in the world at large and in the comic-book industry.
One of the Doom Patrol’s most tenacious foes was General Immortus, an ancient criminal mastermind who had lived for centuries, and was obsessed with finding the key to immortality.
Half the time, DOOM PATROL seemed more like a superhero snuff film, as Drake and Premiani found new ways to dismember, melt, perforate or otherwise maim Robotman, all while Cliff usually looked on, horrified, waiting for whatever atrocity was mutilating his body to eventually reach his vulnerable human brain.
www.moviepoopshoot.com /comics101/72.html   (2602 words)

  
 Doom Patrol #9 Review - Silver Bullet Comics
Byrne reintroduces the relationships in Doom Patrol, and there's a certain fittingness to the whole affair.
You can in fact argue that he like the Doom Patrol was not really a super-hero at all but a trouble-shooter and adventurer.
Doom Patrol continues to be a thoroughly entertaining and artistically pleasurable adventure book that features characters for whom you care and instigates those feelings through more than mere nostalgia.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/110879285784624.htm   (522 words)

  
 DC's "Doom Patrol" to Hit the Big Screen
Says Variety: "Warner Bros. Pictures is giving new life to DC Comics cult favorite "Doom Patrol," about a band of superheroes with freakish powers, with Akiva Goldsman producing the bigscreen adaptation through his Warners-based Weed Road Pictures.
Debuting in 1963, "Doom Patrol" was often compared to Marvel's "X-Men." Both comics follow the exploits of a band of super-powered social misfits ostracized by the rest of the world.
Doom Patrol is pretty lame as it is, but this is the clincher...
www.rottentomatoes.com /news/comments/?entryid=345773   (1053 words)

  
 Cosmic Teams!
The Doom Patrol was assembled by Niles Caulder (the Chief) whose intent was to study the effects of traumatic events on individuals; this was a part of his greater ambition to invent an immortality serum.
Apparently this Doom Patrol's existence was an even bigger "wrinkle" in time, because their existence was erased in favor of the original's return.
But Nudge and Grunt were unhappy with the Doom Patrol and once Nudge was finally able to assert enough control, they escaped — right into the waiting arms of Crucifer, the vampire.
www.mykey3000.com /cosmicteams/cosmic/d.html   (4929 words)

  
 iComics.com
In this day and age of corporate identity and branding, it stands to reason that the megacorporations would get into the superhero game, taking existing name recognition and appropriating it for their own.
So when Cliff Steele, whose human brain in a robot body made him known as Robotman and the singular mainstay of all Doom Patrol incarnations, is offered a sizable amount of money to rent the Doom Patrol name to a larger company, it sounds like a perfect deal.
Doom Patrol is a monthly book from DC Comics.
www.icomics.com /rev_032002_doompatrol.shtml   (677 words)

  
 Doom Patrol Listing at Box Office Prophets
They are called Doom Patrol, and Hollywood is preparing to give this 40-year-old group theatrical life for the first time.
The members of Doom Patrol were written to be the ultimate outcasts.
Their members included a paraplegic genius, the brain of a star athlete trapped in the body of a robot, a woman who could shrink down to an inch or grow to be 100 feet tall, and a man composed entirely of negative energy wrapped in bandages.
www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/listing.cfm?TMID=3629   (785 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/thedoompatrol
Doom Patrol songs like Doom Patrol fans touch on many parts of the musical spectrum- from rock to hip-hop, from pop to dance hall and beyond.
Formed three years ago The Doom Patrol is composed of four very distinct individuals with impossibly wide-ranging influences- Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Stevie Wonder, Nirvana, AC/DC, Queen, Seal, and Jamiroquai to name a few.
Doom Patrol shows are a hard-edged affair full of funkier and grittier versions of the band's often complex songs.
www.myspace.com /thedoompatrol   (937 words)

  
 Comic Book Quotes, page 1 of 6
Father McGarry's last sight, in DOOM PATROL #20.
Cliff Steele meets Black Annis in DOOM PATROL #21.
Josh and Niles Caulder, in DOOM PATROL #34
www.amk.ca /quotations/comics   (1420 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Doom Patrol Down Paradise Way: Books: Richard Case,Grant Morrison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Grade 10 Up–A group of rejects recruited as superheroes, the Doom Patrol includes a man trapped in a robots body, an ape girl, and a radioactive hermaphrodite.
The story lines, which include the adventures of a transvestite street named Danny and a conceptual showdown in the zone of words that kill, may be too abstract to hold teens interest.
During Morrison's run on Doom Patrol, plotlines generally took a backseat to outlandish concepts, and later issues bordered on incomprehensibility.
www.amazon.ca /Doom-Patrol-Down-Paradise-Way/dp/140120726X   (432 words)

  
 monkeysvsrobots.com - THE DOOM PATROL EXTRAVAGANZA
The Doom Patrol was dubbed “The World’s Strangest Heroes”, a group of super freaks that made their debut in the spiffy ‘60s comic My Greatest Adventure.
The Doom Patrol comic series have been around for a while and the roster has changed a good deal since the olden days; many writers and artists have come and gone.
The Doom Patrol is a group of losers, has-beens and never-weres with unusual super-powers that often make them wish they were just normal like me. I identify with these junkyard dogs of the super-hero world, and maybe you will too.
monkeysvsrobots.com /mvsrpm/doompatrol_comments.php?id=P127_0_24_0_C   (379 words)

  
 Index to Comic Art Collection: "Doom Patrol" to "Doom Patrols"
in Doom Patrol, no. 23 (June 1989) ; reprinted in paperback: Crawling from the Wreckage (New York : DC Comics, 1992) -- Data from Gene Reed & John Bullough, via Grand Comic-Book Database.
Evans" (Doom Patrol) / Richard Case & Scott Hanna, artists ; Grant Morrison, writer ; Daniel Vozzo, colorist ; John Workman, letterer ; Tom Peyer, editor.
Doom Patrol : the Official Index / Murray R. Ward, writer and editor.
www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/drri/doom_p.htm   (8383 words)

  
 PrettyFakes » Blog Archive » Back Issue Bonanza: John Arcudi’s Doom Patrol
So, in my continuing quest to spend the summer reading Doom Patrol comics, I picked up the first seven issues of the 2001 John Arcudi series.
The previous attempt to launch a Doom Patrol ongoing–the Kupperberg run that began in 1987–was characterized by a kind of grimacing aimlessness.
The meta-narrative hook of the series is that this incarnation of the Doom Patrol is unabashedly corporate.
prettyfakes.com /?p=676   (1404 words)

  
 PULP CULTURE for JULY 8, 2004: DC Comics, Byrne should never have resurrected 'Doom Patrol'
The first issue appeared last week, but it's clear already that Byrne's "Doom Patrol" is contending to be the year's worst new superhero comic.
The Doom Patrol was the first team of superheroic outcasts, first appearing in the June 1963 issue of "My Greatest Adventure," nearly six months before the publication of "X-Men" No. 1.
He writes that each new version of the Doom Patrol made the team's backstory more and more complex: "Like the chains dragging behind Marley's Ghost, the Doom Patrol was, each time out, bringing with it a lot of stuff that could be quite daunting for a new reader."
home.hiwaay.net /~tfharris/pulpculture/columns/040708.shtml   (655 words)

  
 Doom Patrol online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
You'll be the coolest kid on the block with a white or fl Doom Patrol t-shirt featuring this snazzy image of the Patrol - only $24.95!
Click here for other Doom Patrol and comics links!
The Doom Patrol is a licensed trademark of Jost Enterprises and, of course, DC Comics.
www.rpi.edu /~bulloj/Doom_Patrol   (112 words)

  
 Midtowncomics.com :: Online Comics Store, Spiderman, Superman, Batman Comic Books and Toys
Doom Patrol Vol 1 Crawling From The Wreckage TP New Ptg
This new printing of the first collection of Grant Morrison's DOOM PATROL run includes issues #19-25 of the series, including the restoration of three story pages omitted from the original printing....
Doom Patrol Vol 3 Down Paradise Way TP
www.midtowncomics.com /eshop/searchresult.asp?skey=Doom+Patrol   (292 words)

  
 doOm pAtROl!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Steven Shaviro's "Doom Patrols" hypertext novel: Shaviro's "Doom Patrols" uses Doom Patrol, among other things, to talk about postmodernism.
Doom Patrol Soundtrack: (music by Siouxsie and the Banshees, soundtrack assembled by Alara Rogers) I always thought Siouxsie and the Banshees were the ultimate Doom Patrol band.
This is my "soundtrack" for Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol series, using songs from throughout Siouxsie and the Banshees' discography.
www.alara.net /doom.html   (237 words)

  
 Comic to Film: Doom Patrol - /FILM
The Doom Patrol is an idiosyncratic superhero team much like the X-Men.
The first Doom Patrol consisted of super-powered misfits, whose "gifts" caused them as much alienation and trauma as they did abilities beyond normal human beings.
Although superficially similar to the X-Men, who debuted the same year, the Doom Patrol are considered one of the most unique superhero teams of the Silver Age.
www.slashfilm.com /article.php/2006072001194966   (271 words)

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