THE DOOM PATROL MEMBERSHIP TOUR (Part I)

In 1963, two new superhero teams made their debut.  Each consisted of members who were outcasts from society, and both teams were led by a man in a wheelchair.  One of these teams was the X-Men, published by Marvel Comics, debuting in X-Men (vol. 1) #1 with a cover date of September 1963.  The other group, published by DC Comics, was the Doom Patrol.  This team made their debut in My Greatest Adventure #80... three months before the X-Men.

The Doom Patrol, like the X-Men, has had many incarnations.  The Doom Patrol has never garnered the popularity of its Marvel counterpart team, but it has certainly had its share of popular publication periods over the years.  In this tour, we will look at the various individuals who have been members of the Doom Patrol, in six various rosters, from 1963 through 2020. 

Because of the longevity and accumulated membership of various Doom Patrols, this tour will be broken into two legs!  The first leg commences here...

My Greatest Adventure began publication in 1954 (issue #1 carried a cover date of January 1955).  It was an anthology title that typically focused on non-powered individuals placed in circumstances where they had to overcome foreign government spies, strange alien beings, creatures from UFOs, gigantic animals, and time-displaced dinosaurs.  The series typically featured 3 original tales in each issue.

My Greatest Adventure #1, cover art by John Prentice

The format of My Greatest Adventure changed dramatically in 1963 with issue #80.  This issue contained one singular (though multi-chapter) story, and for the first time featured superheroes... though they are coyly billed as "the world's strangest heroes!"  The dramatic cover reveals the names of two of these heroes, Automaton and Negative-Man.  One would need to read the full story to find out who else might be part of this cover-boasted "Doom Patrol"!

My Greatest Adventure #80, cover art by Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani, and Joe Letterese

Inside this issue, we meet the Chief, a wheelchair-bound scientific genius who has gathered a trio of individuals to his headquarters.  He explains that he knows they are outcasts, but he is confident he can provide them with support and purpose.  They can become a team of costumed heroes who will utilize the "curses" they possess and help better society.  The Chief then dramatically shows this trio that he too understands being "different", as he rolls himself into their presence revealing his confinement to a wheelchair.

The Chief shows these three beings that he has an entire sanctuary established to help fend off forces that he knows are growing.  Forces he knows that his gathered team can help him defeat.  He will be the brains, and they will be able to carry out his needs beyond the limits of the chair that confines him.  After their initial team-up defeating General Immortus, the quartet agreed to give things a go and continue working together.

 

Following their initial outing, the Doom Patrol became the only feature published in future issues of My Greatest Adventure,  The team proved so popular, that with issue #86, the title of the series was officially changed to Doom Patrol.  Their eponymous title would continue for another 5 years.

The Chief
Real Name:  Niles Caulder

First Appearance:  My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
Created by:  Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani
Shown Here:  Portrayed by Timothy Dalton on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Niles Caulder is a genius who amassed great wealth through his scientific knowledge, innovations, and inventions.  He uses this wealth to fund his Doom Patrol.  In addition to founding the team to help society, he also intended that his Doom Patrol would show the world that tolerance is needed for those who are different, rather than ostracization.  

One of Caulder's earliest inventions was a chemical capable of prolonging life.  He unwittingly created this for General Immortus, a villain who would eventually be one of the Patrol's primary villains.  It was Immortus who caused Caulder to lose the use of his legs.

Robotman
Real Name:  Cliff Steele

First Appearance:  My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
Created by:  Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani
Shown Here:  Portrayed by Riley Shanahan (voiced by Brendan Fraser) on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

In the first two Doom Patrol stories, Cliff was given the name Automaton, but on their third outing, his name was permanently changed to Robotman.

Cliff Steele was a professional racecar driver whose body was destroyed in a vehicle accident while competing in the Indianapolis 500.  Cliff didn't die though.  He woke to discover that his brain had been transferred into a robotic body that responded to his thoughts the same way his physical one had.  This mechanical body also gave him immense strength, durability, and endurance.  Originally Cliff was not aware of how his brain/persona had been saved. But, it was revealed in the first Doom Patrol tale that it had been Niles Caulder (The Chief) who performed this operation.

Robotman is the only Doom Patrol member to be included in every incarnation of the team to date.

Though his original body was built by the Chief, several subsequent versions of the robot body were built by Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men.

Negative Man  
Real Name:  Larry Trainor

First Appearance:  My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)
Created by:  Bob Haney, Arnold Drake, and Bruno Premiani
Shown Here:  Portrayed by Matthew Zuk (voiced by Matt Bomer) on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Larry Trainor was a pilot who was exposed to a radioactive field in the upper atmosphere while conducting a test flight of a new type of plane.  This exposure leaves him radioactive, so he has to wrap his entire body in chemically treated bandages that prevent his radioactivity from harming others.  A strange ability also accompanied this transformation.  Larry can release a Negative Being/Spirit from his body.  This entity can travel as superspeed, cause objects to explode, and travel through solid materials.  When the Negative Being is released, Larry's physical body is weakened and generally collapses.  Larry risks death if the Negative Being is separated from his physical body for more than 60 seconds.

Elasti-Girl

First Appearance:  My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963)

Created by:  Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani

Shown Here:  Portrayed by April Bowlby on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Rita Farr is a former Olympic swimmer turned movie actress.  While filming a movie in Africa, Rita is exposed to strange volcanic gasses.  Soon afterwards she begins to grow and then shrink at odd times.  Because she originally seems to have no control over these abilities, she becomes a danger to herself and to those around her.  For this reason, she is originally considered an outcast.  However, over time it does seem difficult to imagine that she experiences the same physical discomfort that Negative Man and Robotman go through.

Rita eventually learns to master her size-altering powers and also learns how to grow an individual limb or appendage (such as an arm or hand) individually.  

In some future incarnations, the Rita will use the codename Elasti-Woman.

A year after the team debuted, they would meet Steve Dayton, the world's 5th richest man and owner of Dayton Industries.  Steve would become the first new member admitted to the Doom Patrol.

Mento

Real Name: Steve Dayton

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #91 (Nov. 1964)

Created by:  Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Will Kemp on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Steve builds a helmet that enhances his mental abilities.  Donning the helmet and a costume, he sets out to be a fighter of evil, though his original motivation for this was one of impressing Elasti-Girl, not one of true altruism.  

Steve is quite arrogant and is generally not appreciated by the male members of the Patrol.  But over time, he does indeed win the heart of Rita (Elasti-Girl) Farr and the two eventually marry.  After that marriage, Mento continues to work with the team on a semi-regular basis.

In 1965, the Doom Patrol meets Garfield Logan, who uses the codename Beast Boy.   As a young child, he was raised in Africa by his parents who were both scientists, conducting scientific research.  After contracting a rare illness called Sakutia, his parents used an experimental serum to cure him. The serum saved his life, but also turned his skin green and provided him with the ability to change into any animal.

Beast Boy
Real Name:  Garfield Logan

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #99 (Nov. 1965)

Created by:  Arnold Drake and Bob Brown

Shown Here: Portrayed by Ryan Potter on the Max-streaming series, The Titans.

Gar's parents died in a boating accident and he is eventually adopted by the newly married Steve (Mento) Dayton and Rita (Elasti-Girl) Farr-Dayton.

Gar would achieve a much higher level of fame and recognition when he eventually became a member of the New Teen Titans.

The original membership of the Doom Patrol, art by John Byrne

After five years of adventures, sales for the Doom Patrol began to wane.  Editor Murry Boltinoff, writer Arnold Drake, and artist Bruno Premiani decide to give the team a true heroic finale.  In Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #121 (cover-dated October 1968), the four founding Doom Patrol members head off to a secondary headquarters on an unnamed island in the Caribbean.  While there, General Zahd and Madam Rouge are able to capture, and negate the powers, of each Patrol member.  

Doom Patrol #121, cover art by Joe Orlando

General Zahd wants to publicly humiliate the Chief and his Doom Patrol.  Zahd informs the captured Patrol members that he has planted a bomb on their island, and another bomb in the small fishing town of Codsville, Maine, population 14.  The Doom Patrol has two minutes to decide which bomb that Zahl will detonate.  Zahl is sure that the team will choose to save themselves and thus be reviled by the public.  But Zahl was wrong.  All four Doom Patrol members tell Zahl to "fire away" at them.  Zahl detonates the bomb and the Caribbean island blows up, taking the Doom Patrol with it.  Despite often being treated as outcasts and freaks by most of society, the Doom Patrol sacrificed themselves and died as true heroes, saving the lives of 14 New England citizens. 

Steve Dayton is seen mourning the loss of his wife and vows that her shrine will live on within him.  The citizens of Codsville unanimously vote to change the name of their town to Four Heroes, Maine.  And with that, the Doom Patrol is no more.  At least for the time being.

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Almost a decade after the heroic sacrifice of the Doom Patrol, a second incarnation of the team would debut in Showcase #94 (September 1977).  

Showcase #94, cover art by Jim Aparo

DC Editor Paul Levitz requested that writer Paul Kupperberg and artist Joe Stanton try to bring the team back.  Kupperberg chose to honor the heroic death of the original team by establishing in this new tale that their sacrifice still took place... with a small update.  Robotman's body washed ashore on another Caribbean island and was discovered by Will Magnus, inventor of the superhero team known as the Metal Men.  Magnus created an updated robotic body for Cliff and had his brain transferred yet again.

When his survival is discovered, he's convinced to join a new version of the Doom Patrol, recently formed and led by a woman claiming to be the wife of Niles (The Chief) Caulder.

Celcius

Real Name: Arani Desai Caulder

First Appearance:  Showcase #94 (Sept. 1977)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Joe Stanton

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Jasmine Kaur on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Arani was born in India.  Though she was originally from a family of wealth, she eventually found herself living on the streets of Calcutta.  While there she became very ill and was rescued by Doctor Niles Caulder.  He used his immortality serum on her to assist in her healing.  Niles would leave Arani in the Himalayas to keep her safe from the activities of his original Doom Patrol in the United States. 

While there, Arani discovered that Nile's serum had also given her additional powers.  She could control her own core body temperature and also generate heat and cold.  She also mastered forms of martial arts.

When she learned of the death of her husband and the original Doom Patrol, she refused to believe that Niles was dead and this led to her creation of a second Doom Patrol.  The team was formed to battle Nile's many enemies while also looking to find if he had escaped the explosion.

Tempest

Real Name:  Joshua Clay

First Appearance:  Showcase #94 (Sept. 1977)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Joe Stanton

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Alimi Ballard on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Joshua grew up in one of the worst slums in New York.  He ran afoul of the law after joining a street gang and was offered the opportunity to go to prison or join the U.S. military.  He opted for the latter and was trained as a combat medic.  During a tour in Vietnam he witnessed one of his superiors attempt to destroy an innocent village and it enraged Joshua to the point that his mutant abilities, unknown before this event, engaged.  He released one of his kinetic energy blasts and believed that he had killed his superior officer.  Following this event he went AWOL and returned to the U.S., living on the lam until Arani Desai offered him membership to her new Doom Patrol.

Tempest can shoot kinetic blasts from his hands.  His powers are fueled by solar energy.  Following years of practice, Tempest has incredible control over the range, volume, and intensity of his blasts.  His powers also give him the ability to fly.

Negative Woman

Real Name:  Valentina Vostok

First Appearance:  Showcase #94 (Sept. 1977)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Joe Stanton

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Mariana Klaveno on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

The final member of the second incarnation of the Doom Patrol is Negative Woman.  Valentina Vostok was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian military who stole a fighter plane from her home country in the hopes of defecting to the United States.  Her plane malfunctioned and went down in the Caribbean region where the original Doom Patrol had been blown up by General Zahl.  Her body became merged with the Negative Being that had originally fused with Larry Trainor.  Unlike Trainor, Valentina was originally able to convert herself back and forth from her normal self to a Negative self.

New Doom Patrol leader Celsius convinced Valentina to join her team, and Valentina assumed the name Negative Woman.  Eventually, her powers began to change and she found her physical body becoming radioactive.  She would need to wrap herself in special bandages to prevent possibly harming others, and she would eventually release the Negative Being rather than convert to it.

After a three-issue debut in Showcase #94 through #96 (1977), this incarnation of the Doom Patrol failed to find an immediate audience.  Instead of being awarded their own new title, they instead were relegated to occasional guest-star status in various popular DC titles from 1977 through 1987.  

In The New Teen Titans (vol. 1) #14 (Dec. 1981), it is revealed that Cliff made a request from Dayton Industries for them to rebuild his original body.

A year later in another notable appearance of the Doom Patrol in DC Comics Presents #52 (Dec. 1982), Valentina loses control of the Negative Entity.  No longer able to convert back and forth, she discovers that she will need to always cover herself in the same type of chemically treated bandages that Larry Trainor had to use.

Finally, in 1987, this new team was given its own title.  It was an opportunity for the Doom Patrol to possibly have another successful run.  This volume of Doom Patrol proved to be very successful, but not in the way initially envisioned!

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This volume was originally written by Paul Kupperberg with art by Steve Lightle (the art chores were handed off to Erik Larsen just a few issues in).  The team's lineup begins with Celsius, Robotman, Negative Woman, and Tempest.  

Celsius finds the wheelchair previously used by her husband Niles Caulder, and is convinced he is still alive.  She implores her new Doom Patrol, once again, to help her find him.  In issue #2 it is revealed that Larry (Negative Man) Trainor is still alive.  Larry becomes a supporting member of the team. 

Within the first six months of this series, the team also inducts three new members. 

Lodestone

Real Name:  Rhea Jones

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol.2) #3 (Dec. 1987)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Steve Lightle

Shown Here: Portrayed by Lesa Wilson in the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Rhea Jones was in the vicinity of an explosion involving a radioactive electromagnet. This event imbued her with electromagnetic powers.Lodestone possessed super strength, flight, and the ability to create force fields. She could also attract or repel magnetic items.

Karma

Real Name:  Wayne Hopkins

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol.2) #4 (Jan. 1988)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Steve Lightle

Shown Here: Portrayed by Nick Padgett in the 2021 movie The Suicide Squad.

Karma (Wayne Hopkins) was originally believed to have the ability to manipulate probability in his opponents. Forcing "bad luck" as it were. He later discovered his true psychic ability was one of disrupting the motor skills of his opponents.

Blaze 

Real Name:  Scott Fischer

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol.2) #6 (March 1988)

Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Erik Larsen
Scott Fischer was exposed to toxic waste, which ignited his meta-human powers. His hands radiated heat of varying intensities up to the level of creating flames. He had to wear special gloves at all times to prevent him from accidentally harming someone. As a member of the Doom Patrol, he didn't actually utilize a codename. The name Blaze was recommended by a reader and it stuck, being utilized by fans outside of the title's continuity. (Decades later, in another incarnation of the Doom Patrol, he would reappear using the codename Scorch.)

The three new members were much younger than the core team. DC had had great sales success in the early 1980s with The New Teen Titans and The Legion of Super-Heroes. Both of those titles centered around teams of younger heroes. No doubt these new recruits to this Doom Patrol were meant to appeal to a similar demographic of readers.

Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #8, cover art by Erik Larsen and Art Adams
The team's primary membership under the writing of Paul Kupperberg

The title had good intentions.  It wanted to flesh out the personalities of its four core members along with melding in three new brash and bold teenagers.  Sales were originally good, but the title lacked the very essence of what the Doom Patrol was supposed to be about.  Instead, it turned into standard "superhero" fare.  Their unique perspective as outcasts and rejects performing heroics for a society that feared them, had been lost.

Hoping to shake things up, DC hired Grant Morrison to take over the writing of the series beginning with issue #19 (Feb. 1989).  To further support Morrison, DC opted to remove the CCA (Comics Code Authority) approval process.  The title would no longer carry the CCA seal on its covers, nor would it submit these issues for any approval process.  DC was ready to let the Doom Patrol freak flag fly... and it did!

Kupperberg agreed to assist with the transition.  He helped write off many of the characters he had created, but whom new writer Morrison didn't want to utilize.  During this period of transition, a separate DC cross-over event titled Invasion! was also taking place. Kupperberg and Grant would utilize Invasion! to assist with planned alterations in the Doom Patrol series. 

In the Invasion! cross-over event, several alien races attack the Earth in an attempt to isolate the metagene in humans that are the cause of the powers of many of our planet's heroes (and villains).  They set off a Gene Bomb that wreaks havoc with all humans who possess a meta gene.  The powers of many heroes are altered, canceled, and/or augmented.  Many humans who previously were unaware they had a metagene find themselves with powers, while subsequently many humans who had been aware of their powers, are often no longer able to control them.

Some highlights during the transition between Kupperberg and Morrision include the following:

• The Chief is revealed to be alive.  He too survived the Caribbean explosion and has been living in seclusion in Washington DC.
• Celsius is killed in an explosion during the Invasion, sacrificing herself to take down an alien invasion ship.
• Scott "Blaze" Fischer dies when the Gene Bomb reactivates his leukemia.  
• After losing possession of the Negative Entity to Negative Man, Negative Women no longer has any powers and she resigns from the team.
• Karma resigns from the group since he's wanted by the law.  He later joins the Suicide Squad.
• Tempest gives up heroics and begins working as a doctor, and as Doom Patrol's physician.
• Lodestone was left comatose after the detonation of the Gene Bomb. 

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Grant Morrison officially took over as writer for the 2nd Doom Patrol in Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #19, dated February, 1989.  His incarnation of the team featured art by Richard Case.  The tone of the book took a rapid turn.  Grant Morrison infused the book with surrealism as the team faced elements of Dada, incorporated secret societies, and played off bizarre concepts of alternate realities.  The strange and the unusual were the new norm... harkening back to the Doom Patrol adventures in the 1960s.

  
The Chief takes control of the group again, but he's short-tempered and his motivations often are suspect.  Because of this, members of the team often distrust him. 

Let's take a look at some of the members added to the team during Grant Morrison's highly acclaimed and successful run on the title.

Crazy Jane
Real Name:  Kay Challis
First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #19 (Feb. 1989)
Created by:  Grant Morrison and Richard Case

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Diane Guerrero on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Kay was repeatedly abused by her father when she was a child. Because of this, her psyche was broken and she developed 64 different personalities. After a rogue Dominator detonated the gene bomb during the DC Invasion event, almost all of Kay's various personalities were given a distinct power.

Her dominant personality is Crazy Jane, who has no powers. The other personalities (referred to as "alters") become dominant usually during times of stress or potential harm.  All but 13 of her alters have been named and their powers documented.

Rebis
Real Name:  Larry Trainor, Eleonor Poole, and the Negative Entity
First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #19 (Feb. 1989)
Created by:  Grant Morrison and Richard Case

Rebis is an entity composed of the joining of Larry Trainer, the Negative Being, and an African-American female physician named Eleanor Poole. Rebis maintained the memories of all three beings and had a physical body that incorporated both Larry and Eleanor, making Rebis one of the first intersex characters represented in comics.

Following the Negative Entity's time in both Trainor and Vostok, it eventually took on a more sentient form and was also capable of speech and independent thought. It was the Negative Entity that forced the divinity merge that created Rebis.

Rebis has powers much more powerful than Negative Man or Negative Woman.

Dorothy Spinner

Real Name: Dorothy Spinner
First Appearance: Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #14 (Nov. 1988)
Created by:  Paul Kupperberg and Erik Larsen

Shown Here:  Portrayed by Abi Monterey on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

Dorothy first appeared before Grant Morrison took over the title.  She was integral to a specific storyline and most likely not intended to become a recurring character. But Morrison added her to his version of the team in Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #25 (August 1989).  

Dorothy was born with a facial deformity that caused her face to look more ape-ish than human, and she also had very hairy arms.  Given up by her birth mother, she was adopted by a couple who lived in the rural Midwest.  Because of her physical differences, she was sheltered from the rest of society.  Her adoptive parents felt she would scare other children.  

Dorothy eventually discovered that she had the special power to bring her imaginary friends to life.  These imaginary friends often have powers and aid Dorothy as she needs them.  But because of Dorothy's naivety, these entities could also be more disruptive than helpful.  She can call upon many imaginary friends, but three of the most common are Paddle the Sky, Dark as the Morning, and Pretty Miss Dot.

Danny The Street

Real Name:  Danny

First Appearance:  Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #35 (Aug. 1990)

Created by:  Grant Morrison and Richard Chase

Shown Here:  Portrayed through special effects on the Max-streaming series, Doom Patrol.

The final new member of the team added by Grant Morrision is Danny the Street.  Danny the Street is a sentient street who can place itself, and blend in, anywhere on the planet. Later, as Dannyland, it gives shelter to those individuals whom many in society have treated with disrespect and condemnation. Danny communicates through signage.  He identifies as gender non-conforming.

For a while, Danny served as the home for the Doom Patrol Headquarters.  

Beginning with issue #37 the title would add "Suggested for Mature Readers" on each cover.

The Grant Morrison run on this volume of Doom Patrol is the primary source material for the Doom Patrol television series that aired for four seasons from 2019 through 2023.  However, it should be noted that the television series took many deviations and liberties, and also integrated characters from outside this particular run.

The final primary member of the team during Morrison's run was a reimagined Lodestone.  After falling into a coma during the events of Invasion!, the Chief realized that Rhea was actually going through a state of metamorphosis, much like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.  When she emerged from her coma, Lodestone's body was humanoid but extremely unique.  Her eyes were now on her chest and her back, her ears were beams of light, and her face had no orifices.  She no longer wore clothing and never stood on the ground, rather, she hovered above it.  She assisted the team for a time but eventually left to explore outer space.  

Lodestone departed in Doom Patrol #41 (volume 2, Feb. 1991). 

The character of the Chief continues to be warped into that of a genius sociopath when it is revealed in Doom Patrol #57 that the Chief was actually responsible for all the accidents that caused the original Doom Patrol (and Celsius).  He felt that by turning privileged people into freaks it would force them to be better human beings.  It was a stunning revelation, one that turned Niles Caulder into more of a villain than a hero.  

The Doom Patrol primary lineup as written by Grant Morrison.

Writer Grant Morrison penned his last tale on the title with issue #63 (volume 2, Jan. 1993).   

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Award-winning novelist, poet, and writer Rachel Pollack was brought on board to helm the writing on volume 2 of the Doom Patrol following Morrison's run.  Ironically, Pollack had noted Morrison's run on Doom Patrol in an article that she wrote for the New York Times just a year earlier as part of her recommended science fiction reads.  So impressed with Morrison's work, in her article, she wrote, "Pray that DP runs forever".   In an introduction letter in Doom Patrol #63, she admitted to being humbled to follow Morrison's "genius". 

Pollack's first issue was Doom Patrol #64 (vol. 2, March 1993) coincided with DC's decision to move this title to its new Vertigo line of titles.  Vertigo was a line intended for mature readers that would allow for adult oriented fare that fell outside the accepted norms of standard DC fare.  Pollack pushed the boundaries of her predecessor with wilder surrealism.  She also incorporated themes of sexuality, identity, gender, and religion.

The Chief was beheaded in Morrison's run, but still appears... his head on ice (kept alive by nanobots)... and is referred to only as The Head.  Robotman and Dorothy Spinner are regular members of the team as well. 

Crazy Jane and Rebis are no longer active with the team, instead opting to reside in Dannyworld. Danny is also no longer an active member of the team.  Under Pollack, the active Patrol members move their headquarters from within Danny and take up residence instead in Violet Valley's Rainbow Estates, an abandoned old mansion haunted by the victims of previous sexual assaults.  This move results in more new members of the team.

The Bandage People

Real Name(s):  There are many, the the primary two are George and Marion

First Appearance: Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #67  (June 1993)

Created by: Rachel Pollack and Linda Medley

A commune of people living in Amsterdam were persuaded to move to Washington DC and soon found themselves enslaved by a group called "the Builders" and their physical bodies were converted to energy. Their energies were contained by supernatural bandages. They would become known as The Bandage People, led by George and Marion.

The Bandage People eventually escaped their imprisonment and took up residence in the abandoned Rainbow Estates... the same location selected by the Doom Patrol as a new base of operations.

The Bandage People learned to control their supernatural bandages and used them in various ways. After the Bandage People assisted the Doom Patrol, they were extended membership in the team.

Inner Child

Real Name: n/a

First Appearance: Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #67 (June 1993)

Created by: Rachel Pollack and Linda Medley

Inner Child is the manifestation of all the innocence and purity of the many ghosts who reside in Rainbow Estates. This manifestation is given physical form through a child-like doll.

Coagula Real Name: Kate Godwin

First Appearance: Doom Patrol (vol. 2) #70 (Sept. 1993)

Created by: Rachel Pollack and Scot Eaton The final new member added to this version of the Doom Patrol was Coagula. Coagula is considered DC's first transgender heroine. Kate Godwin had been a prostitute and at some time had engaged in sexual activities with former Patrol member, Rebis. As a result of this encounter, Kate was imbued with superpowers of her own. Coagula can cause liquids to coagulate, or clot; she can also cause solids to dissolve. Coagula also had a lesser-used power of using technology as a way of foreseeing the future. She lacked control over the latter ability and didn't employ it often.

Coagula was the final addition to the second volume of an ever-changing Doom Patrol. It's later learned that when Coagula and Robotman set out to help Dorothy Spinner find her birth mother, Dorothy misconstrues the situation thinking the two are about to abandon her in the same way her biological mother had. This resulted in Dorothy accidentally setting off a power blast that killed Coagula.

The membership of the Doom Patrol as written by Rachel Pollack  (art by Ted McKeever)

This second iteration of the Doom Patrol was created in 1977. This team earned its own ongoing series a decade later in 1987. Three writers would guide the title through issue #87, published in 1995. This constantly evolving incarnation of the Doom Patrol succeeded in being published for 18 years. An impressive accomplishment, given that the original version of the team upon which they were inspired... only had an initial publication run of 5 years. Rest assured, the journey of the Doom Patrol is far from over. Though its second go-around enjoyed the longest longevity, many writers and artists have desired to try their hand at the next version of the Doom Patrol! We'll pick up with their efforts in the follow-up journey to this tour of the Doom Patrol. Don't worry, there's lots more to come!

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