They were outcast heroes, bound together by fate, led by their mysterious, wheelchair-bound Chief: Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and Beast Boy.Their strange powers made them the objects of fear instead of hero worship. In the 1960s, they were the most unusual super-team comics readers had ever seen. In this fourth volume of their Archive series, the Doom Patrol faces such bizarre menaces as Mr. 103, Ultimax, and the Brotherhood of Evil, including the duo of the Braina disembodied, super-intelligent brainand Monsieur Mallah, an evil, talking ape who speaks with a French accent.

n the final volume in the DOOM PATROL series, featuring issues #114-121, the team battles the Mutant Master, the Galactic Gladiator, the Black Vulture,and more before meeting one of the strangest ends any super-team has everexperienced!

It was 1963, and amid the ever-growing number of super-hero titles that had been proliferating on spinner racks across the country a very different comic appeared, featuring a group of misfit loners cursed by fate with special powers and gathered together by a mysterious wheelchair-bound mentor to defend their very persecutors ... That book was, of course, The X-Men, published by Marvel Comics. But what concerns us here is a title of exactly the same description that was published by DC Comics three months earlier: The Doom Patrol!

Originally published as My Greatest Adventure #80-85, The Doom Patrol #86-101.

Out of the Silver Age of Comics came a very different comic book team, featuring a new breed of superheroes. Cast out of society due to their deformities, the Doom Patrol were a group of misfit loners not blessed, but cursed, with unnatural powers. These human odditiesÑElasti-Girl, Negative Man, Robotman and the ChiefÑsave the world one strange case at a time. See them take on such equally bizarre villains like the undying criminal mastermind General Immortus, shape-shifting Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, the Brotherhood of Evil and more! Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Volume One kicks off Arnold Drake and Bruno PremianiÕs beloved series with tales from My Greatest Adventure #80-85 and The Doom Patrol #86-95.

Reprinting for the first time some of DC Comics' rarest publictions from the Golden Age of comics, including three early anthology titles in their entirety. Features appearances by virtually every Golden Age hero: Superman, Batman, Wonder, Sandman, Hawkman, Scribbly, The Atom, Wildcat and more. An action-packed adventure, this volume of classic tales is sure to entertain!

For the world's strangest heroes, staving off the annihilation of free will or the reformatting of the universe into an artistic statement is all in a day's work -- not to mention the everyday assassination attempts and visits from Satan.