Doom Patrol The Silver Age Vol 1

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.

In this second helping of Silver Age Doom Patrol adventures, the world's strangest super-team investigates the mystery of the blue stone monkeys that are driving men to murder! Plus, General Immortus, Garguax, and the Brotherhood of Evil scheme to turn humanity into crystal beings under their control! Collects Doom Patrol #96-107, Challengers of the Unknown #48, and The Brave and the Bold #65.

The team of misfit heroes known as the Doom Patrol made their debuts inthese stories from the 1960s. Racecar driver Cliff Steele, test pilot LarryTrainor, and movie star Rita Farr all left their civilian lives behind when theybecame the heroes known as Robotman, Negative Man, and Elasti-Woman -- theoutcast heroes known as the Doom Patrol. Led by the irascible, wheelchair-boundChief Niles Caulder, the team would face such menaces as Professor Immortus, theAnimal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and the Brotherhood of Evil, a team of evil-doersthat includes Madame Rouge, the Brain (a disembodied brain in a dish) andMonsieur Mallah, a beret-wearing, gun-toting gorilla. Collects MY GREATESTADVENTURE #80-85 and DOOM PATROL #86-97

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.

Relive the legendary 1990s JLA series, written by comics mastermind Grant Morrison (FINAL CRISIS) with stunning art by Howard Porter and others, in this amazing oversized softcover collecting JLA #1-9 and SECRET FILES AND ORIGINS #1! The action begins as the JLA reunites to stop the Hyperclan, who have come to Earth posing as a new group of super heroes. But as their true nature comes to light, only the World's Greatest Super Heroes can stop them! Standing side by side, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter take on alien posers and come to realize that Earth needs a protectorate made up of only the mightiest icons!

The groundbreaking series from Grant Morrison that led American comics in a wholly unexpected direction. Originally conceived in the 1960s by the visionary team of writer Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani, the Doom Patrol was reborn a generation later through Grant MorrisonÕs singular imagination. Though they are super-powered beings, and though their foes are bent on world domination, convention ends there. Shunned as freaks and outcasts, and tempered by loss and insanity, this band of misfits faces threats so mystifying in nature and so corrupted in motive that reality itself threatens to fall apart around them-but itÕs still all in a dayÕs work for the Doom Patrol. Written by Grant Morrison and featuring art by Richard Case, John Nyberg, Doug Braithwaite, Scott Hanna and Carlos Garz—n, DOOM PATROL BOOK ONE collects issues #19-34 and includes introductions by Morrison and editor Tom Peyer.

Former teammates return to drag the Doom Patrol down into their graves. In the face of absolute horror, can any death wish survive?

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.