![]() ![]() The name chosen for the group reflected the bitterness engendered by their estrangement from the world. Elasti-Girl (later called Elasti-Woman), Negative Man and Robotman (the last named after a '40s DC character), as they came to be called, were brought together by a mysterious figure who, at first, identified himself only as "The Chief". Racecar driver Cliff Steele had survived a near-fatal crash only to wake up in the hospital and find his brain had been transplanted from his ruined body to that of a powerful robot. (Her name may or may not have been inspired by Rita Farrar, a Fiction House character who did her adventuring as Señorita Rio.) Pilot Larry Traynor had a weird accident that gave him the power to control a powerful energy being, but cut him off from the rest of humanity by making him dangerously radioactive. Actress Rita Farr's career was ruined when a chemical accident caused her body to grow and shrink - she eventually got the transformations under control, but by then the movie industry had forgotten her. 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). 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. If this sounds like a description of Marvel Comics' X-Men, it's probably just a coincidence. Heroes who seldom get thanked for saving the world, because Society feared and mistrusted them Outcasts, loners, shunned by society because of their freakish abilities gathered together by a man in a wheelchair to find solace in one another's company the kind of Please contribute to its necessary financial support. There is no official release date or time for Doom Patrol Season 4 Episode 7 just yet, but we will keep you posted on the release schedule of season 4, part two, as soon as it becomes available.If this site is enjoyable or useful to you,
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