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Issue Details

Issue #81
Published August 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Murray Boltinoff

Cover Details - "The Nightmare Maker!"

Characters Doom Patrol [Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Reprinted in Doom Patrol Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (March 2002)

9 page Doom Patrol story "The Nightmare Maker (part 1)"

Characters Doom Patrol [The Chief [Niles Caulder]; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]; Dr. Janus
Synopsis The Doom Patrol encounter strange beasts on two missions, and a TV report by Dr. Janus remarks that they are beasts from a meteorite that hit Earth fifteen years ago which, according to eyewitnesses, had living being within. Robotman doesn't remember the incident that way, however.
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake; Bob Haney
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Notes Based on an interview with Bob Haney by Michael Catron in "The Comics Journal" #277-278, Arnold and Bob were co-writers on this story. [added by Greg Fischer on 1/2/08 with permission from Michael Catron]
Reprinted in Doom Patrol Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (March 2002)

1 page public service announcement "How NOT to Enjoy a Vacation!"

Characters Mr. Green; Mrs. Green; the 2 Green children; Terry (the Greens' dog)
Synopsis Terry relates all the results of poor planning by Mr. Green on his last vacation.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Letters Ira Schnapp

5 page Doom Patrol story "Doorway to Disaster (part 2)"

Characters Doom Patrol [The Chief [Niles Caulder]; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]; Dr. Janus (villain); Hitler (picture)
Synopsis Although news reports confirm the meteorite story, the Chief sends the Doom Patrol to the crash site, Logan City, Arizona, to investigate. The Chief discovers that Dr. Janus is an escaped Nazi war criminal, just before more strange beasts appear.
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake; Bob Haney
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Notes Based on an interview with Bob Haney by Michael Catron in "The Comics Journal" #277-278, Arnold and Bob were co-writers on this story. [added by Greg Fischer on 1/2/08 with permission from Michael Catron]
Reprinted in Doom Patrol Archives, The (DC, 2002 series) #1 (March 2002)

8 page story "Listen, World...I'm the Missing Link"

Genre Adventure
Pencils Alex Toth (signed)
Inks Alex Toth (signed)