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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published March 1982
Cover Price 0.95
Pages 100
Editing Karen Berger

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils George Perez
Inks Frank Giacoia

1 page Doom Patrol cover reprint (on interior page)

Genre Superhero
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Letters Joe Letterese
Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #80 (June 1963)

11 page Doom Patrol story "The Doom Patrol"

Characters The Chief (intro); Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr] (intro, origin); Negative Man [Larry Trainor] (intro, origin); Robotman [Cliff Steele] (intro, origin); Mitch (Movie Producer)
Synopsis A mysterious man known only as the Chief calls three people who have all escaped certain doom but were left outcasts because of their experiences. He recounts their individual stories. He asks them to become the Doom Patrol, and their first mission is to defuse a bomb.
Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake (plot); Bob Haney (script)
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Letters Stan Starkman
Notes Origin & 1st appearnace Doom Patrol. Chapter 1.
Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #80 (June 1963)

3 page Doom Patrol story "The Challenge of the Timeless Commander"

Characters The Chief; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Robotman [Cliff Steele] (all as the Doom Patrol); General Immortus (intro, villain)
Synopsis The Chief informs the Doom Patrol of an alien spaceship that has landed on Earth carrying a super-weapon. General Immortus, spying on them, makes plans. The Doom Patrol are sent to protect the spaceship but encounter a strange machine.
Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake (plot); Bob Haney (script)
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Notes Chapter 2.
Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #80 (June 1963)

8 page Doom Patrol story "The Deadly Duel with Gen. Immortus"

Characters Doom Patrol [The Chief; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]; General Immortus
Synopsis After locating the super-weapon, the Doom Patrol is confronted by General Immortus, who takes the upper-hand.
Genre Superhero
Script Arnold Drake; Bob Haney
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Notes Chapter 3.
Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #80 (June 1963)

1 page Doom Patrol illustration

Genre Superhero
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Letters Ira Schnapp
Reprinted from Doom Patrol, The (DC, 1964 series) #86 (March 1964)

17 page Doom Patrol story "The Brotherhood of Evil"

Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Letters Stan Starkman
Reprinted from Doom Patrol, The (DC, 1964 series) #86 (March 1964)

24 page Doom Patrol story "Mento--The Man Who Split the Doom Patrol"

Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Letters Stan Starkman
Notes 1 page cut
Reprinted from Doom Patrol, The (DC, 1964 series) #91 (November 1964)

25 page Doom Patrol story "The Enemy Within the Doom Patrol"

Genre superhero
Script Arnold Drake
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani
Letters Stan Starkman
Reprinted from Doom Patrol, The (DC, 1964 series) #90 (September 1964)