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The Doom Patrol That Wasn't, By Scott Lobdell And Ilias Kyriazis
The Doom Patrol That Wasn't, By Scott Lobdell And Ilias Kyriazis
From a pitch for Doom Patrol that never got picked up, by Scott Lobdell and Ilias Kyriazis…
The team would deal with secret "end-of-the-world" situations (because "DOOM patrol"). They'd routinely save the Earth but would receive no apperiation nor respect since no one would know about it. They'd be based in Las Vegas and would be led by Changeling (with the help of Robotman who has been reduced to toy size and is worn around his teammate's neck).
Joining them is Sprout, aka Tefe Holland, the Swamp Thing's daughter. (Mind you, that's before the Vertigo Universe had rejoined DCU). Platinum from Metal Men, trying to be her own woman. She would adopt the team's unofficial colors, red and white. Bizzaro would also join the DP but now that he's a superhero he'd have a superhero identity. "THIS AM A JOB FOR CLARK KENT!" Zatarra would form a strong bromance with Changeling and he'd the driving force in this team's formation. And finally a time displaced Madame.44 (Yeah I had to google her too). She has no powers whatsoever but she'd earn her place in the team.
And put three of them together and you get…
The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 in 1963 and was created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney, and Bruno Premiani, months before a similar concept for Marvel's X-Men. The original team included the Chief (Niles Caulder), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr), and Negative Man (Larry Trainor). While Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) and Mento (Steve Dayton) joined soon after. The team remained the featured characters of My Greatest Adventure, which was re-titled Doom Patrol as of issue #86 in 1964. Since then, there have been six Doom Patrol series, with Robotman as the only character to appear in all of them.
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