by Paul Kupperberg: #1-18, Annual 1, & Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad Special (Oct 1987 – Jan 1989).Bronze Age: The “New” team as Guest Stars (1977 – 1987).Silver & Bronze Age Doom Patrol (1963 – 1987).Since then, DC has wrestled the team back into the superhero world several times, but it always clicks the best when they allow it to sit just outside the borders of their mainstream continuity – as it did when it was revived by Gerard Way for his Young Animal imprint in 2016. Morrison’s run was followed by much-beloved run by Rachel Pollack. They’re part Fantastic Four super-science, part X-Men misfits assembled by a brainy benefactor, but still something entirely their own.ĭespite being a Silver Age creation, this title will always be associated with Grant Morrison, who had one of their many early star-making turns with the Patrol as they pivoted from the fringes of DC’s superhero universe into the realm of their Vertigo line in the early 90s. The Doom Patrol is DC’s weirdest team of all. Last updated March 2023 with titles scheduled for release through June 2023. Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics.

He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.The definitive issue-by-issue collecting guide and trade reading order for DC’s Doom Patrol comic books in omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback collections. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a 'counterculture' spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician.

In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.

Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL.

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