Doom Patrol #109 (DC)
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The Doom Patrol were certainly one of the weirdest teams in DC comics history consisting of Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man and in this issue Mento plus a very young Gar Logan or Beast Boy as we would come to know him in the Teen Titans. There's also The Chief, a wheel-bound genius who brings the team together to fight some of the quite weird villains and threats to the world.
One of the problems with the Doom Patrol was they were always either about to or actually dead of sorts in a number of stories until their final shocking ending (for the time when they actually did sacrifice themselves to save innocents.
In this issue the team are near death and the Chief is trying to find a cure but the weapon that seemingly ended the heroes lives was set at half-power. Someone had sabotaged the gun used by the Brotherhood of evil. But who and why?
Hiding their death from the villains they prepare a false funeral and allow the Brotherhood into a trap except the buggers sen Mandred the Executioner. As you do. The Chief and young Beastie Boy are in trouble but Negative Man goes to investigate...
They defeat Mandred but the story ends there until the next issue and we are entreated to a second feature, a solo tale of the Negative Man in Flight of Fear. An average tale that one might expect in one of those "mystery" books popular in those days.
I love these characters and the stories are a great read. Recommended.
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