The end of the Silver Age Doom Patrol, and the brief return of the Bronze Age version, are featured in the ominously-titled DC Finest: The Death of Doom Patrol.
The Death of the Doom Patrol collects The Doom Patrol #103-121, Showcase #94-96, and the Doom Patrol appearances/stories from Superman Family #191-193.
Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani guide the Doom Patrol to their inevitable end in their original series, facing some odd-ball and trippy villains such as The Meteor Man, Mr. 103, Dr. Death, The Brotherhood of Evil, Gargaux, Mandred the Executioner, Zarox-13: Emperor of the Cosmos, the Brain, the Arsenal, Kor–the Conqueror, the Mutant Master, the Galactic Gladiator, the Black Vulture, Videx: Monarch of Light, and the Wrecker along the way.
Paul Kupperberg, Joe Stanton, Frank Chiaramonte, and Bruce Patterson, bring the team back for a brief stint in the Bronze Age, before their return in 1987, also penned by Kupperberg (before getting really strange with the start of Grant Morrison’s run in issue #19 in 1989).
The first part of Drake and Premiani’s run was collected last February in the DC Finest: Doom Patrol: World’s Strangest Heroes collection.
DC Finest: Doom Patrol: The Death of Doom Patrol consists of 576 pages for a suggested retail price of $39.99.
Check out the cover by Joe Orlando below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your Silver and Bronze Age comic news.
The cover image is by Joe Orlando – not Bruno Premiani.
Good catch. Thanks!