DC had a lot of success with a very similar X-Men revival formula with the Teen Titans, but they still had a concept that even closer to the X-Men in the Doom Patrol. They were soon the biggest selling title in comics, period. In another coincidence, the revival issues of Uncanny X-Men and Showcase featuring the Doom Patrol were both issue #94.īut as the 1980s rolled around, the X-Men family of titles got even more successful at Marvel. The new DP ran in Showcase for several issues, but apparently sales weren’t strong enough for them to get their own series. Much like Marvel did, DC kept one signature character from the old team-in this instance Robotman-and replaced the rest with a group of new, international heroes. DC obviously took notice of this, and decided to revive the Doom Patrol in 1977 for a similar reboot under the auspices of writer Paul Kupperberg. Of course, the X-Men famously got a revival in 1975, and eventually became a sensation. Both titles were assumed to become mere footnotes in both publisher’s histories. About a year later, Marvel’s X-Men suffered the same fate, for similar low sales reasons, although in this case the team wasn’t killed off. A turn of events that was pretty dark for a superhero comic in the ’60s.
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The series was canceled with issue #121 in 1968, with the entire team sacrificing themselves to save a small village. The series ran for about five years, but never really caught on in the way other DC titles like Justice League of America did. This one issue was popular enough that My Greatest Adventure was renamed Doom Patrol in just a few months’ time. Having saved their lives from the threat of their own powers, the Chief trained them to be a superhero team that helped the same “normal” humans who shunned them. The main team consisted of Cliff Steele (Robotman), Larry Trainor (Negative Man), and Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl). “the Chief,” gathered three freakish and deformed super-powered individuals to his mansion. Brilliant scientist Niles Caulder, a.k.a.
That first appearance introduced the whole concept of the team, who were created by Bob Haney and Bruno Premiani. My Greatest Adventure was a DC anthology title, which debuted the group in issue #80, covered dated June 1963. But it took decades for the Patrol to get out of the X-Men’s shadow. It was this version, initially written by superstar writer Grant Morrison, that the current DC Universe/HBO Max series is primarily based on. It was only when DC Comics totally broke with the X-Men style that the concept of the Doom Patrol really started to flourish again, and became a true fan-favorite all its own. But while the X-Men eventually became a global phenomenon, Doom Patrol continued to look like a copycat to those who didn’t know better. The Patrol fought the Brotherhood of Evil, while the X-Men’s arch enemies were the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Even their biggest adversaries had nearly identical names. Nevertheless, the two comics shared a parallel history for a long time. Despite one team being called “the world’s strangest heroes” and the other “the strangest super-heroes of all,” the two comics’ similarities probably really are just a big coincidence.
Given the lead time it takes to make comics-back then, about three months-it would have been an extremely rushed production time. So, did Stan Lee and Jack Kirby rip off DC’s strange heroes with the X-Men? No one knows for sure, but probably not.
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DC’s heroes debuted a full three months prior to X-Men #1 in 1963.
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