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The Doom Patrol is a superhero team that appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The Doom Patrol was created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney and artist Bruno Premiani, and first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963). Advertised as "The World's Strangest Heroes", the Doom Patrol is a group of super-powered misfits whose powers, gained through freak accidents, cause them alienation and trauma. The Doom Patrol protects the world from threats such as the Brotherhood of Evil, Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and Mr. Nobody. There have been numerous Doom Patrol rosters in the DC Universe, with the original consisting of the Chief, Robotman, Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, Beast Boy, and Mento. Members of later rosters include Crazy Jane, Danny the Street, Dorothy Spinner, Elongated Man, and Ambush Bug; Robotman is the only character who has appeared in every Doom Patrol incarnation.
When DC decided to convert My Greatest Adventure, an adventure anthology in danger of cancellation, to a superhero format, it assigned Drake to create a team that could fit both genres. The series was retitled The Doom Patrol and continued for five more years, until its cancellation in 1968. Paul Kupperberg revived the Doom Patrol for Showcase in 1977 and relaunched Doom Patrol in 1987. In response to poor sales, Kupperberg was replaced by Grant Morrison in hopes of salvaging the comic. Morrison's Doom Patrol run garnered widespread acclaim for its surreal take on the superhero genre, featuring outlandish villains, dark humor, and frequent parody. In 1993, Doom Patrol became one of the inaugural comics of Vertigo, DC's imprint for mature readers; Rachel Pollack continued the series in a similar vein to Morrison until its cancellation in 1995.
Various attempts to resurrect the Doom Patrol were made following the conclusion of the 1987 comic. The team returned to the main DC imprint in 2001 with a new series written by John Arcudi, which lasted for 22 issues. A 2004 reboot by John Byrne proved controversial and was reversed by DC's Infinite Crisis (2005–2006) crossover event, while Keith Giffen wrote another series from 2009 to 2011. In 2016, My Chemical Romance co-founder and singer Gerard Way revived Doom Patrol as the flagship comic of DC's Young Animal, an imprint focusing on relaunching characters and settings from the DC Universe in stories for mature readers.
The Doom Patrol has appeared in various DC Comics adaptations, making their first appearance outside comics in the fifth season of the animated series Teen Titans in 2005. A live-action Doom Patrol series premiered on the DC Universe streaming service in 2019, before moving to HBO Max in 2020; the series received critical acclaim and won several accolades.