There is a new costumed criminal in town: Doctor Tyme, a clock-themed villain who has perfected a beam which can freeze, slow down or speed up time according to his whims. He uses this power to rob an airplane–a daring mystery that attracts the attention of the Doom Patrol.
Welcome everyone to another strange week of Doom Patrol Club! This week we’ll delve into Issues #92- 97 and reading more into the history of Doom Patrol!
I’m really committed to reading along and commenting as you post these. But wow am I way behind. I’ve got one more to read of the first batch.
I got to keep at it and I will catch up in the next week one way or the other is my plan. I own a selection of these 60’s issues and they’re very special to me.
So, is that Clock King? I kinda dig his gear teeth.
First, I want to call baloney on the baby crawling into the safe. There’s no way the baby gets up in there and crawls in. I think mom did it. But that’s just me.
I did not know the original Doom Patrol series was this good. I had enjoyed the My Greatest Adventures issues. They were fun, quirky and fast. Now that Haney is well into the run, these are genuinely great stories. I’m particularly impressed by the long game he has played, weaving the Patrol’s biggest villains Garguax, General Immortus, and the Brotherhood of Evil into a single overriding threat. Two of these, the General and Brotherhood, appear unlike other villains you’d find from the time. Immortus is your average Ratsi general, except of course his 2,000 years old and is always grinning like a loon.
The Brotherhood is led by your average yelling, pontificating would be world conquerer, but of course he’s a brain in a jar. His best mates are a talking gorilla and an evil private school mistress.
Garguax is the most generic alien menace, but I’m not sure that’s not supposed to be the joke.
Then we get the tale of egomaniac Steve Dayton, who never tires of reminding us that he’s the 5th richest man in the world. I love that in the end it’s Rita who keeps him out of the Patrol.
re the team conflict, it’s mind boggling how Doom Patrol and the Fantastic Four were doing the same thing at the same time. I think Stan Lee’s on record as saying he was recreating the team dynamic of Doc Savage pulps, so it makes me really wish we knew what influenced Drake/Haney.
Same here, Doom Patrol in a lot of ways felt more ahead of its time. This kind of storytelling I would expect from something in the 70s or early 80s more than the 60s.
Funny you compare them to the Four, when what I’ve seen, everyone compares the DP to the X-men.
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, thanks for the thoughts on this 
Cliff lol, thanks for the expanding thoughts on this