Comic Title: Doom Patrol #13
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: June 28, 1988 Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 23, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date June 28, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Power and Chaos"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Doom Patrol (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Erik J. Larsen
Inker: Alan Gordon
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Michele Wolfman

Reprinted In:
Doom Patrol:The Bronze Age Omnibus HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Celsius (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Tempest (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Negative Woman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Lodestone (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Scott Fischer (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)
• Karma (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; no further appearances)

Guest Star(s)

• Power Girl (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #77; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)

Supporting Character(s)

• Larry Trainor (last appearance in Doom Patrol #12; next appearance in Doom Patrol Annual #1)

Villain(s)

• Pythia (an agent of the Lords of Chaos; next appearance in Doom Patrol #14)

Other Character(s)

• Mitchell (last appearance in Doom Patrol #8; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in Doom Patrol #14.

Synopsis:
The Doom Patrol recover from their battle with Garguax. Cliff gets a new body, and Val explains her sudden recovery. Then the police arrive to arrest Wayne as a murder suspect. He flees from the house, and his powers prevent the others from apprehending him. Next Larry Trainor shows up, cured of his condition. Val deduces that he was responsible for sending Reactron to steal the negative being. She then gives him a beating.

The team is then shocked when Power Girl falls through their ceiling after losing a fight with a woman named Pythia.