Comic Title: Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2004
On Sale Date: March 10, 2004 Direct Market Date March 31, 2004
Source: Previews, Vol. 14 #1 (#181)

Direct Market Date March 10, 2004
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Direct Market Date March 31, 2004
Source: Comic Shop News, #870

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Day the World Went Mad"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Doom Patrol (of Earth-1)

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Doom Patrol #96 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #95; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #95; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #95; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Elasti-Girl (last appearance in Doom Patrol #95; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Negative Man (last appearance in Doom Patrol #95; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)

Villain(s)

• General Immortus (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Garguax (last appearance in Doom Patrol #91; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Brotherhood of Evil (last appearance in Doom Patrol #93; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Brain (last appearance in Doom Patrol #93; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)
• Madame Rouge (disguised as Nao Tsi; last appearance in Doom Patrol #93; next appearance in Doom Patrol #97)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Friedrich Kleinmann, Balu Sutra, and Richard Morgan (a scientific genius, an East Indian United Nations delegate, and a movie actor; no further appearances)
• Bertha, Schultzie, and a group of children (Dr. Kleinmann's housekeeper, his dog, and neighbors; no further appearances)
• Newspaper reporters, United Nations delegates and guards (no further appearances)
• The cast and crew of a war movie (no further appearances)
• Dr. Duroff (super-intendent of a private sanitarium; no further appearances)
• The Cobra (a powerful industrial-financial cartel headed by the Coo, Bung, and Rann families; no further appearances)
• Nao Tsi, the inhabitants of Tajali, Mr. Stanhope, Dodge and Leroy, Mr. Pyke, Sears, and McConnell (head of the Cooo family, an Oriental nation, president of the Cobra Jukebox Co., electronics experts, a division head, his aide, and a weapons designer; no further appearances)
• The mayor, police commissioner, and citizens of Midville (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Three Families of Fear"
Part 3: "Whom the Gods Would Destroy"

The alliance between General Immortus, Garguax, and the Brotherhood of Evil begins in this story.

This story continues in Doom Patrol #97.

Synopsis:
When several famous men unaccountably go insane and try to murder their associates, the Doom Patrol investigates and discovers each to have been in possession of a key-chain charm resembling an Oriental idol. Travelling to Tajali where the real idol is located, they are abducted by the powerful Cobra financial cartel, whose members offer their aid in unravelling the mystery. Before any progress can be made, though, the Doom Patrol is forced to return to theUnited States, where more victims of the unexplained madness are causing rampant destruction.

The Chief traces the cause of the insanity, which seems to strike mainly against the Cobra syndicate , to a rival cartel whose head proves to be General Immortus. Invading his corporate headquarters, the Doom Patrol discovers Immortus to be allied in a master scheme for world takeover with the alien Garguax, who has established a secret base on the moon, and with the Brotherhood of Evil. Escaping a death-trap of the Brotherhood, the heroes battle maddened mobs in New York, also victims of the madness-inducing mind-ray being beamed at them from the villains' moon-base, and foil their plan to drive the whole world insane.