Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Doom Patrol Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: April 8, 2009 Direct Market Date April 8, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Direct Market Date April 8, 2009
Source: Previews, #244

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Three Against the Earth"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
My Greatest Adventure #82 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #83)
• Chief (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #83)
• Robotman (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #83)
• Elasti-Girl (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #83)
• Negative Man (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #83)

Villain(s)

• Monsieur Duvoir, Senator Durham, and Dr. Savatini (a financial genius, a U.S. Senator, and chairman of the International Science Foundation; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Roy Jamison (publisher of a large newspaper; no further appearances)
• Tim Logan (a newspaper editor; no further appearances)
• Danowic (an old watchmaker; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Dr. Enrico Fermi (famous early nuclear physicist; as a character in the Chief’s false origin story)
• Vola, his father, and other members of their race (as characters in the Chief’s false origin story)

Comments:
Chap. 2: "The Conspiracy of the Green-Headed League"

Elasti-Girl is called Elasti-Woman in this story.

The Chief’s physical appearance, but not his true identity, is revealed to the public in this story.

Synopsis:
When a newspaper publisher’s revelation of the Chief’s true identity causes the Doom Patrol to suspect a traitor in their midst, the Chief "feeds" each member a different and false version of his origins, in order to unmask the culprit. Actually, the "leak" is due to a spy camera secretly planted on Elasti-Girl, but the public disclosure of the Chief as a supposed extraterrestrial serves to draw out of hiding a trio of actual alien agents bent on world takeover who seek the Chief as an ally. Through trickery, the Doom Patrol defeats the aliens and stops their invasion plans.