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: "The Terrible Secret of Negative Man"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Doom Patrol #87 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #87)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #87)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #87)
• Negative Man (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #87)
• Elasti-Girl (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #87)

Villain(s)

• Brotherhood of Evil (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #90)
• Brain (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #90)
• Monsieur Mallah (last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #90)
• Madame Rouge (disguised as Gabrielle Soullet, daughter of the late scientist, Prof. Soullet, in this story; last appearance in Doom Patrol #86; next appearance in Doom Patrol #90)
• Giacomo (a midget member of the Brotherhood of Evil; no further appearances)
• Mechanical soldiers (created by the Brain; destroyed in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An air traffic controller, newspaper reporters, and two Federal Reserve Bank guards (no further appearances)
• Dan Salem (last appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81; next appearance in Doom Patrol #94)

Comments:
Part 2: "The Toys of Terror"

Details of Negative Man's radioactive condition are revealed in this story.

Synopsis:
After the Doom Patrol saves her plane from crashing, Gabrielle Soullet, secretly Madame Rouge in disguise, appears to trick Negative Man into helping her steal plans for a device that can expand matter. Actually, he and the Chief are aware of this ruse by the Brotherhood of Evil and are luring them into a trap, but their plan backfires when a jealous Elasti-Girl mistakenly intervenes. The Brotherhood uses the expanding ray to rob the Federal Reserve Bank by enlarging toy tanks and soldiers into a life-size armed task force. Only Negative Man can stop them by removing his special bandages and jamming the Brain's controlling radio-waves with his own radioactivity. The expanding process proves defective and the enlarged weapons eventually disintegrate. Madame Rouge and Giacomo the midget are captured by the Doom Patrol, but Mallah and the Brain escape.