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| rdfs:label | - Secret Origins Annual Vol 2 1
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| Trivia | - * This comic book includes advertisements for the following products:
:—M&M chocolate candy
:—MPC - racecar model kits
:—Cox Hobbies - SB-X stealth bomber model kit
:—Tang - orange flavored fruit drink
:—Oxy facial cleanser products
:—DC Comics - Wild Dog limited series debut
:—Rain-Blo bubble gum
:—DC Comics - Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters limited series
:—DC Comics comic book subscription service
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| Letterer1 | - Albert DeGuzman
- Jean Simek
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| Inker1 | - John Byrne
- Bruce D. Patterson
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| Recommended | - * Strange Adventures #9
* Strange Adventures #10
- For Captain Comet
- For Doom Patrol
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| Inker1 | - John Byrne
- Bruce D. Patterson
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| Writer1 | - Paul Kupperberg
- Roy Thomas
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| Colourist1 | - Gene D'Angelo
- Carl Gafford
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| Writer1 | - Paul Kupperberg
- Roy Thomas
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| StoryTitle | - The Secret Origin of Captain Comet
- The Secret Origin of the Doom Patrol!
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* Waldo
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* The X-19
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* The Cometeer
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* Harun
Other Characters:
* Betty
* Jonathan Blake
* Martha Blake
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| Letterer1 | - Albert DeGuzman
- Jean Simek
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| Colourist1 | - Gene D'Angelo
- Carl Gafford
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| Links | - * Secret Origins Annual #1 entry at the Grand Comics Database
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| Synopsis | - 3.15576E12
- For the first time in over two years, Cliff Steele – the Robotman, returns to the old Midway City headquarters of the Doom Patrol. As he enters the two-story brownstone, the mansions' security systems interrogate him at length in order to determine his identity. Cliff answers a series of questions and relates the origin of the original Doom Patrol members.
Flashback
The Chief===
The founder of the Doom Patrol was Dr. Niles Caulder. Caulder was a brilliant scientist who had been hired to develop a serum to increase a person's life span indefinitely. While working on the project, Caulder discovered that his mysterious benefactor was actually a villain named General Immortus. Caulder betrayed Immortus and as a result, the aging criminal attacked Caulder crippling him. Fearing that Immortus would never stop until he was dead, he decided to form a team of heroic misfits to fight Immortus. This team became the first incarnation of the Doom Patrol.
Elasti-Girl
Rita Farr was a glamorous Hollywood actress. She was also an accomplished stuntwoman and Olympic level swimmer. During filming of one of her movies, Rita exposed herself to volcanic island gases that changed her body chemistry granting her the ability to alter her size at will. Rita joined the Doom Patrol as Elasti-Girl
Negative Man
Larry Trainor was a civilian test pilot who had been hired to fly an experimental orbital fighter jet into the upper atmosphere. While piloting the jet, Larry was exposed to intense solar flare radiation. The radiation bonded Larry's body to a disembodied energy form known as the Negative Man. Caulder discovered Trainor and invited him to become a founding member of the Doom Patrol.
The Doom Patrol routinely fought a strange amalgamation of villains including the Brotherhood of Evil, the alien Garguax, the bizarre Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, and Caulder's nemesis – General Immortus. The Doom Patrol met their end at the hands of another foe named Captain Zahl. Zahl trapped the heroes on a small island where he blackmailed them into sacrificing their own lives to save the lives of fourteen people in a small New England fishing village.
The new team
Months after the destruction of the original Doom Patrol, Dr. Will Magnus – creator of the Metal Men, discovered Cliff Steele’s robotic remains. He designed a new body for him, and set him off to investigate rumors of a new Doom Patrol team.
Celsius
Arani Caulder claimed that she was the wife of the late Niles Caulder. Years before the formation of the Doom Patrol, Niles traveled to Calcutta, India where he met the sickly Arani. He saved her life by giving her a sample of the Immortality Elixir he had developed for General Immortus. The elixir saved Caulder’s life and stimulated her latent metahuman super powers. Arani learned that the Chief had died and sought to put together a new Doom Patrol in order to investigate the nature of his death.
Tempest
Joshua Clay was a troublesome young man from Midway City. When he was eighteen-years-old, he enlisted in the Army medical corps and served during the Vietnam War. The horrors of war helped to prompt the release of his own metahuman powers and Josh soon joined the new Doom Patrol as Tempest.
Negative Woman
Valentina Vostok was a Russian pilot, who had defected from the USSR aboard an experimental fighter jet. Her plane crashed down into the ocean near the same region where the first Doom Patrol had died. The energy being that once bonded to Larry Trainor freed itself and bonded with Valentina turning her into a Negative Woman.
End flashback
Robotman continues to provide a detailed dossier on the Doom Patrol's history. Suddenly, government agents burst into the house and try to arrest him. Robotman easily tosses them aside and vacates the house. He learns that his old teammate, Valentina, is now working with the Federal government and has been monitoring his actions since first setting foot inside the old DP headquarters.
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| Notes | - * Doom Patrol last appeared in Supergirl Vol. 2 #9
* The main story from this issue leads into Doom Patrol Vol. 2 #1.
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| quotation | - It was the midget, wasn't it?! He did this t'me... he should'a let me die, but he made me into a freak! Where is he... I'm gonna kill him!
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