Comic Title: Doom Patrol #106
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1966
On Sale Date: July 21, 1966 Newsstand Date July 21, 1966
Source: Direct Currents, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #96, Page 29

Copyright Date July 21, 1966
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1966

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., April, July and Oct.
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Murray Boltinoff

Title: "The Private World of Negative Man"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted In:
Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 4 HC (2008)
Showcase Presents the Doom Patrol Vol. 2 TPB (2010)
Doom Patrol:The Silver Age Omnibus HC (2017)
Doom Patrol:The Silver Age Vol. 2 TPB (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (no appearance)
• Negative Man (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Doom Patrol #107)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #100)

Other Character(s)

• Military officials and pilots of a special project (no further appearances)
• Dr. Vaughn and other radiologists (no further appearances)
• Mrs. Trainor (Larry's mother; next appearance in Doom Patrol #107)
• A police officer and an unnamed girl (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is entirely a flashback Negative Man's origin.

This story continues in the second story of Doom Patrol #107.

Synopsis:
In this retelling of Negative Man's origin, Larry Trainor flies an experimental aircraft through a high-altitude radiation belt, with the result that he becomes dangerously radioactive and gains the ability to separate an eerie radio-energy duplicate with fantastic powers from his body for sixty seconds at a tim. Dr. Niles Caulder saves Larry from a life in a lead-lined isolation cell when he invents a special bandage which is radiation-proof. Covered in these bandages from head-to-toe, Larry is able to walk the streets once more without poisoning anyone who touches him, but as a "walking mummy" he finds he is still a "freak" to normal people.