Comic Title: Super-Team Family #8
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1976
On Sale Date: September 30, 1976 Newsstand Date September 30, 1976
Source: House Ad, Super-Team Family #8, Page 33

Newsstand Date September 30, 1976
Source: Direct Currents, Amazing World of DC Comics #12

Newsstand Date September 30, 1976
Source: Comic Reader, #135

Copyright Date September 30, 1976
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1976

Newsstand Date September 27, 1976
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 76 #21
Listed as on sale the week of September 27th

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Tony Isabella

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

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.