Comic Title: Doom Patrol:The Silver Age Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: July 25, 2018 Direct Market Date July 25, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Direct Market Date July 25, 2018
Source: Previews, #355

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 376
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Menace"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Doom Patrol #89 (1964)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #89)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #90)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #89)
• Elasti-Girl (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #89)
• Negative Man (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #89)

Villain(s)

• Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man (Dr. Sven Larsen; a Swedish biologist and former student of Dr. Niles Caulder; next appearance in Doom Patrol #95)

Comments:
Part 2: "Lure of the Changing Nightmare"

Elasti-Girl and Negative Man get new red-and-white uniforms in this story.

Synopsis:
Biologist Sven Larsen seemingly becomes a victim of one of his own experiments when he is transformed inot a being capable of taking on any animal, vegetable, or mineral form. After a battle with the Doom Patrol, however, the Chief deduces that Larsen's transformation was deliberate and that by killing the Doom Patrol he seeks revenge on the Chief, whom he wrongly believes once stole an invention of his. Ironically, the device in question proves to be the sole means of stopping the Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man by "freezing" him in a single transmuted form until he can be captured and returned to normal.