Comic Title: Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2002
On Sale Date: March 6, 2002 Direct Market Date March 20, 2002
Source: Previews, Vol. 12 #1 (#157)

Direct Market Date March 6, 2002
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 6, 2002

Direct Market Date March 6, 2002
Source: Comic Shop News, #766

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

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.