Comic Title: Doom Patrol #4
Publisher: DC
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: January 1988
On Sale Date: September 29, 1987 Shipping Date September 29, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #44

Shipping Date September 29, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #126

Newsstand Date October 20, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #126

Copyright Date September 29, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Gold

Title: "Trouble in Kansas City"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Doom Patrol (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Paul Kupperberg
Penciller: Steve Lightle
Inker: Gary Martin
Letterer: Janice Chiang
Colorist: Michele Wolfman

Reprinted In:
Doom Patrol:The Bronze Age Omnibus HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Celsius (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Negative Woman (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #4; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Tempest (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Lodestone (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)
• Karma (Wayne Hawkins; code name not used in this story; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Negative Man (last appearance in Doom Patrol #3; next appearance in Doom Patrol #5)

Other Character(s)

• A team of construction workers (no further appearances)
• A sales clerk, a mall security guard, and several shoppers (no further appearances)
• Rhea's mother and father (both die in flashback; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Robotman discovers that Arani Caulder has sold the Doom Patrol headquarters in Midway City. Her new team is based out of Kansas City. She begins training Rhea Jones to test the limits of the young girl's powers. Negative Woman and Tempest assist. When the alarm sounds in the early morning, Rhea and Josh respond to an intruder. Wayne Hawkins, who possesses a power that causes trouble for those around him, enters and announces that he was invited by Arani.