Comic Title: Doom Patrol #25
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Imprint: Vertigo
Cover Date: August 1989
On Sale Date: June 27, 1989 Shipping Date June 27, 1989
Source: Previews, #4

Shipping Date June 27, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #167

Direct Market Date June 29, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #102, #104

Copyright Date June 27, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $1.50
Page Count: 32
Editor: Robert Greenberger

Title: "Imaginary Friends"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Grant Morrison
Penciller: Doug C. Braithwaite
Inker: Scott Hanna
Letterer: John E. Workman, Jr.
Colorist: Daniel Vozzo

Reprinted In:
Doom Patrol:Crawling From the Wreckage TPB (1992)
Doom Patrol:Crawling From the Wreckage TPB [Variant] (2004)
Doom Patrol Omnibus HC (2014)
Doom Patrol Book One TPB (2016)
DC Through the '80s:The Experiments HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #24; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #23; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)

Supporting Character(s)

• Dorothy Spinner (last appearance in Doom Patrol #23; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• Joshua Clay (last appearance in Doom Patrol #23; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)

Villain(s)

• Several imaginary beings (no further appearances)
• Brotherhood of Dada (called the Brotherhood of Evil in this story; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• Mr. Nobody (last appearance in Doom Patrol #24; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• Lloyd Jefferson (last appearance in Doom Patrol #24; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• Byron Shelley (only last name revealed; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)
• The Quiz (not named in this story; next appearance in Doom Patrol #26)

Synopsis:
While the Doom Patrol is away, the Chief asks Joshua Clay to search the trophy room of the old Justice League headquarters for the materioptikon which once belonged to Doctor Destiny. Later, Dorothy Spinner tells Joshua that she was taught by her imaginary friends who now come to life to threaten them both. Joshua realizes that the materioptikon is causing Dorothy's fantasies to be brought to life. He smashes the machine which ends the nightmare.

Elsewhere Mr. Nobody begins forming a new Brotherhood of Evil.