Comic Title: Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 4 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: February 13, 2008 Direct Market Date February 27, 2008
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #10 (#226)

Direct Market Date February 13, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 224
Editor: Scott Nybakken

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Private World of Negative Man"
Pages: 8

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Doom Patrol #106 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (no appearance)
• Negative Man (earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Doom Patrol #107)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in Doom Patrol #100)

Other Character(s)

• Military officials and pilots of a special project (no further appearances)
• Dr. Vaughn and other radiologists (no further appearances)
• Mrs. Trainor (Larry's mother; next appearance in Doom Patrol #107)
• A police officer and an unnamed girl (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is entirely a flashback Negative Man's origin.

This story continues in the second story of Doom Patrol #107.

Synopsis:
In this retelling of Negative Man's origin, Larry Trainor flies an experimental aircraft through a high-altitude radiation belt, with the result that he becomes dangerously radioactive and gains the ability to separate an eerie radio-energy duplicate with fantastic powers from his body for sixty seconds at a tim. Dr. Niles Caulder saves Larry from a life in a lead-lined isolation cell when he invents a special bandage which is radiation-proof. Covered in these bandages from head-to-toe, Larry is able to walk the streets once more without poisoning anyone who touches him, but as a "walking mummy" he finds he is still a "freak" to normal people.