Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Doom Patrol Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: April 8, 2009 Direct Market Date April 8, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Direct Market Date April 8, 2009
Source: Previews, #244

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "I, Kranus, Robot Emperor"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
Doom Patrol #101 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Chief (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Robotman (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Elasti-Girl (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Negative Man (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)

Supporting Character(s)

• Beast Boy (last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Doom Patrol #102)

Villain(s)

• Kranus (a robot; revealed as a robotic body inhabited by the Brain; no further appearances)
• Brain (last appearance in Doom Patrol #97; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #65)
• Nicholas Galtry (first name revealed; last appearance in Doom Patrol #100; next appearance in Doom Patrol #105)
• Mr. Z (a professional hit man; next appearance in Doom Patrol #106)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Challengers of the Unknown (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Ace Morgan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Red Ryan (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Rocky Davis (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)
• Prof. Haley (last appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48; next appearance in Challengers of the Unknown #48)

Other Character(s)

• Edwards (Nicholas Galtry's stockbroker; next appearance in Doom Patrol #105)
• Other stockbrokers of the firm of Smith and Edwards (no further appearances)

Comments:
Part 2: "What Makes Kranus Run?"

This story continues in part in Challengers of the Unknown #48, in which the Doom Patrol teams up with the Challengers immediately following this story.

The Challengers of the Unknown appearance in this story is concurrent with page 16 of Challengers of the Unknown #48.

Synopsis:
Galtry, unaware of Gar Logan's identity as Beast Boy and secretly embezzling money from his inheritance, hires a hit-man to do away with the youngster. Discovering this, Beast Boy goes to the Doom Patrol for help and arrives just in time to join their mission to a remote island from which mysterious signals have been detected. There, they battle a supposed extraterrestrial robot despot called Kranus. Kranus is exposed as the Brain, leader of the Brotherhood of Evil, inhabiting a robotic disguise and manages to escape.

Back home, Galtry's hired killer changes his plans at the last moment, causing the Doom Patrol to disbelieve Beast Boy's story of an assassination plot against him. The Doom Patrol returns to headquarters only to receive an immediate distress call from the Challengers of the Unknown.