Comic Title: DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #19
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1982
On Sale Date: December 3, 1981 Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Comic Reader, #197

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #61

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Comics Journal, #69

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Amazing Heroes, #7

Copyright Date November 10, 1981
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1981
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date November 10, 1981
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #61

Cover Price: $0.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Karen Berger

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Doom Patrol"
Pages: 25

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

Writer: Arnold Drake
Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Bruno Premiani

Reprinted From:
My Greatest Adventure #80 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Doom Patrol (origin revealed; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)
• Chief (Dr. Niles Caulder; first appearance; last appearance in Doom Patrol #105; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)
• Robotman (Cliff Steele; name rendered Robot Man in this story and also called Automaton on the cover of this issue; first appearance; origin revealed; last appearance in Doom Patrol #105; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)
• Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr; origin and first appearance; last appearance in Doom Patrol #105; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)
• Negative Man (Larry Trainor; name rendered Negative-Man on the cover of this issue; first appearance; origin revealed; last appearance in Doom Patrol #105; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)

Villain(s)

• General Immortus (an immortal criminal mastermind; first appearance; last appearance in Doom Patrol #88; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #84)
• Two unnamed henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mitch (a movie director; no further appearances)
• The cast and crew of a motion picture (no further appearances)
• Dan Salem (a TV newscaster; not named in this story; first appearance; last appearance in Doom Patrol #105; next appearance in My Greatest Adventure #81)
• Dr. Leroy and Dr. Haskins (surgeons; not named in this story; next appearance in Doom Patrol #100)

Comments:
Chap. 2: "The Challenge of the Timeless Commander"
Chap. 3: "The Deadly Duel with Gen. Immortus"

Elasti-Girl and Negative Man get green Doom Patrol uniforms in this story.

The text page includes biographical information on Bruno Premiani and Arnold Drake.

Synopsis:
A mysterious, red-bearded, wheelchair-bound scientific genius calling himself the Chief brings together three people branded as "freaks" by normal society.

Rita Farr, movie actress and former Olympic swimmer, gains the power to shrink, stretch, or expand her body to giant size at will after she is swept down a jungle river and breathes strange volcanic vapors. Larry Trainor, test pilot, becomes dangerously radioactive and able to separate a weird being of radio-energy from his body when he flies an experimental sub-orbital craft through a radiation belt. Cliff Steele, world-famous daredevil, awakens to find his human brain transplanted into a robot body after his real body is totally destroyed in a racing-car crash.

As Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and Robotman, the trio become a team of heroes, the Doom Patrol, under the Chief’s leadership. In one of their first joint efforts, they battle General Immortus, a seemingly immortal mastermind and an old foe of the Chief’s, for possession of a super-weapon contained in a crash-landed alien drone spaceship. The team succeeds in its mission, but General Immortus is apparently killed in the explosion of the alien craft.