#10: Published before 1986
DC Finest: Doom Patrol: The Death of the Doom Patrol
Written by Arnold Drake, Paul Kupperberg, and Tom DeFalco, art by Bruno Premiani and Joe Staton
DC Comics, 576 pages
Comics orginally published from 1966-1979, collection published in 2026
978-1799506690
I'm a big Doom Patrol fan, but this collection wasn't great. The comics from the sixties start to get repetitive real fast, and the surprisingly egalitarian treatment of Rita Farr established early on in the series goes out the window when she marries that loathsome Mento character. And the 70s comics feature the new Doom Patrol with a whole new lineup aside from Robotman, which seems to completely miss the point of the Doom Patrol; superpowers as disabilities. Celsius, Tempest, and Negative Woman are just normal superheroes!
