It was 1963, and amid the ever-growing number of super-hero titles that had been proliferating on spinner racks across the country a very different comic appeared, featuring a group of misfit loners cursed by fate with special powers and gathered together by a mysterious wheelchair-bound mentor to defend their very persecutors ... That book was, of course, The X-Men, published by Marvel Comics. But what concerns us here is a title of exactly the same description that was published by DC Comics three months earlier: The Doom Patrol!… (more)