As corny as the story is I actually liked it. This is the first 10 issues of Arnold Drake's Doom Patrol dating from June 1963-August 1964. If you know anything of comic book history then you will pick up the similarities with another famous silver age comic, X-Men, who oddly started the same exact time. Both have superheroes who are seen by the public as "freaks", both have a male leader in a wheelchair, and both have the main villain teem starting with the word "brotherhood". I've read Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol before and this was similar but less of a LSD trip. Overall, I enjoyed Drake's storytelling and Bruno Premiani's artwork. ( )

The Doom Patrol and the X-Men. Two "weird" teams of outsiders, treated differently by society for their powers, and led by wheel chair bound brainiacs. Both books came out around the same time, both failed to take off and were cancelled. But while the X-Men went on to become a global phenomina, The Doom Patrol are still kind of a cult fans favorite. I say it is a travesty that "Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man" is not as big a name as "Magneto".