Doom Patrol #6 [Direct]
(March 1988)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-11-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Printer
Printed in U.S.A.
Editing
Robert Greenberger (credited) (editor); Mike Gold (credited) (consulting editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #46.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Doom Patrol / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Erik Larsen (signed as Erik Larsen [stacked name])
Inks
Robert Campanella (signed as Campanella)
Colors
Anthony Tollin (sourced)
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Doom Patrol: Robotman [Cliff Steele]
Doom Patrol: Celsius [Arani Caulder]; Negative Woman [Valentina Vostock]; Tempest [Joshua Clay]
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Heroes and Villains! (Table of Contents: 1)

Doom Patrol / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Kupperberg (credited)
Pencils
Erik Larsen (credited)
Inks
Gary Martin (credited); Monika Livingston (additional inking)
Colors
Carl Gafford (credited)
Letters
Janice Chiang (credited)
Job Number
G-3490
Genre
superhero
Characters
Celsius [Arani Desai]; Tempest [Joshua Clay]; Negative Woman [Valentina Vostok]; Robotman [Clifford Steele]; Lodestone [Rhea Jones]; Karma [Wayne Hawkins]; Larry Trainor; Harry Stein; Dr. Goodman (Niles Caulder look-alike); Thunder; Hellbender; Goldstar; Holocaust; Sonar; Blockhouse; Scott Fischer [Blaze] (introduction); Jake Morley
Synopsis
Blockhouse, Goldstar, Hellbender, Holocaust, Sonar and Thunder are Goodman's psychiatric patients whom he has augmented into super-villains for Operation Overcast, a corrupted version of an experiment Niles Caulder abandoned being conducted in Highland Hollows.
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Indexer Notes

This issue continues into The Doom Patrol and Suicide Squad Special (1988).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Doom Patrol! / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mike Gold (credited)
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-3037

Indexer Notes

Letters from Kent A. Phenis, T. E. Pouncey, Peter Brewer, Michael L. Hughes, Charles J. Sperling, Matthew Stringer, Dean Christensen, Kevin Hoagan, Rakesh Patel, Stacy Dorchester, George A. Williams, and Mark Lucas.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Doom Patrol
  2. 1. Heroes and Villains!
    Doom Patrol
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Doom Patrol!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Scott Arthur
  • Peter Croome
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Ron Sadowski
  • Andrew S. Troth
  • Jim Van Dore
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