The big book of the World’s Strangest Heroes is heading back to print…
DC Comics in 2025 will be re-releasing Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Omnibus, bringing back to print every ’60s adventure of the World’s Strangest Heroes.
Dig this description, culled from online listings:
DOOM PATROL: THE SILVER AGE OMNIBUS
Authors: Arnold Drake, Bob Haney. Illustrated by Bruno Premiani.
The complete Silver Age adventures of the Doom Patrol, comics’ strangest super-team, is collected in a single hardcover!
Led by their wheelchair-bound chief, Niles Calder, three outcasts of society—Negative Man, Elasti-Girl and Robotman—take the qualities that made them freaks to become heroes. Together, the trio takes on bizarre menaces including General Immortus, The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and The Brotherhood of Evil!
Collects MY GREATEST ADVENTURE #80-85, THE DOOM PATROL #86-121 and THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #65.
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A few thoughts:
— The original edition has been out of print for some time — it was published in 2017 — and the cheapest you’re likely to find is around $150, so this is good news for fans who missed out.
— The 1,080-page hardcover lists for $125 and is due March 18, 2025.
— Standard caveat: This has not been solicited by DC yet, so anything can change. Keep coming back to 13th Dimension for updates.
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MORE
— Two Major NEAL ADAMS DC OMNIBUS Editions Set for New Releases in 2025. Click here.
— DC Schedules Four Classic OMNIBUS Editions — Including WORLD’S FINEST: THE SILVER AGE. Click here.
August 6, 2024
How come they’re not including the crossover issue with CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN?
August 7, 2024
I’d heard about the DP in ’60s reprints I got in the early 70s but hadn’t read any stories until DC reprinted several issues and put the origin story in (I think!) a Brave and the Bold or Superman issue. Then I got to read the reboot in the 70s Showcase. Love it!