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My Greatest Adventure

DC Comics anthology series (1955–1964)

Field	Value
image	Mygreatestadventure80.JPG
caption	Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol; art by Bruno Premiani.
schedule	Monthly
format	Ongoing
publisher	DC Comics
date	January 1955 – February 1964
issues	85
main_char_team	Doom Patrol

My Greatest Adventure is a DC Comics comic book that began in 1955 and is best known for introducing the superhero team Doom Patrol.

Publication history

The title was originally an anthology series with adventure stories told in the first-person narrative. Over time the types of stories changed from simple adventure stories to science fiction. With issue #80 (June 1963), the anthology format was dropped and replaced with stories featuring the Doom Patrol. Issue #85 was the last to bear the My Greatest Adventure title; the series was renamed The Doom Patrol going forward from issue #86.

Issues #80–85 were reprinted as part of The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1 (2002, ).

Contributors

Writers

Arnold Drake
Bob Haney

Artists

Mort Meskin
Jim Mooney
Ruben Moreira
Bruno Premiani
John Prentice
Alex Toth

2011 revival

A six-issue revival of the series debuted in October 2011, and was written by Aaron Lopresti, Kevin Maguire, and Matt Kindt. It was an anthology featuring three stories: Garbageman, Tanga, and Robotman.

Homages

A reference to My Greatest Adventure appears in Teen Titans Go! #28. When the Titans and Doom Patrol put together a birthday party for Beast Boy, members of the Doom Patrol tell the Titans some of their past adventures when Beast Boy was a member, including when they fought Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. This flashback features a mock cover of My Greatest Adventure.

In Teen Titans #36, Steve Dayton starts working on an autobiography based on his time in the Doom Patrol, which he plans to call My Greatest Adventure.

References

Seifert, Mark. (November 7, 2022). "The First Doom Patrol in My Greatest Adventure #80, Up for Auction".
Miller, Tom. (September 15, 2020). "Doom Patrol: Comic Book Origins of the DC Universe Series".
Smith, Andrew A.. (January 29, 2019). "'Doom Patrol' is weird; they like it like that".
Ashford, Sage. (October 2, 2022). "The First 10 Superhero Teams In DC Comics".

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