My Greatest Adventure is a DC Comics comic book that began in 1955 and is best known for introducing the superhero team Doom Patrol.[1][2][3][4]
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.[3]
Issues #80–85 were reprinted as part of The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1 (2002, ISBN 1-56389-795-4).
Contributors
Writers
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.
External links
- My Greatest Adventures at Mike's Amazing World of Comics
- My Greatest Adventure at Cover Browser
References
- Mark Seifert. The First Doom Patrol in My Greatest Adventure #80, Up for Auction Bleeding Cool, November 7, 2022, retrieved October 1, 2025^
- Tom Miller. Doom Patrol: Comic Book Origins of the DC Universe Series CBR, September 15, 2020^
- Andrew A. Smith. 'Doom Patrol' is weird; they like it like that The Guam Daily Post, January 29, 2019, retrieved October 1, 2025^
- Sage Ashford. The First 10 Superhero Teams In DC Comics CBR, October 2, 2022, retrieved October 1, 2025^