The Doom Patrol #122
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Menace, Part 1," a lab mishap transforms Sven Larsen, a former student of the Chief, into a shape-shifting being capable of altering his own chemistry—only to reveal the incident was no accident, but a calculated experiment. Written by Arnold Drake and illustrated with wild, expressive flair by Bruno Premiani, this 1973 issue of The Doom Patrol blends surreal science fiction with the team's signature oddity, all framed by a dynamic cover by Premiani and Bob Brown.
When a lab mishap transforms former student Sven Larsen into a shapeshifting being of organic and inorganic matter, the Doom Patrol must confront a threat that defies all known science. As the team investigates, they uncover that the transformation was no accident—but a deliberate experiment with dangerous consequences.
In "Part 2: Lure of the Changing Nightmare," the Doom Patrol faces a foe whose very form shifts with malice—Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, driven by a long-buried grudge from their shared past. With The Chief unraveling the truth behind the villain’s vendetta, the team must confront a threat that bends reality itself, testing their unity and resolve.
In a remote corner of Taj Badu, a sabotage attempt on the new electrical grid accidentally awakens a microscopic menace—now magnified to monstrous size and on the move. The country’s engineers and scientists must race to contain the escalating threat before the tiny terror turns the entire region into a battlefield of scale and chaos.
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