Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1

May 2023 · DC · 3.99 USD

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“Degenerates One and All”

★ 1st appearance — Beast Girl

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Unstoppable Doom Patrol #1 marks the team's first starring title in nearly three years and serves as one of the earliest titles to launch out of DC's 2023 Dawn of DC initiative, firmly re-anchoring the team in main DC continuity after years on the periphery. The issue carries two genuine first appearances — Beast Girl and Degenerate — the first new core Doom Patrol members introduced in the post-Gerard Way era, and it reframes the team's entire reason for existing: rescuing and sheltering newly activated metahumans that the Justice League-centric hero establishment cannot or will not help. By setting the debut mission in Gotham City and staging a direct confrontation with Batman and Robin, writer Dennis Culver immediately positions the Doom Patrol as a philosophical counterweight to mainstream DC heroism, reinforcing the team's decades-long tradition of outsider identity while plugging it into contemporary event continuity.

writer Dennis Culver · artist, inker Chris Burnham · colorist Brian Reber · letterer Pat Brosseau · cover Chris Burnham

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History

The series was conceived by writer Dennis Culver and artist Chris Burnham as a direct continuation of the status quo established in the 'Storm Damaged' short story they contributed to the anthology one-shot Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 (February 2023), which served as a formal prologue to the ongoing run. Culver used his 'Culverized' newsletter to preview the new characters and articulate the creative philosophy — positioning the Doom Patrol explicitly outside the Justice League/Titans/JSA hierarchy and tasking them with advocating for metahumans society criminalizes rather than celebrates. Originally solicited as a six-issue miniseries, advance enthusiasm prompted DC to add an interlude issue, bringing the final count to seven, with the complete run subsequently collected in a single trade paperback.

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First appearance of Beast Girl: a new metahuman whose altered physiology is accompanied by the power to trigger fight-or-flight responses in those around her.
First appearance of Degenerate (Subject 99): a metahuman test subject of the villainous Metagen Corporation whose powers cause him to physically devolve and grow stronger the more his humanity erodes.
First appearance of Metagen Inc. (and its headquarters in flashback), the antagonist corporation that manufactured and imprisoned Degenerate.
The issue introduces 'The Chief' as a new alter of Crazy Jane (Kay Challis), repositioning the Grant Morrison-created multiple-personality character as the team's leader in place of the long-running Niles Caulder.
Written by Dennis Culver, with art and main cover by Chris Burnham, colors by Brian Reber, and letters by Pat Brosseau; edited by Ben Abernathy.
Published March 28, 2023 (cover-dated May 2023) as one of the first releases of DC's Dawn of DC publishing initiative, spinning directly out of the Lazarus Planet crossover event.
Batman (Bruce Wayne) and Robin (Tim Drake) appear as guest antagonists, creating a deliberate philosophical clash between the Doom Patrol's rescue-oriented mission and Gotham's law-enforcement style of heroism; Peacemaker (Christopher Smith) is teased as a future antagonist, and a subplot seeds a new Brotherhood of Evil with Monsieur Mallah, The Brain, and General Immortus.
Multiple variant covers were produced for the issue, including scratch-off variants by Burnham featuring five different versions of Crazy Jane's alters revealed behind a mirror image, a 1:25 variant by Dennis Culver himself, and a 1:50 foil variant by Nathan Szerdy; the complete seven-issue series plus the Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate prologue story was later collected in a trade paperback.