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Mar 9, 2019

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 1474: The Doom Patrol #120, August 1968


Oh, Cliff. If only you knew what was coming in the next issue.

The team (well, Larry and Cliff) investigate the absence of space debris in orbit around the Earth, and Rita and Steve go dancing. Have I mentioned that this is a very weird series?

The coolest part of today's comic is that Cliff switches around through a number of different bodies when his main one is destroyed. Though no one turns away from as this cover suggests. Sometimes the covers of these old issues really have very little to do with the story inside. It's a bit of false advertising, really, though the story turns out to be pretty good anyway. Cliff goes through a number of bodies over the years, though the "heavy metal" design of Caulder's from the Morrison run seems to have become the default. I'm glad of that, though his weird spider-body from the Insect Mesh storyline (seriously, just read it) is pretty sweet too.

"There goes the Wrecker's base -- rocketing home! And I wanna meet him in my Sunday body!"


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