Sep 1966
Blood Brothers
Mr. 103 returns and teams up with Gar's legal guardian, Mr. Galtry. 103 is the muscle and the brains of the operation. Galtry is writing the checks.
The Chief thinks he has found a weakness in Mr. 103 and a way to exploit it. The Doom Patrol use the chief's latest device on Mr. 103 it doesn't stop him in his tracks. Instead it freezes him in the form he has taken, which happens to be radioactive. 103 panics, afraid that he will decay into nothing. He promises to turn himself him in if they will help him. They help him but he breaks his word and runs off. As he scampers away Mr. 103 inadvertently lets drop that Galtry is the one who wanted hired him to kill them. The story ends with Steve Dayton hiring a detective to look into Galtry.
The Private World of Negative Man
The origin of Negative Man as told in shocking detail!
The goofiness of the first story is matched by the gruesomeness of the second one. Love how silly the fight between Mr. 103 and the Doom Patrol gets. There's a little bit of marital strife between Rita and Steve. He doesn't want her gallivanting off with her Doom Patrol buddies. He only shows up to help fight Mr. 103 because he wants his wife back.
It should probably come as no surprise that I preferred the first story to the second one. Both hint at continuing story lines but only the first one had the wackiness that I love in Silver Age Doom Patrol stories.
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