''My Greatest Adventure'' was a

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that began in 1955 and is best known for introducing the

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team

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Publication history

The title was originally an

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series with adventure stories told in the

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. Over time the types of stories changed from simple adventure to

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. 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. Issues #80-85 were reprinted as part of ''The Doom Patrol Archives, Vol. 1'' (2002, {{ISBN, 1-56389-795-4).

Contributors

Writers

Arnold Drake Arnold Drake (March 1, 1924 – March 12, 2007) was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, amo ...

Bob Haney Robert Gilbert Haney, Jr. (March 15, 1926 – November 25, 2004) was an American comic book writer, best known for his work for DC Comics. He co-created the Teen Titans as well as characters such as Metamorpho, Eclipso, Cain, and the Super-Sons ...

Artists

Mort Meskin Morton Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995)Social Security Death Index, SS# 071-16-1099. was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age. Early ...

Jim Mooney James Noel Mooney (August 13, 1919 – March 30, 2008) was an American comics artist best known for his long tenure at DC Comics and as the signature artist of Supergirl, as well as a Marvel Comics inker and Spider-Man artist, both during wh ...

Ruben Moreira Ruben Moreira (July 27, 1922 – May 21, 1984) was a Puerto Rican comic book artist and writer best known for his work on ''Tarzan'' and as a DC Comics artist. Biography Ruben Moreira moved with his mother to New York City when he was fou ...

Bruno Premiani Giordano Bruno Premiani (January 4, 1907 – August 17, 1984)
at the Lambiek Comiclopedia, which notes, "Most American sources ...

* John Prentice *

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2011 revival

A six issue revival of the series debuted in October 2011, written by

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, Kevin Maguire, and

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as a follow-up to the earlier '' Weird Worlds'' miniseries. It was an anthology featuring three different stories in each issue, ''Garbageman'', ''Tanga'', and ''Robotman''.

Homage

A reference to ''My Greatest Adventure'' appears in ''

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'' #28. When the Titans and Doom Patrol put together a birthday party for

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, members of the Doom Patrol tell the Titans some of their past adventures when Beast Boy was a member, including when they fought

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. Page 10-12 retells the story, and features a mock cover of ''My Greatest Adventure''. In the last volume of ''

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'' prior to

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, the formerly insane

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is shown in #36 as slowly recovering, but still addicted to his helmet. While under a ''creative streak'' induced by the device he starts working on an

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, mostly based on his Doom Patrol years, 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 Comics by Arnold Drake DC Comics titles