Roots Of The Swamp Thing: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Un-Men And More—In the Swamplight: Showcase Presents... #94

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In the Swamplight
Showcase Presents... #94

Story Title	Pub. Date
"The Doom Patrol Lives Forever"	Aug.-Set. 1977

Writer	Artist
Paul Kupperberg	Joe Staton

Cover	Editors
Jim Aparo	Paul Levitz and Vince Colletta


Chronological Breakdown
• 1975: A Russian cosmonaut, Lt. Col. Valentina Vostock, steals a secret fighter-jet so she can defect, then crashes it in the Caribbean and makes it to the United States. The U.S. Navy salvages the wreckage of the jet and assigns a scientist, Dr. Gilary, to find out what makes it tick, but Vostock is missing. The D.D.I. recalls Matt Cable to its secret headquarters at the "abandoned" Fenwick Military Academy on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., and assigns him to find her. Meanwhile, Cliff Steele (Robotman), last surviving member of the Doom Patrol, returns to the Midway City, Mich., gothic mansion that once served as the headquarters of his fallen comrades, to find a trio of intruders inhabiting his space. They are the missing cosmonaut Vostock (Negative Woman), along with Joshua Clay (Tempest) and Arani Desai Caulder (Celsius), who have formed a new Doom Patrol and are preparing to battle the villainous General Immortus. At that moment, Immortus and his troops storm the building and capture Arani to obtain the formula of an immortality serum developed by her late husband, Niles Caulder.

Trivia
• Although this three-part (published in Showcase Presents... #94-95) story was published in 1977, it cannot occur in that year since Matt Cable left the D.D.I. in 1975. A newspaper headline indicates Swamp Thing is in Gotham at the time of this story, so I am setting it at the same time as The Brave and the Bold #122.

• The original Doom Patrol were killed in 1968 in Doom Patrol #121.


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