My Greatest Adventure

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Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol. Art by Bruno Premiani.
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Cover to My Greatest Adventure #80 (June 1963), the first appearance of the Doom Patrol. Art by Bruno Premiani.

My Greatest Adventure was a DC Comics comic book that began in 1955 and is best known as the original title for the superhero team, the Doom Patrol.

Originally, it began as an anthology series with adventure stories told in the first person narrative. In 1963 in issue #80, the Doom Patrol first appeared and proved so popular that the title changed to The Doom Patrol in #86 onward.

[edit] Homage

Teen Titans Go #28 has the Titans and Doom Patrol putting together a birthday party for Beast Boy. During the issue, the Doom Patrol tell the Titans some of their past adventures when Beast Boy was among them. One of them was a time when they fought Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man. Page 10-12 retells the story, starting with a mock cover of My Greatest Adventure'.