Travel Foreman Reveals Art For His And Jeff Lemire’s Rejected ‘Doom Patrol’ Pitch

While the 50th anniversary of the X-Men has received significant attention, another 50th anniversary for a similar team has gone largely unnoticed. Created in 1963 by Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani, Murray Boltinoff and Bob Haney (though Haney's role is disputed), the Doom Patrol were the oddball, outcast hero team for DC Comics, in some ways the equivalent of Marvel's X-Men -- though the Doom Patrol actually debuted first. And while Marvel's premiere mutants have become a pop culture phenomenon, and have about 37 different monthly series right now, the Doom Patrol have never quite experienced the same success. There have been memorable runs on the title, most notably by writers Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack, but for the most part the team is largely left unused, and spent their 50th birthday without so much as their own monthly title.

But it wasn't for lack of effort from Travel Foreman and Jeff Lemire. The two creators, whose work on Animal Man ranks among the most praised collaborations of DC's New 52 initiative, pitched a Doom Patrol series shortly after Foreman's run on Animal Man concluded. Alas, it was rejected, but Foreman has revealed art from the pitch, a series he is very much still interested in doing but says isn't likely to happen.

"Right after Animal Man I was pushing to do Doom Patrol with Lemire," says Foreman. "I’ve expressed my interest in doing the book to DC several times but it doesn’t seem to be something thats ever going to happen."

After the pitch was rejected, Foreman says he began to develop a similar concept for Zuerst: Science Fiction Magazine, and says he still plans on doing "a Doom Patrol copy at some point."

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