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Elasti-Girl
Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr Dayton, also known as Elasti-Woman) is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as a member of the Doom Patrol. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Bruno Premiani, the character first appeared in ''My Greatest Adventure'' #80 (June 1963). Elasti-Girl has appeared in numerous cartoon television shows and films. She made her first live-action appearance on the DC Universe and Max series ''Titans'', played by April Bowlby, who reprised the role for the series ''Doom Patrol''. Publication history Elasti-Girl was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani. She first appeared in ''My Greatest Adventure'' #80 (June 1963). According to Drake, the issue's co-writer Bob Haney was not brought on to the project until after Elasti-Girl was created. Fictional character biography Rita Farr is an Olympic swimming gold medalist turned Hollywood actress who is exposed to unusual volcanic gases while shooting a film in Africa. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doom Patrol
Doom Patrol is a superhero team from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in ''My Greatest Adventure'' #80 (June 1963), and was created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney, along with artist Bruno Premiani. Doom Patrol has appeared in different incarnations in multiple comics, and have been adapted to other media. The series' creator has suspected that Marvel Comics copied the basic concept to create the X-Men, which debuted a few months later. Doom Patrol are a group of super-powered misfits whose "gifts" caused them alienation and trauma. Dubbed the "world's strangest heroes" by editor Murray Boltinoff, the original team included the Chief (comics), Chief (Niles Caulder), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Robotman (Cliff Steele), Elasti-Girl (Rita Farr), and Negative Man (Larry Trainor); Beast Boy (Garfield Logan) and Mento (comics), Mento (Steve Dayton) joined soon after. The team remained the featured characters of ''My Greatest Adventure'', which was re-titled ''Doom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |