The Doom Patrol #89 for Sale - First Appearance of The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Doom Patrol (DC, 1964 series)
Issue: #89
Publication date: August 1964
Key date: 1964-08-00
On-sale date: 1964-06-04
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Sven Larsen - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Menace!	cover	1	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown; letters: Ira Schnapp	Doom Patrol [Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]; The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man [Sven Larsen]
1	Rx Against Accidents!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Sheldon Moldoff; letters: Ira Schnapp
2	The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Menace, Part 1	comic story	8.67	script: Arnold Drake; pencils: Bruno Premiani; inks: Bruno Premiani; letters: Stan Starkman	The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man First, Dr. Niles Caulder, Elasti-Girl, Rita Farr, Sven Larsen First, Negative Man, Robotman, Cliff Steele, Larry Trainor
6	Part 2: Lure of the Changing Nightmare	comic story	7.67	script: Arnold Drake; pencils: Bruno Premiani; inks: Bruno Premiani; letters: Stan Starkman	The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man First, Dr. Niles Caulder, Elasti-Girl, Rita Farr, Sven Larsen First, Negative Man, Robotman, Cliff Steele, Larry Trainor
8	-	comic story	0.67	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
9	They Live on Borrowed Time!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	pencils: Bob Brown; inks: Bob Brown; letters: Ira Schnapp
10	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
11	-	letters page	1	script: Murray Boltinoff; pencils: Bruno Premiani; inks: Bruno Premiani
12	The Private War of Elasti-Girl	comic story	7.67	script: Arnold Drake; pencils: Bruno Premiani; inks: Bruno Premiani; letters: Stan Starkman	Doom Patrol [Elasti-Girl [Rita Farr]; Negative Man [Larry Trainor]; Robotman [Cliff Steele]]; Kim Loo; Sgt. Allen Norton
14	These Great Imaginary Stories of the Superman Family...	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: George Klein; letters: Ira Schnapp
15	The Whole Batman Family!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Sheldon Moldoff, Curt Swan; inks: Sheldon Moldoff, Stan Kaye; letters: Ira Schnapp

Plus 5.99 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Doom Patrol #122	1973	On eBay ›
The Doom Patrol Archives #1 ISBN 1-56389-795-4	2002	On eBay ›
Showcase Presents the Doom Patrol #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2182-9	2009	On eBay ›
Doom Patrol: The Silver Age Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-7355-2	2017	On eBay ›
Doom Patrol: The Silver Age #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-8111-3	2018	On eBay ›
DC Finest: The Doom Patrol: The World's Strangest Heroes #[nn] ISBN 978-1-79950-035-3	2025	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #884 of 39#90 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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