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Another prophetic
statement.... an attempt to use one of Mento's helmets years later
twisted Gar's shapeshifting powers.
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Doom Patrol 111 p. 5
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A good example of an
early coloring issue - about 75% of the time, Gar was colored as a
normal colored animal with a green face. Wolfman and Perez later
set the standard on Gar's animal coloring as all green. Also a
good example of Steve having regrets on adopting Gar.
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Doom Patrol 111 p. 6
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Splitting
time between the Doom Patrol and family did tend to split Elasti-Girl's
attention - as well as frustrate her family. However,
Dayton was
willing to shell out big bucks to try and give Gar normal coloring.
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Doom Patrol 113 p. 5
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Rita, however, would
have none of that. Based on later revelations about the Chief,
it's a good thing it never happened....
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Doom Patrol 113 p. 6
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I love this
picture... I wish it wasn't so pixellated, but that's the 1960's
printing processes....
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Doom Patrol 116 p. 10
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Whether at home or on
a mission, Beast Boy and Mento seemed to get paired up quite frequently
after Gar's adoption.
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Doom Patrol 116 p. 13
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Just a fun little
team scene while the Chief dines with the "freed" Madame Rouge.
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Doom Patrol 116 p. 23 - click for
larger image
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As the title of my
site says, it's not easy being green. The father of Gar's first
on and off girlfriend Jillian was quite against the two seeing each
other. Later on he eventually sends Jillian to a European
finishing school to get her away from Gar.
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Doom Patrol 119 p.
15 - click image
for full sized page
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Despite all of this,
Rita was reluctant to allow Dayton to try to change Gar's coloring.
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Doom Patrol 119 p.
16 - click for larger image
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Eventually Jillian
(called just "Jill" in those days) apparently convinced her dad to let
her go out with Gar.
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Doom Patrol 120 p. 5
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Apparently, by this
time Drake had given up on Gar hiding his shapeshifting. He was
safely out of Galtry's hands and legally the adopted child of Steve and
Rita Dayton. His new guardians didn't seem to mind him using his
powers, so why should he hide it? But why does Dayton keep his Mento
helmet in the car?
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Hmmm... the family
that fights together.... never mind ^^;
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This is the last
issue of Doom Patrol that Gar
appears in. He wasn't present when
the Doom Patrol made their final (for most of them) sacrifice.
After the death of the Doom Patrol, Steve Dayton swore he would find
the killers and set off (with Mento costume mark 3) to hunt them down,
leaving Gar for the most part in charge of Dayton Industries and in the
hands of Vernon Questor, Dayton's business manager.
Gar didn't
appear in
any further comic books until Teen
Titans #50-52,
as part of the new team, Teen Titans West. After those 3 issues,
he wasn't seen again until New Teen
Titans... where the the hunt for
the killers of the Doom Patrol reached it's close.
His involvement
with
the Doom Patrol never totally ended, as Gar
appeared in several issues of the Doom
Patrol series by John
Arcudi and Tan Eng Huat.
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Doom Patrol 120 p. 23
- Gar's final Doom Patrol appearance
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