He believes that mankind's testing of atomic weapons is what attracted the aliens attention, and the unidentified ship was designed to monitor the planet's technological advancements. The Chief discovers a strange alien spacecraft that has crash landed on Earth. Her career in ruins, due to her mutation, she now fights alongside the Doom Patrol as Elasti-Girl. During filming of one of her movies, Rita was exposed to strange vapors that granted he the ability to alter her size at will. Rita Farr was a Hollywood starlet, and Olympic level swimmer. As a side effect of the incident, Larry can now summon a dark energy being from his body, which he calls the Negative Man. Now he exists as a living mummy, forced to wear special bandages to contain the radiation that has disfigured his body. Larry Trainor was once a civilian test pilot – until the fateful day when he flew an experimental suborbital aircraft into a stratospheric belt of radiation. The Chief's scientific genius transferred Steele's brain into a new robot body. Robotman was once Cliff Steele, an international sportsman and daredevil whose body was burned to a cinder after a deadly racecar crash. As the heroes greet one another, they learn of the personal circumstances that brought them all together. He eventually returned to Argentina, where he died in 1984.This story is reprinted from My Greatest Adventure #80.Īn aging wheelchair bound scientist known only as the Chief gathers together three super-powered outcasts: Robotman, Elasti-Girl and Negative Man. In 1964, Premiani was the artist on 'Kid Flash, Aqualad and Robin', a spin-off with Batman's sidekick Robin, Aquaman's sidekick Aqualad and a younger version of the Flash. In addition, he did the cover and interior art for DC's 'Brave & Bold' series, starring Cave Carson. Until 1968, Premiani drew most of the 'Doom Patrol' stories in My Greatest Adventures and later the 'Doom Patrol' comic book. However, 'Doom Patrol' debuted June 1963 and 'X-Men' three months later. This series, about a trio with special abilities (Elasti-Girl, Negative-Man and Robotman), led by a man in a wheelchair, has a striking resemblance to Marvel's 'X-Men' series. Premiani's best known work for National/DC was the creation of 'Doom Patrol' with Arnold Drake in 1963. Around this time, he had already contributed to Gilberton's Classics Illustrated series, and also worked as an inker for Jack Kirby and Stan Drake and on Curt Swan's 'The Rip Van Winkle of Smallville'. In 1960, Premiani returned to live in the States once again. He also worked at Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Crestwood studios, and made comic biographies of US historical figures for the State Department. He started out working with the historical 'Tomahawk' character and 'Pow-Wow Smith Indian Detective' for Detective Comics. ![]() From 1947, Premiani illustrated a great number of comic adaptations of literary classics in the 'Patoruzito Classics' series, which appeared in Dante Quinterno's Patoruzito magazine.īetween 19, Premiani lived in the United States, where he began a longtime collaboration with National/DC Comics. Premiani only returned to Italy once, to bury his mother in the early 1950s.ĭuring the 1940s, Premiani continued to work as an illustrator for Argentinian magazines, such as Billiken and Léoplan. In the meantime, the Italian government kept track of Premiani's anti-fascist activities for the Crítica daily, and stated that Premiani was to be arrested when he got back to Italy. For this newspaper, he did the educational comic section 'Seen and Heard' which ran from 1932 to 1940. There, he began drawing for the Agencia Wisner advertising shop and the daily newspaper Crítica. Not happy with the fascism that had taken over Italy, Premiano took the boat to Argentina in 1930. ![]() From 1921 to 1925, Premiani studied at the high school of arts and crafts in Trieste, which was a part of Italy by now. ![]() Most American sources list his birth year as 1924, but Italian police records mention 4 January 1907. Born in Trieste in the Austro-Hungarian empire as the son of a Slovenian Imperial Railway employee and an Italian mother, Giordano Bruno Premiani has lived in Argentina for most of his life. Bruno Premiani was an Italian anti-fascist with a passion for history, who became a successful comic book artist in Argentina and the United States.
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