Grant morrisons doom patrol question.

[matt_hatyber]

ok so i just bought the first volume of doom patrol by grant morrison, and on the cover it says VERTIGO, not DC. Why is this? The seems like its in the dc universe. Has superman, doctor magnus. Can some one explain this for me. Thank you.

[Bradley]

ok so i just bought the first volume of doom patrol by grant morrison, and on the cover it says VERTIGO, not DC. Why is this? The seems like its in the dc universe. Has superman, doctor magnus. Can some one explain this for me. Thank you.

Doom Patrol-- like Sandman, Hellblazer, and Swamp Thing-- was a mature readers book before DC had created the Vertigo imprint (I can't recall if Doom Patrol became a mature reader's book as soon as Morrison took over, or if it was a few issues later). There wasn't really a sense that the mature readers books existed outside of DCU continuity until later-- thus, the Justice League appeared in both Swamp Thing and Sandman, for example.

When DC reissued the first trade to go along with the new trades, they retroactively applied the Vertigo logo to it. If I'm not mistaken, they've done the same thing with some other books-- most notable Morrison's Animal Man, which wasn't even a mature readers title.

[Beria]

Morrison's Doom Patrol was set in the DC Universe. The Vertigo imprint wasn't introduced until Rachel Pollack's first issue in 1993, if I remember correctly. So all of Morrison's run was actually pre-vertigo.

DP was bizarre as hell thoughout Morrison's run, but it became "Mature readers" around issue 37.

[dancj]

Doom Patrol is quite a good fit for Vertigo. I really can't see why the Animal Man TPBs were ever released under the Vertigo label - and why they're labeled as "Mature readers" when they weren't the first time round.