Doom Patrol Vol 2 20

"Rain Brain says your voice is like an old black telephone and Black Annis told me to tell you that you're the first man she hasn't wanted to castrate."

- Crazy Jane

"Cautionary Tales" is the title to the twentieth issue of the second Doom Patrol ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics. The story was written by Grant Morrison with artwork by Richard Case and inks by Scott Hanna. It was colored by Michele Wolfman and lettered by D. Hopper Workman. The story was edited by Robert Greenberger. This issue shipped with a March, 1989 cover date and carries a cover price of $1.50 per copy (US).

Appearances

 * The Chief, Niles Caulder
 * Crazy Jane, Kay Challis
 * Joshua Clay
 * Rebis, Larry Trainor/Eleanor Poole
 * Robotman, Cliff Steele


 * Eleanor Poole
 * Will Magnus


 * Scissormen


 * Father McGarry
 * Harriet
 * Jamie Belshaw undefined
 * Ralph
 * Stuart


 * Doom Patrol
 * Scissormen


 * Humans
 * Cyborgs
 * Metahumans
 * Orqwithians


 * New York
 * New York City
 * Manhattan


 * North Carolina
 * Alamance Memorial Hospital


 * Scotland
 * Greenock


 * Germany
 * Stuttgart


 * Japan
 * Kyoto


 * Patagonia
 * Africa
 * South Africa
 * Johannesburg


 * Australia
 * Iceland
 * Reykjavík


 * Russia
 * Leningrad


 * Italy
 * Rome


 * Orqwith
 * Orqwith Station


 * Crucifix
 * Scissors
 * Wheelchair


 * Subway


 * Levitation
 * Radioactivity
 * Teleportation


 * Doctor
 * Fish
 * Hospital
 * Mental health facility
 * Severed hands
 * Spontaneous human combustion

Notes & Trivia

 * Letterer John Workman is credited as D. Hopper Workman in this issue.


 * Rebis is a term used by medieval alchemists to identify the result of a chymical wedding, according to Niles Caulder. Rebis is the name that the gestalt form of Larry Trainor and Eleanor Poole adopts in this issue.


 * Long before there were "Women in Refrigerators", we first had a priest named Father McGarry, who gets crushed to death by a refrigerator falling from the sky. It all happens right here!


 * This is the second and final appearance of Ralph, who dies in this issue. He was a mental patient at Alamance Memorial Hospital. He appeared last in Doom Patrol #19.


 * Rain Brain, Black Annis, Flit, and Baby Doll are four of Crazy Jane's alternate personalities referenced in this issue.


 * Cliff Steele's room at Alamance Memorial Hospital is 205.

Reprints

 * The storyline from this collection is reprinted in the following volumes:
 * Doom Patrol Omnibus
 * Doom Patrol: Book One
 * Doom Patrol: Crawling from the Wreckage