CHIEF

Real Name: Dr. Caulder

Class: Human

Occupation: Neurosurgeon

Group Affiliation: Doom Patrol

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile, Earth-12

First Appearance: Plastic Man I #8 (January-February, 1968)

Powers: Chief was a brilliant neurosurgeon who pretended to be confined to a wheelchair.

History: (Plastic Man I #8) - The mayor honored Plastic Man with a ceremony, and 50,000 people showed up. One of the grandstands started buckling under the weight of the crowd, and Plas got under it to hold it up until everyone was evacuated, but the effort was too much for him and the grandstand collapsed on top of him before he could get out. Plas’ sidekick Gordy asked for a doctor, and Dr. Filmore Verbiage responded, but he was a doctor of philosophy so he could do little for Plas. Plas was dazed and didn’t remember his name, and Captain McSniffe arrived to accuse Plastic Man of being up to something, and Madam De Lute, the mother of Plas’ girlfriend Mike, offered McSniffe a million dollars to throw Plastic Man in jail. Chief, the leader of the Doom Patrol, examined Plastic Man and said he was suffering from amnesia, and was a complete blank slate, noting that he’d already picked up Verbiage’s loquacious speech, McSniffe’s paranoia, and De Lute’s snobbiness. Gordy was skeptical of Chief, saying he was a neurosurgeon, not a psychiatrist, and Chief got out of his wheelchair and threatened to hit Gordy with it. Plas wandered off and met the criminal Weasel, who convinced Plas to work for him, unknowingly committing a number of crimes until Plas’ memory returned and he captured the criminal.

Comments: Created by Arnold Drake, Bob Haney & Bruno Premiani.