Dusty Marlow

DUSTY MARLOW

Real Name: Deborah Marlow

Class: Human

Occupation: Pilot, special services

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: unnamed father

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Oolong Island

First Appearance: Doom Patrol V #1 (October, 2009)

Powers: Dusty was a skilled helicopter pilot armed with a taser.

History: (Doom Patrol V #1) - Dusty was hired to act as support and pilot for the newly reformed Doom Patrol, who acted as a first response team for the newly soverign nation of oolong Island. On DP leader Chief's orders she flew the team to Buena Suerte, where they destroyed the lab of mad scientist Botfly. DP member Nudge was killed by Guena Suerte military, and while her friend Grunt grieved Dusty made the rest of the team et aboard her helicopter so they could retreat back to their base.

(Doom Patrol V #2) -Dusty reported to Oolong President Veronica Cale, and she worried that Chief's goals did not coincide with the safety of her nation.

(Doom Patrol V #3) - Dusty flew the Doom Patrol to Brandenburg to deal with a black hole that had achieved sentience and started possessing people. The DP neutralized the black whole, who agreed to let Dusty fly him back to Oolong to negotiate with the Chief.

(Doom Patrol V #4) - Dusty returned the DP and the black hole to Oolong Island when they were beset by the Black Lantern Corps.

(Doom Patrol V #8) - Dusty talked to Robotman in the aftermath of the Black Lantern’s war on Earth, and asked him how it felt to fight his own resurrected human form. He asked her if she ever wanted anything so bad that it blotted out everything else, and she replied that she always wanted to get with the superhero Beast Boy. Robotman told her he’d finally given up on the idea of being human again, and she said a man was the sum total of the decisions he made in life.

(Doom Patrol V #19) - Dusty overheard President Cale damning the Doom patrol for the damage done to Oolong during an attack by the Secret Six. Dusty warned Elasti-Woman confidentially that Cale was planning on deporting them.

(Doom Patrol V #22) - The DP were kicked out of Oolong, and Mr. Somebody and the M.S.E. set upo shop on the island with Somebody possessing President Cale. Ambush Bug, Crazy Jane and Dusty Marlow banded together, still having loyalty for the DP, and holing up in Danny the Bungalow. Ambush Bug showed his displeasure with Somebody by continually teleporting his super team the Front Men to Antarctica. The DP stormed Ooolong, destroyed the M.S.E.’s security devices, and defeated the Front Men. Mr. Somebody and the M.S.E. confronted the Doom Patrol, but Ambush Bug let Somebody know, using his cosmic awareness, that DC was canceling the Doom Patrol comic, and the DC Universe was being remade after the company wide crossover Flashpoint. Somebody accepted that there was no point in fighting, and abandoned Cale’s body, and left the dimensional plane with the M.S.E. President Cale repatriated the DP.

Comments: Created by Keith Giffen & Matthew Clark.