Doom Patrol Volume 2 TPs: duplicate core titles + multiple editions = a mess

Hi -

There are 2 core title entries for the TPs of Doom Patrol Vol 2 (1987-1995). One is called “Doom Patrol TB” and one is called “Doom Patrol, Vol.3 TP” but they both collect Doom Patrol Volume 2 issues. Hang with me as this might get confusing…

A) The 4 entries listed under the title “Doom Patrol TB” are all correct in terms of their data except for maybe needing ‘Vol 2’ added to the title. These were all printed for the first time in 2016. The four books contain issues as shown below:

1: issues 19-34

2: issues 35-50

3: issues 51-63

4: issues 64-74

Here is a link to the first 3 and a link to the 4th as well:

B) The 8 entries (books 1-6) under the title “Doom Patrol, Vol. 3 TP” are also correct in terms of data - except for incorrectly being called V3 - and are collected editions put out between 2000-2008. What makes this a pain in the butt is that cover artwork is sometimes duplicated between the 2 collected edition sets yet they don’t have the same contents ( for example, TPs 1 use the same artwork and the art from #2 in one edition is #3 in the other). Note that this is because set of 4 books covers issues 19-74 and the set of 6 books only covers 19-63.

1: issues 19-25

2: issues 26-34

3: issues 35-41

4: issues 42-50

5: issues 51-57

6: issues 58-63

Here is a link to the 6:

C) In addition, and included as #1TP-B / 2nd Printing 2004 under the “Doom Patrol, Vol. 3 TP” core title is a collection entitled ‘From The Wreckage’ first collected in 1992. The indica for the 1st printing is below. I do not believe any other printings were done nor were any other collections of Doom Patrol Vol.2 made until the 2000-2008 6 book series.

Please let me know how I can help straighten this out in core. Happy to provide any additional info or talk through it at any time. Thanks.

Happy to provide any additional info or talk through it at any time.

Please be my guest. But please, try to keep it short and simple. Thank you.

lol. Yeah DC really screwed this one up. I will eventually create 3 posts in the forum and you can consider this one closed:

  • One with a series title change suggestion for my point A as well as any meta data (cover art issue numbering, plot, etc) that needs to be updated for those 4 books.
  • One with a series title change suggestion for my point B as well as any meta data (cover art issue numbering, plot, etc) that need to be updated for those 8 books.
  • One with an ask to move the incorrect book for my point C into a new title or into the main title for the collection.

Thanks.

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