Grave Minders

Current Members

• Willoughby Kipling
• Lucius Reynolds
• Lotion

Origin

When the Doom Patrol adjusted their purpose to take in misunderstood metahumans and train them to control their often dangerous abilities, they increased the size of their operations significantly. This included a mystic division made up of a few old friends with magic experience

Creation

The Grave Minders are first seen in Unstoppable Doom Patrol #2 by Dennis Culver and Chris Burnham.

Major Story Arcs

The Return of the Candlemaker

Eventually, the Doom Patrol had recruited enough new metahumans to create a new team called the Flex Force. To demonstrate their progress, their coach, Flex Mentallo, put together a friendly game of capture the flag. Unfortunately, this game was interrupted by a new Brotherhood of Evil. The Grave Minders arrive to help, and Kipling gives Robotman an important message. The Brotherhood was a distraction so that General Immortus could dig up Dorothy Spinner's grave and use her power to channel The Candlemaker.

Kipling tried to ward Robotman against Immortus' new magic, but Robotman was in desperate need of backup. Crazy Jane was unwilling to leave The Shelter and the untested metahumans vulnerable to the Brotherhood. Jane was forced to pull out two aces in the hole. The team allowed Mento to use his full dangerous potential, and Jane convinced The Quiz, who Immortus had rescued and enslaved from the Painting That Ate Paris, to switch sides. Combining their powers allowed them to defeat this new Candlemaker, who Quiz than threw into The Bleed.