Religion: probably indeterminate
Name: Richard Morgan
Classification: supporting character
First Appearance: The Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #96 (June 1965): "The Day the World Went Mad!"
Creators: Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani
Number of Appearances: 1
Enemy of: General Immortus, Brotherhood of Evil
Defended or Helped by: The Doom Patrol
Occupation: actor
Gender: male
Note: behaved insanely due to an Oriental idol
Richard Morgan was a famous and accomplished film actor working on a movie when he started behaving insanely. Other famous men behaved insanely at roughly the same time. The Doom Patrol investigated, and traced the cause to an Oriental idol and the mechanations of General Immortus and the Brotherhood of Evil.
The movie Richard Morgan was filming was apparently based on "The Bridge over the River Kwai."
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_Patrol_Vol_1_96
- http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/Doom_Patrol/dp96.html
- https://www.comics.org/issue/19206
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=62456