Judge Doom yellow-tinted glasses; he also carries a pocketwatch, as well as a cane which is revealed to be a saber in disguise, for use in emergency situations. During the writing process, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with newly created character Judge Doom. Price and Seaman based the scheme of Judge Doom of destroying Toontown for a freeway by a planned unproduced sequel of
Doom Patrol the featured characters of "My Greatest Adventure", which was soon retitled "Doom Patrol" from issue #86 (March 1964) onwards. The original series was canceled in 1968, when Drake killed the team off in the final issue, "Doom Patrol" #121 (September–October 1968). Since then, there have been six "Doom Patrol" series, with Robotman as the only character to appear in all of them. The Doom Patrol first appeared in 1963, when the DC title "My Greatest Adventure", an adventure anthology title, was being converted to a superhero format. The task assigned to writer Arnold Drake was to create a team that