After Trainor's return, he gains strength from being in Vostok's presence and pleads with her to return the negative being to him. Later, as with Trainor, it would emerge from her leaving her physically weak but in control of it and requiring her to wear special bandages just as Trainor had. Initially, Vostok could transform herself into a radio-energy form, possessing the same capabilities as Trainor's "partner".
In Showcase #94 (September 1977), the Negative Spirit reappears when it possesses a Russian cosmonaut, Colonel Valentina Vostok, who becomes Negative Woman. He turned up alive, permanently separated from the radio energy being, but still radioactive, bandaged, and weak in its absence. Later, it was revealed that Larry Trainor somehow (never explained) survived the explosion. The Doom Patrol sacrificed their lives to Madame Rouge and General Zahl (who pushed the actual kill button) to save the small fishing village of Codsville, Maine. Sales of Doom Patrol had waned, and the creative team chose to kill off the entire team, including Negative Man, in the final issue, Doom Patrol (vol. After his accident, Trainor resembles the Invisible Man he is forced to wear specially treated bandages over his entire body to protect bystanders from his radioactivity. But Trainor is weak and defenseless while the being is separated from his body he can only send it forth for 60 seconds at a time without risking death. The being is under Trainor's control and appears at first to have no mind of its own. It resembles a shadowy silhouette of a human being, surrounded by a bright glow.
This experience leaves him radioactive, but also gives him a strange superpower: the ability to release a negatively charged energy being from his body the being, also referred to as Negative Man, or, later, as the Negative Spirit, can fly at high speed, cause solid objects to explode, and pass through solid materials. Trainor's career as a superhero begins when he is accidentally exposed to a radioactive field in the atmosphere while piloting a test plane. Like the rest of the Doom Patrol, Trainor sees himself as a victim as much as a hero, and his superpower as an affliction rather than a blessing. The original Negative Man, Larry Trainor, is a founding member of the Doom Patrol, along with Elasti-Girl, Robotman, and Chief. Fictional character biography Larry Trainor The most novel aspect was Negative Man, the character who lives inside him who can only be outside of him for 60 seconds - and don't ask me why 60 seconds.
We sat down and came up with this notion of a guy who has gone through a cloud of radioactivity and is bandaged from head to toe with these specially treated bandages that keep the radioactivity within him so he isn't injurious to others. He said he didn't get an assignment from Kanigher, and I told him I had this assignment that I was about two-thirds through with, but I needed another character and maybe between us we could come up with something. He had this routine where he'd come up from Woodstock once a week and stay for two nights and get a couple of assignments from Kanigher and then go back home and write them. I asked him if he got an assignment from Bob Kanigher. I left office and bumped into Bob Haney in the hall. The Larry Trainor version of Negative Man first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80 and was created by Bob Haney, Arnold Drake, and Bruno Premiani.
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