Sarge Steel of Earth-Four and Cliff Steele of Earth-One always gravitated to where the action was until disaster changed their lives. Then they increased their exposure to danger, to protect the innocent as agents of the people.
Sarge was a member of Army Intelligence operating overseas during the Vietnam War. There he stopped a grenade to protect others, but at the cost of his left hand. Cliff was a famous race car driver, who succumbed to life threatening injuries when his body was pulverized during a deadly car crash.
While Sarge gained cybernetics only in his left hand, Cliff had an entire robotic body with only his human brain housed within its cranium structure. While Sarge worked only on occasion with the Sentinels of Justice… preferring to work solo… Cliff as Robotman worked alongside the Doom Patrol, a team founded by its leader Niles “The Chief” Caulder who had saved Cliff’s life and built his new body.
Both Cliff and Sarge had a more cerebral but equally action-oriented doppelgänger on Earth-Two, scientist Robert Crane aka Robotman, who likewise had his life saved when his brain was implanted into his experimental mechanical body.
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