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Prometheus said:
There's a reason they created the X-Men. It was called the Doom Patrol.



These two books were in simultaneous development in 1963. All indications are that it genuinely was coincidence.

Besides, DP is by far more an analog of the FF than the X-Men.

Brainy guy.
One female.
Blond guy who can fly (well, the Neg being can fly).
Tough guy who ends up in a less than human body.

We all wear a green carnation.