Who Is Mr. Thayer Jost? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Mr. Thayer Jost is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Thayer Jost, with over 22 comic issue appearances. Former financier of the Doom Patrol.

Who is Mr. Thayer Jost?

Thayer Jost was the financier of the Doom Patrol for a short time because he was envious of the metahuman condition. Jost believes in corporate sponsorship is a way to pay for costs (Jost's expenses that is). As much as Jost resented metahumans, he found the Doom Patrol profitable for a time. Jost even financed Amanda Beckett 's research on Botfly larva which transformed her into Botfly and in turn Jost supplied Beckett with vagrants to experiment on. Jost also created a corporate funded team called the Front Men . The Front Men consisted of Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man , Botfly and Porcelain Doll . Jost recruited AVM Man by alerting the police of his location in order to test out Dr. Larsen's potential.

Key facts

Mr. Thayer Jost is of human origin and first appeared in "We're Doomed". The character is published by DC Comics. With 22 recorded issue appearances, Mr. Thayer Jost ranks among the most featured characters in comics.