VALENTINA 'VAL' VOSTOK

PERSONAL DATA Aliases: Negative Woman Occupation: Checkmate's White Queen, formerly Adventurer, Lieutenant Colonel in the Soviet Air Force, Cosmonaut Marital Status: Single Known Relatives: None Base of Operation: Checkmate Castle, Switzerland Group Affiliation: Checkmate, formerly Doom Patrol Height: 5'5" Weight: 115 lbs. Eyes: Blue Hair: Blond First Appearance: Showcase #94 (August-September 1977)

  Lt Col Valentina Vostok of the Soviet Air Force chose to defect to the USA, stealing an experimental Russian fighter plane in order to accomplish this. The plane malfunctioned en route and she crash-landed at the spot where the original Doom Patrol had apparently perished and was infused with the energy being which formerly inhabited the body of the Patrol's Negative Man. Inevitably, she became Negative Woman and was recruited for the second Doom Patrol for several years. However, the energy being eventually quit her body and returned to Larry Trainor (Negative Man), whereupon she began to work for the American secret services, being involved in a number of US government departments, most notably Checkmate, where she was recently granted the position of White Queen.