![]() ![]() ![]() Byrne emphasized other aspects of Doom's personality despite his ruthless nature, Doctor Doom is a man of honor. Whereas Kirby had intimated that Doom's disfigurement was more a figment of Victor's vain personality, Byrne decided that Doctor Doom's face was truly ravaged: only Doctor Doom's own robot slaves are allowed to see the monarch without his helmet. The same year, John Byrne began his six-year run writing and illustrating Fantastic Four, sparking a "second golden age" for the title but also attempting to "turn the clock back and get back and see fresh what it was that made the book great at its inception." Doctor Doom made his first appearance under Byrne's tenure with issue #236. Their greatest hero against our greatest villain." Marvel editor in chief Jim Shooter co-wrote the story with Marv Wolfman, and recalled choosing Doctor Doom based on his iconic status: "I figured I needed the heaviest-duty bad guy we had to offer - Doctor Doom. the Amazing Spider-Man, and seeking to replicate that success the two companies again teamed the characters in Superman and Spider-Man in 1981. In 1976, Marvel and DC Comics collaborated on Superman vs. Doctor Doom's origin was also a feature in Astonishing Tales when his ties to the villain Mephisto were revealed. While the Fantastic Four had fought various villains such as the Mole Man, Skrulls, the Miracle Man, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, Doctor Doom managed to overshadow them all and became the Fantastic Four's archnemesis.ĭuring the 1970s, Doctor Doom branched out to more Marvel titles such as Astonishing Tales, The Incredible Hulk, and Super-Villain Team-Up, starting in 1975, as well as appearances in Marvel Team-Up, beginning with issue #42 (February 1976). In some early stories glimpses of his face are shown, in which he appears to be bald. There is also an idea that Doctor Doom placed his mask on his face before it fully cooled, burning his face. Typical of Lee's writing characterization of Doctor Doom is his arrogance his pride leads to Doctor Doom's disfigurement at the hands of his own machine, and to the failures of many of his schemes. To Kirby, this is the motivation for Doctor Doom's vengeance against the world because others are superior due to this slight scar, Doom wants to elevate himself above them. He was …but through a flaw in his own character, he was a perfectionist." At one point in the 1970s, Kirby drew his interpretation of what Doctor Doom would look like under the mask, giving Doctor Doom only "a tiny scar on his cheek." Due to this slight imperfection, Doctor Doom hides his face not from the world, but from himself. Kirby went on to say that "Doctor Doom is an evil person, but he's not always been evil. Death is something without mercy, and human flesh contains that mercy." Kirby further described Doctor Doom as being "paranoid", wrecked by his twisted face and wanting the whole world to be like him. Death is connected with armor and the inhuman-like steel. Jack Kirby modeled Doctor Doom after Death, with the armor standing in for that character's skeleton "It was the reason for the armor and the hood. ![]() With the Fantastic Four title performing well, Lee and Kirby were trying to dream up a "soul-stirring…super sensational new villain." Looking for a name, Lee latched onto "Doctor Doom" as "eloquent in its simplicity - magnificent in its implied menace."ĭue to the rush to publish, the character was not given a full origin story until Fantastic Four Annual #2, two years after his debut. Like many of Marvel's Silver Age characters, Doctor Doom was conceived by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby. IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Doctor Doom as #3. He was ranked as the 4th Greatest Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list. The character was created by Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962) wearing his trademark metal mask and green cloak. ![]() Doctor Doom(Victor Von Doom) is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]()
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