Doctor Doom: The Book Of Doom Omnibus

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Featuring the Latverian ruler’s first battle with the accursed Reed Richards and his Fantastic Four - and their most epic clashes since!

Featuring the Latverian ruler’s first battle with the accursed Reed Richards and his Fantastic Four – and their most epic clashes since! The basic need of a child wanting to have a mother and be comforted by them drives him to learn more and struggle every year to save her. I've never read that and the connection between her and Doom's childhood friend are so critical to his personality it seems a missed opportunity. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For years it was just assumed that he ruled his country with an iron fist and the people were miserable, but once it was revealed (in a couple different stories) that he was actually successful and ruled a prosperous and happy country, yet another dimension is added to this complex villain.The list of creative talents is legendary: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but also Roy Thomas, Bill Mantlo, Chris Claremont, Wallace Wood, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum, Walter Simonson, Mike Weiringo, and many others.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A well-curated collection of some of the best Doctor Doom stories from across the years, this massive tome may suffer from one-too-many retellings of Doctor Doom's origins (best recounted in the Ed Brubaker-penned Books of Doom mini-series in this volume), but this otherwise a focused and comprehensive compilation. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation. It's an engrossing and logical retelling of his origin that to my knowledge hasn't really been reprinted on it's own.

From his early appearances in the Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man by Lee, Kirby and Ditko he's, in general, a super-intelligent one-sided villain, but I think his visual appearance makes him intriguing.