With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr.

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. 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.

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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! Love,love love this book,but my advice is to immediately unwrap and inspect the books binding carefully. Doom has appeared in Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Champions, led his own feature stories in Astonishing Tales and Super-Villain Team-Up, and the star of two utterly fantastic graphic novels, Emperor Doom and Triumph and Torment. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. 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.

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 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. Does the new omnibus cover the most relevant issues of the character and is it good omnibus for someone who doesnt know anything about the character? Featuring the Latverian ruler’s first battle with the accursed Reed Richards and his Fantastic Four — and their most epic clashes since!