

Whereas Kirby had intimated that Doom's disfigurement was more a figment of Victor's vain personality, Byrne decided that Doom's face was truly ravaged: only Doom's own robot slaves are allowed to see the monarch without his helmet. Their greatest hero against our greatest villain." ġ981 also saw John Byrne begin 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 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. Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter co-wrote the story with Marv Wolfman, and recalled choosing Victor Von 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. Doom's origin was also a feature in Astonishing Tales when his ties to the villain Mephisto were revealed. Beginning with issue #42, he also had appearances in Marvel Team-Up (February 1976).

During the 1970s, Doom branched out to more Marvel titles such as Astonishing Tales, The Incredible Hulk, and Super-Villain Team-Up (1975). While the Fantastic Four had fought various villains such as the Mole Man, Skrulls, the Miracle Man, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, Doom managed to overshadow them all and became the Fantastic Four's archnemesis. Stan Lee's writing typically showed Doom's arrogance as his constant downfall, and how his pride leads to Von 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 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 Doom would look like under the mask, giving Doom only "a tiny scar on his cheek." Due to this slight imperfection, Doom hides his face not from the world, but from himself. Kirby went on to say that although "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 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 modelled Doom after Death, with the armor standing in for that character's skeleton "It was the reason for the armor and the hood.
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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. With the Fantastic Four title performing well, Lee and Kirby were trying to dream up a "soul-stirring…super sensational new villain" for the series. Like many of Marvel's Silver Age characters, Doom was conceived by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Publication history Creation and development

Doctor Doom, on the variant cover of The Amazing Spider-Man vol.
