Fantastic Four (Vol. 1) Annual #2 (September, 1964) - ORIGIN OF DR. DOOM

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<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/5/56/Quote1.png/revision/latest?cb=20080712212308" alt="Quote1" class="" data-image-key="Quote1.png" data-image-name="Quote1.png" width="29" height="22" > Time is one of the greatest mysteries in life! Even the great 20th century scientist, Einstein, I believe his name was, could not completely solve the enigma, although he came close with his theory of relativity! <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/8/88/Quote2.png/revision/latest?cb=20141130013546" alt="Quote2" class="" data-image-key="Quote2.png" data-image-name="Quote2.png" width="29" height="22" > -- Rama-Tut

Appearing in "Origin of Doctor Doom!"

Present

Featured Characters:

• Doctor Doom (See chronology)

Supporting Characters:

• Boris (See chronology)
• Werner von Doom (First appearance) (Only in flashback) (Death) (See chronology)

Antagonists:

• <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > King Vladimir Fortunov <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Reed Richards (See chronology)
• <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Ben Grimm <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" >
• Monks of Doom (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
• Zefiro (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
• Doombot (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• Latveria (First appearance)
  • Doomstadt (First appearance)
    • Doctor Doom's Castle (First appearance)
• United States of America
  • New York City, New York State
    • State University

Items:

• Doctor Doom's Armor
• Freeze Grenade

Vehicles:

• 
  
  
  

Synopsis for "Origin of Doctor Doom!"

Doctor Doom is met by his minion Boris on the eve of his mother's death. Doom ventures out to the field where his life began and reflects back...

As a young boy, Victor von Doom's father --a gypsy healer-- is asked by the King's men to heal the King's wife. Werner von Doom tries his best but fails, and when the King's wife dies of her illness, he sends his troops to get Werner. Werner and his son Victor flee into the mountains, where the father wraps the boy in his own coat while they hide in the snow and ice. They are found by the rest of their clan and taken back to the village. Before he dies from exposure, Werner asks Boris to look after his son. Boris interprets this to mean to watch out for the boy, not look after him. Furious at the death of both his father and mother at the hands of the King, Victor digs up his mother's old chest, filled with mystical potions and books.

Doom soon becomes a master of science and sorcery, using both skills to protect his people and swindle the wealthy. He avoids execution by allowing the King's guard to capture robot duplicates of himself. Eventually, Victor's technological know-how attracts the administrators at State University, who offer him a full scholarship in America. Victor agrees, and while attending State University, he almost ends up sharing a room with Reed Richards. However Doom's arrogance and demands for private quarters prompts Richards to leave. This snubbing leads to Richards rooming with Ben Grimm. Victor becomes determined to contact the neitherworld and one day, Reed enters Victor's room unannounced and looks over Victor's notes for the device that would allow Victor to achieve his goals. Victor catches him and instantly becomes angry, kicking Reed out and ignoring the warnings that some of his calculations are off.

When his device is complete, Victor has his assistant activate it, but the miscalculations cause the device to explode in his face. Scarred, Victor bandages his face and is ejected from school in disgrace for his unauthorized experiment. Victor travels the mountains of Tibet, where he finds an order of monks who teach him about magic. Later, Doom has them fashion him a suit of armor. Impatiently, Doom places the iron mask on his face before it has time to cool. Doom then leaves the monks and eventually takes over his homeland, where he becomes the arch-nemesis to the Fantastic Four.

... With his recollections over, Doctor Doom returns to his castle, leaving Boris to wonder when Doom will menace the human race once again.

Appearing in "A Gallery of the Fantastic Four's Greatest Foes!"

Featured Characters

• Super Skrull
• Rama-Tut
• Hate Monger
• The Molecule Man
• The Infant Terrible
• Diablo
  
  

Synopsis for "A Gallery of the Fantastic Four's Greatest Foes!"

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Appearing in "Prisoners of Dr. Doom!"

This story is a reprint of the comic
Fantastic Four #5.

Featured Characters:

• The Fantastic Four
  • Mister Fantastic (See chronology)
  • Invisible Girl (See chronology)
  • The Thing (See chronology) (Poses as Blackbeard)
  • Human Torch (See chronology)

Antagonists:

• Doctor Doom (First appearance) (See chronology)
  • Doom's pet tiger
  • Doom's pet vulture
  • Doombot (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Unnamed New Yorkers
• Errol Flynn (Mentioned) (Topical reference)
• Several pirates
  • Mr. Spliny (First appearance)
• Hulk (Photo)

Races and Species:

• 
  

Locations:

• Earth
  • United States of America
    • New York
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
          • Midtown
            • 42nd Street and Madison Avenue
              • Baxter Building
      • Adirondack Mountains (First appearance)
        • Doctor Doom's Castle (First appearance)

Items:

• Doctor Doom's Armor (First appearance)
• Fantasti-Flare
• Doctor Doom's Time Platform (First appearance)
• Stones of Merlin (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• Doctor Doom's Helicopter (First appearance)
  
  

Synopsis for "Prisoners of Dr. Doom!"

This story is a reprint of the comic
Fantastic Four #5.

Part 1:

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Johnny, while reading an issue of The Incredible Hulk, compares Ben to the monster.[Continuity 1] Ben grabs the comic, but Johnny sets it afire. Reed and Sue stop them before they come to blows. The lights go out, despite their emergency generator. Doctor Doom, in a helicopter, drops a net over the Baxter Building. When Doom calls out to them, Reed recognizes the voice: Victor von Doom, an old college classmate. After an experiment at university, during which Doom tried to communicate with the dead but instead caused an explosion, he was expelled.[Continuity 2] Doom demands Sue as a hostage, and she agrees, going to the roof.

Part 2

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Doom takes the Invisible Girl aboard his ship, binding and gagging her. He then demands the rest of the FF must enter his ship and pledge not to attack him. The Thing agrees to this by sending off a flare. Doom lowers a cage over Reed, Ben, and Johnny and takes them to his castle. Once there, he tells them that he has invented a time machine and that they must retrieve Blackbeard's treasure chest from the past. With Sue as Doom's hostage, they must agree. Doom presses a button, activating the time platform they were unwittingly standing on. They appear in a port, where they come across two brigands arguing over a stolen bundle of clothes. Ben scares them off. With the clothes, they disguise themselves, including a heavy black beard for Ben. Looking for someone in Blackbeard's crew,[Continuity 3] they go to a tavern. Two pirates tell the barmaid to serve the strangers drugged grog.[Continuity 4]

Part 3

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Reed, Ben, and Johnny wake up in the hold of a pirate ship. Ben bursts through the deck and subdues the entire crew with the help of Johnny and Reed. When another ship appears, Ben takes command and orders his crew to attack![Continuity 5]

Part 4

<img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/a/a9/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_5_Part_4_Title.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20161016211639" alt="Fantastic Four Vol 1 5 Part 4 Title" class="thumbimage " data-image-key="Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_5_Part_4_Title.jpg" data-image-name="Fantastic Four Vol 1 5 Part 4 Title.jpg" width="180" height="71" ><img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/24/Benjamin_Grimm_%28Earth-616%29_from_Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_4_0001.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/180?cb=20191008052441" alt="Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616) from Fantastic Four Vol 1 4 0001" class="thumbimage " data-image-key="Benjamin_Grimm_%28Earth-616%29_from_Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_4_0001.jpg" data-image-name="Benjamin Grimm (Earth-616) from Fantastic Four Vol 1 4 0001.jpg" width="180" height="175" > Johnny flames on, harasses the other ship, and raises a cloud of steam. Reed stretches to the other ship like a gangplank, over which their crew passes. A quick fight ensues. While Reed and Johnny haul a treasure chest out of the hold, the crew hails Ben as Blackbeard. Reed empties the chest, reminding Johnny that they only promised to bring back Blackbeard's chest, not the treasure itself, and he replaces the treasure with chains.[Continuity 6] On deck, they realize that Ben is the Blackbeard of legend. He refuses to return with them, ordering the crew to douse Johnny, wrap Reed in a sail, and set them adrift in a lifeboat. Before they can launch the boat, though, a huge waterspout strikes the ship and destroys it. Reed and Johnny make it to shore, where they find Ben and the chest.

Part 5

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The time platform appears above them and returns them to the present. Doom says that the treasure includes gems enchanted by Merlin and that they will make him "invincible." He opens the chest and discovers that he's been cheated, which gives Ben the opportunity to attack. A single punch shatters the armor—and the machinery inside. It's a robot! The real Doom, in another part of the castle, activates a screen and tells them he will draw the air from their chamber. Sue, still his hostage, sees her chance. She turns invisible and short-circuits his control panel, which explodes. Doom is caught in the blast. She runs to the chamber and opens the door. Rather than confront Doom, who Reed assumes has traps everywhere, they decide to escape. Reed stretches through a window across the moat, Ben pushes that section of wall open while Reed pulls, and Johnny uses "atomic heat" to make a path across the crocodile-infested moat. Johnny then sets fire to the castle, and Doom escapes with his Rocket-Powered Flying Harness. Before he can catch Doom, Johnny's flame runs out.[Continuity 7]

Appearing in "Pin-Ups"

Featured Characters

• The Human Torch
• Mr. Fantastic
• Invisible Girl
• Thing
• Alicia Masters
  
  

Synopsis for "Pin-Ups"

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Appearing in "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!"

Featured Characters:

• The Fantastic Four

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• <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Thing <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" >

Supporting Characters:

• 
  

Antagonists:

• Doctor Doom (See chronology)
• Rama-Tut (See chronology)

Other Characters:

• Gorzenko, Latverian Embassador

Locations:

• Jupiter
• New York City
  • Manhattan
    • Baxter Building
    • Latverian Embassy
    • Central Park

Items:

• Doctor Doom's Armor
• Encephalo-Gun (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• Fantasti-Car
  
  

Synopsis for "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!"

While the FF deal with some troubles with the Fantasti-Car, Dr. Doom is rescued from deep space by the time-traveling Rama-Tut. Conversing, they somehow illogically theorize that Rama-Tut is perhaps a future version of Dr. Doom. Inspired all the same, Rama-Tut returns Doom to Earth while the ersatz pharaoh resumes his wanderings[1].

Back on Earth, Doom reaches the Latverian embassy and begins formulating a trap. With the FF unaware that Doom is really the ruler of Latveria, he invites them to a party, putting a drug in their drinks to make them see illusions. He tricks each of them into thinking they're being attacked by the others, before they eventually realize his machinations.

Regrouping, the team battles at their headquarters. Reed offers Doom a chance to destroy him, providing Victor can use a mentally-powered weapon against Richards before Reed can do likewise. As the contest begins, Reed offers Doom one last drink. Engaging the device, Doom believes he destroys Richards and departs the Baxter Building triumphantly. However, Reed has given Doom a taste of his own medicine, by drugging him with his own hallucinogen.

Notes

Continuity Notes

The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom!

• The portions of this story that occur in the present take place after "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!" in this issue.

• This story expands on the origins of Doctor Doom that were first told in Fantastic Four #5. There have since been more expansions in Fantastic Four #278, and Books of Doom #1-6.

• Doom's tribe is identified as the Zifero Clan in Books of Doom #1.

• Based on the time frame referenced in Dark Avengers #2, a rough placement of Doom's birth can be made. At the time of this issue was published Doom was likely born 39 years prior to this story.[2]

• Books of Doom #1 places Doom's around 11 years old when his father died.

• This story states that the ruler that Werner von Doom went to go and treat was a "Baron", but is later identified in Fantastic Four #278 as King Vladimir Fortunov. Books of Doom #1 clarifies that his wife was dying of cancer.

• Marvel Graphic Novel #49 confirms that the King's men killed Victor's mother, Cynthia von Doom, but this was after she made a pact with Mephisto to strike at the King's army for their persecution of her people over the years. The spell slew an entire town of people, including children.

• Books of Doom #1 contradicts this story, stating that it was a representative of the United States Army who came to recruit Victor. In this story Doom is taken on to invent new weapons of the American military and that his attendance at State University was merely a cover.

• Further while most versions of Doom's origins state that Doom simply refused to share a room with anyone, Books of Doom #2 state that the military provided him with his own private room and a private lab for him to work from while at State.

• Doom's obsession with contacting the "netherworld" was due to the fact that his mother's soul was trapped in Hell, as first revealed in Astonishing Tales #8 while that and Books of Doom #2 show a more biblical type devil, Marvel Graphic Novel #49 verifies that the demon who had Cynthia's soul was Mephisto.

• For years Doom lamented over the damage done to his face from the explosion, making it sound as though he was horribly disfigured. However Fantastic Four #278 reveals that he only received a single scar that ran down his face. It was not until he placed the burning hot mask on his face was his countenance horribly burned.

• Books of Doom #4-6 go into more detail about Doom's time with the monks, and his overthrow of the Latverian monarch, ending in the death of King Vladimir.

The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!

• The events in this story take place between Fantastic Four #30 and 31.

• Doctor Doom was lost in space following his defeat at the hands of the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four #23

• Rama-Tut appears here following his defeat at the hands of the Fantastic Four in Fantastic Four #19. It was later revealed that the time storm that prevented Rama-Tut from returning home was caused by Immortus, his future self, as revealed in Avengers #269. This was done to assure that Rama-Tut would eventually become Immortus.

• Rama-Tut's assertion that he and Doctor Doom may be the same man from different points in history does not match the established origin of Rama-Tut in Fantastic Four #19. This was later revealed as an early deception by Rama-Tut to manipulate Doctor Doom as explained in Avengers: Forever #8 Although they may be related as What If? Vol 2 #39 states that Tut may have a common ancestor of either Reed Richards or Doctor Doom.

• This encounter with Doctor Doom later inspired Rama-Tut to become the Scarlet Centurion as seen in Avengers Annual #2. He became Kang later still as seen in Avengers #8.

• Doom was tricked into believing that he had killed Reed Richards, however the deception was revealed to him in Fantastic Four #39.

Chronology Notes

Events happen behind the scenes in this issue that affect the chronologies of the following characters:

Doctor Doom:

• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Flashback
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 2 Panel 5-Page 3, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor von Doom is present when his father is hired by the King to cure his wife of cancer.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 4, Panel 1-5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor's father fails, the two flee into the mountains.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 4, Panel 6-Page 5, Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - The pair are found the next day by Bori, brought back to camp. Werner dies of exposure, Victor swears revenge.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor inherits his father's belongings
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor discovers his mother's trunk of mystical artifacts.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor begins experimenting with sorcery.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 6-Page 7, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor uses his skills to rip off and battle with the local government.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 7, Panel 5-Page 8, Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor is approached to come to the USA to learn at State University.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor flies to the United States.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor von Doom meets Reed Richards for the first time.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 5-6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed and Victor contemplate being roommates, Victor takes an instant dislikings to Richards.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 7-Page 9, Panel 1 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor decides to get a room of his own, has his first brush with Ben Grimm.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 9, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor begins practicing sorcery in his room.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Pagge 9, Panel 4-5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor catches Reed going over his notes.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 9, Panel 6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor ignores Reed's warnings.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 9, Panel 7 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor attempts to run his machine to contact the netherworld.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 1-2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor sits in the machine and it blows up in his face.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor is expelled from State University.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor curses his facial scars.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor ventures to the Himalayan mountains to find an ancient order of monks.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor is found by the monks and brought to their temple.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 10, Panel 7 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor is healed by the monks becomes their leader.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 11, Panel 1-5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Victor constructs his armor and puts it on for the first time.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 11, Panel 6-7 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Doctor Doom begins making inventions to help him conquer Latveria.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 12, Panel 1 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Doctor Doom flies home to conquer his homeland.
• The Final Victory of Doctor Doom:
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 1-6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Doctor Doom is rescued by Rama-Tut.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 6-25 - Doom returns to Earth, is defeated by the Fantastic Four.
• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Present Day:
  • Page 1-2, Panel 4 & Page 12 Panel 3-7 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" >

Reed Richards:

• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Flashback:
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed meets Victor for the first time.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 5-6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed and Victor attempt to room together, Victor decides to get a room of his own.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 8, Panel 7-Page 9, Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed meets Ben Grimm for the first time, the two become roommates.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 9, Panels 4-5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed discovers Victor's notes and finds a miscalculation, is caught.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 9, Panel 6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Reed's warnings fall on deaf ears.

Boris:

• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Flashback
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 2 Panel 5-Page 3, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Boris is present when the King's men come for Werner von Doom.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 4, Panel 6-Page 5 Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Boris finds Victor and Werner in the mountains. Brings them back to camp.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Boris gives Victor his father's possessions.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 5, Panel 6-Page 7, Panel 4 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Boris witnesses Doom fight back against the ruling class.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 7, Panel 5-Page 8, Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Boris is present when Victor is invited to study at State University.
• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Present Day:
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 1-5 & 12 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" >

Werner von Doom:

• The Fantastic Origin of Doctor Doom - Flashback
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 2, Panel 5-Page 3, Panel 3 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Werner is enlisted to save the queen.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 3, Panel 4-Page 3, Panel 7 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Werner fails to cure the queen, the king vows revenge.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 4, Panel 1-Page 4, Panel 5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Werner flees with his son into the mountains.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 4, Panel 6-Page 5, Panel 2 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Werner dies of exposure.

Rama-Tut:

• The Final Victory of Doctor Doom:
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 1-5 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Rama-Tut rescues Doctor Doom from space.
  • <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/ca/Previous.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20140514182734" alt="Previous" class="" data-image-key="Previous.png" data-image-name="Previous.png" width="6" height="10" > Page 6 <img src="https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/c/c4/Next.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/6?cb=20110309211439" alt="Next" class="" data-image-key="Next.png" data-image-name="Next.png" width="6" height="10" > - Returns Doctor Doom to Earth, attempts to return to his own time.

Publication Notes

• The Origin of Doctor Doom! story reprinted in Bring on the Bad Guys.

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Footnotes

1. ? Avengers Annual #2
2. ? That story states that Doom's early adolescence was 37 years prior. The logic of the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616 is that four every four years of publications one year of "Marvel Time" elapses. From the perspective of Dark Avengers #2, assuming that Doom was 13 in the flashback, makes it occurring 50 years ago from that point. Dark Avengers #2 was published in September 2009 or "Year Twelve" of the Modern Age. Fantastic Four Annual #2 was published in September 1964, during "Year One" of the Modern Age. 50 - 11 = 39 Years. 

Fantastic Four Annual Vol 1 #2
PublishedSeptember, 1964

Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee
Cover Artist Jack Kirby
Sol Brodsky
Stan Goldberg
Artie Simek
 [Collapse] "Origin of Doctor Doom!" Writer Stan Lee
Penciler Jack Kirby
Inker Chic Stone
Letterer Sam Rosen
Editor Stan Lee

 [Collapse] "A Gallery of the Fantastic Four's Greatest Foes!"  [Collapse] "Prisoners of Dr. Doom!" Writer Stan Lee
Penciler Jack Kirby
Inker Joe Sinnott
Colourist Stan Goldberg
Letterer Artie Simek
Editor Stan Lee
 [Collapse] "Pin-Ups"  [Collapse] "The Final Victory of Doctor Doom!" Writer Stan Lee
Penciler Jack Kirby
Inker Chic Stone
Letterer Sam Rosen
Editor Stan Lee
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