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The Comics Should Be Good blog at CBR has been doing a series on "meta-messages" in comics; issues where writers included scenes in response to something another creator did with the same characters (i.e., usually retconning or addressing what they saw as out-of-character moments).

Two of them have been Doom-focused so far: John Byrne responding to Chris Claremont letting Arcade disrespect Doom without consequences (possibly the first, and certainly the most famous, case of the "It was all a Doombot," retcon), and Dwayne McDuffie's response to Steve Englehart's infamous "Where's my money, honey?" issue of Hero For Hire (Englehart was a big one for rejecting the idea of Doom having an honour code and writing him indulging in every vice possible).

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This is a post I've been meaning to make for a while, but I was waiting on getting hold of some comics, and also, Marvel has been keeping this comm busy with a flood of high quality Doom appearances. (Long may it continue!) But now I've had the chance to get my scans together, I present a little bit of a Marvel universe history lesson.

Scan from: Fantastic Four Annual #2 (Stan Lee/Jack Kirby)

Scan from: Fantastic Four Annual #2 (Stan Lee/Jack Kirby)

Doom's origin is sadly not as well known as it could be, since adaptations like the movies and the Ultimate comics have a bad tendency to chop the whole thing out to avoid bringing magic into the story. That really does his character a great disservice, since not only is magic an important part of Doom's powerset, but it's his backstory that makes it so impressive and even semi-sympathetic that he became the supervillain we know today.

( The epic history of Victor Von Doom )