Doctor Doom

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Doctor Doom is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the character first appeared in The Fantastic Four #5 (cover dated July 1962), with his full origin story following two years later in Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964). Shortly after his creation, Doom became the archenemy of the Fantastic Four and one of Marvel's most widely used villains, appearing across titles including The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Daredevil within his first decade. Doctor Doom is the self-proclaimed moniker of Victor Werner von Doom, the monarch of the fictional European country of Latveria. Born to a Latverian healer and a Romani witch, Doom is a master of both science and sorcery, and seeks to bring order to humanity through world domination and prove his intellectual superiority over Mister Fantastic—his old college rival and the leader of the Fantastic Four—whom he blames for his disfigurement...

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