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Doctor Doom

FACTRLE REAL NAME Nrtctor Von Doom OCCUPATION Monarch of Latveria BASE

Doomstadt. Latsena

HEIOHT 6 ft 2 an;

(n armor) 6 ft 7 in WEIOHT 225 to*;

(in armor) 415 Ib*

EYES Brown HAIR Brown

FIRST APPEARANCE

FanmtK Four #5 (Juty 1962)

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The Lord oj Lat v er i o

VictorVon Doom was bom in a gypsy canip in the tiny kingdom of'Latveria in the Bałkan Mountains ofEastern airopę. Victors niother, Cynthia, was kiiled when he was an infant. WhenVictor was a boy, his father Werner, a gypsy hcaler, failed to save the wifc of a Latverian baron froni dying of cancer. With Victor. Werner fled the baron s retaliation, only to perish froni exposnre.Victor vo\ved ecngeance on the world for his parents’ deaths.

SCARRED

Victor di*covered Cynthia s chest of magicdl artiłacts and reali/ed that she was a witch. He dewloped iminense talents for sort ery and also science, cvcntuaiły winning a scholarship for State U»ivcrsitv m the US It was there he first encountered tellów student Reed Richard*.

Dctcrmmed to contact lus motlier m the hcreafter,\fon I >oom mventcd an mtcrdimetisional commumcauon devicc. Richard* happened uponVon Doom* notes on the machinę and point ed out an error in his cakulations. Furiom that Richard* had invadcd his pnvacy,Von Doom rcfttscd to hcetl lus waming. WhenVon Doom aitwatcd Im machinę, it cxplodcd. \t arrmg his face.

,’ording to one account the cxpk>«on leit ily one thin scar; howewr, Doom s ego coukl not tolcrate even a single impertćction in his appcarance.)

The Metal Mask

lłlaming Ku hards for the accidem.Ybn Doom madę his way to Tibct, where an order ot* monks lielped hira forgr the metal mask and armor that he would war m his new rok* as Doctor Doom. Donning the ncwly cost nusk bcfbrc it had fully coolcd, r>ooni scartcd his face tor lito. Returnmg to l atccria. Doom oserthrew the monarth and modę lumsclf king.

Although Doom Ines in a castle and Latveria appear* mnhanged smee the I9th ccntury. he has created technologu al womlers. mcludmg a robot army and a time machinę. Doom has dedicated himsełf to world domination.As monarch of 1 atvcria, he lus diplomatic liitmumty that slnclds hini trom arrest. Ho\vever. his plans have often becn thwarted by his archnemesis Kecd Richard* aiui the Famastk Fckjr. Over tlie years Doom has dashed ssith mam leading coscumed crimefightcrs PS

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