![]() Wishing to resurrect his dead mother, Doom constructed a device that could build a portal to Hell, intended to communicate with the dead and allow him to free her soul. On his arrival, Doom had a fateful meeting with Reed Richards, the only man on the planet whose intelligence could even approach Doom's, to whom he took an immediate dislike. Word of his exploits attracted a sponsorship from the US Government, who perhaps in an aim to subvert the Latverian government and build up a new client in Eastern Europe, offered the dashing young rebel an opportunity to study in America. As a teenager, he became a Romani guerrilla revolutionary, building gadgets of unusual sophistication, subverting and dodging the Latverian government and its secret police, protecting his community and always being a step ahead of everyone. Sympathetic to his father's scientific bent and his mother's mystical bent, Doom began to combine both from an early age and sought to master both magic and technology. On his father's death, Victor came across his parents' effects, and found a trunk of artifacts belonging to his mother that included her occult books and instruments. Werner was frozen protecting Victor from the elements and after being rescued died shortly after. His father Werner, years later, was summoned to treat the nephew of the Baron, and when the nephew couldn't be saved, Werner was blamed, and father and son were chased out of home, often travelling in harsh conditions. ![]() In her quest for revenge against Latverian soldiers, his mother made a deal for power with Mephisto, but her actions backfired and her use of magic led the people of a village to burn her for being a witch, with Cynthia's soul damned to hell. His community was persecuted by the aristocratic regime of Latveria, which played a part in getting Victor orphaned. Doom was introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in The Fantastic Four #5 (July, 1962) as the Arch-Enemy of the Fantastic Four.ĭoom was born in the Fictional Country of Latveria, the son of Romani witch Cynthia Von Doom and a medical doctor named Werner von Doom. Marvel's Most Diabolical Despot.ĭoctor Victor Von Doom, better known as Doctor Doom, is a Marvel Universe supervillain that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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