WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
first Doctor Doom
- Doctor Doom (Victor Von Doom) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- July 1962
- On sale
- April 10, 1962
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Original edition12¢ coverSource ↗
- UK pence edition9d [0-0-9 GBP] cover
British
Printed cover price 9d [0-0-9 GBP].
This edition’s page
Fantastic Four No. 5 Facsimile Edition (2025). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.
Creators
Stories
- Prisoners of Doctor Doom! Part 1 · 5 pages
Doctor Doom takes the Invisible Girl hostage to insure her teammates' obedience.
- Part 2 Back to the Past! · 5 pages
Doctor Doom brings the Fantastic Four to his castle stronghold in the USA. There he sends the Torch, the Thing and Mr. Fantastic back in time to retrieve the pirate Blackbeard's treasure.
- Part 3 On the Trail of Blackbeard · 3 pages
The Thing takes command of a sailing ship in the era of the pirate Blackbeard.
- Part 4 Battle! · 5 pages
The Thing takes on the role of Blackbeard the Pirate and wishes to remain in the past.
- Part 5 The Vengeance of Doctor Doom! · 5 pages
Doom tries to kill the Fantastic Four when they return from the past, but Invisible Girl saves them. Doom escapes with his jetpack.
Characters
Reprinted in
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2003), Fantastic Four Omnibus (2005), Fantastic Four Annual (1963), The Mighty World of Marvel (1972), Bring on the Bad Guys: Origins of the Marvel Comics Villains (1976), Bring on the Bad Guys: Origins of the Marvel Comics Villains (1976), Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four (1977), The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985), Marvel Masterworks (1987), The Very Best of Marvel Comics (1991), Marvel Milestone Edition: Fantastic Four #5 (1992), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (1997), Essential Fantastic Four (1998), Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2009), Marvel's Mightiest Heroes (2014), Fantastic Four Epic Collection (2014), True Believers: Fantastic Four vs. Doctor Doom (2018), Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four (2021), Fantastic Four (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (2023), Fantastic Four No. 5 Facsimile Edition (2025)