WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
first Doctor Doom
Dates
- Cover date
- May 1998
- On sale
- March 4, 1998
- Pages
- 38
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #5 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition
Direct Edition
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Barcode 75960604456600511
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07447002462005
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Creators
pencils: Salvador Larrocainks: Art Thibertcolors: Liquid!script: Scott Lobdell, Chris Claremont, Stan Leeletters: Albert Deschesne, Comicraft, Richard Starkings
Stories
- Broken Reed · 24 pages
Reed and Ben head for Stockholm to attend an international symposium of physicists, with Reed's friend Alyssa Moy. Crucible attacks. Reed notices a resemblance between Crucible and Doctor Doom. Crucible steals Reed's rationality and mental talents for himself.
Reprinted in
Fantastic Four: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection (2019)