Doctor Doom Epic Collection: Enter...Doctor Doom

by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby (Illustrator)

488 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2025

About the author

Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is good but a bit of a slog. You can see how Lee and Kirby worked and reworked the character. The earlier issues start with the repetitive troupe of luring the FF4 into a death trap. It’s gets old and boring. Thankfully things changed with the FF4 Annual 2. Finally Doom’s backstory is established as is Latveria and we’re off to the races. Doom is my favorite Maeve villain and this collection is great to have, even with the forgettable early issues. You can how the creators worked to define the character and meet deadlines of writing new stories for multiple books. It’s an impressive accomplishment.

[Julia Pika · Rating 4 out of 5]

The funniest thing to me is how Dr. Doom is just "Haha Reed, I'm so much smarter than you, I KNEW you would escape from that trap so I devised a second trap. I also knew you would escape from the second trap so I set up a third trap. I knew you would escape from the third trap so I--"