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Fantastic Four: Books of Doom Hardcover – January 1, 2006

by Ed Brubaker (Author), Pablo Raimondi (Illustrator), Mark Farmer (Illustrator),
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Five-time Eisner-nominated Best Writer Ed Brubaker turns his shadowy vision to Marvel's greatest villain, Victor Von Doom. With the phenomenal art team of Pablo Raimondi and Mark Farmer, you will witness Doom's life from his earliest moments to the day he took the throne of Latveria. A dark and revealing examination of how an innocent boy grows up to be a tyrant - a new twist on an old legend - Books of Doom is a sweeping epic of tragedy, madness and destiny! Collects Books of Doom #1-6.
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    Fantastic Four: Books of Doom
  2. Print length
    144 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Marvel Enterprises
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2006
  6. Dimensions
    7 x 0.75 x 10.75 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0785122710
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0785122715
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel Enterprises (January 1, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785122710
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785122715
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 10.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 230 ratings

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Matt Fraction

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MATT FRACTION writes comic books out in the woods and lives with his wife, the writer Kelly Sue DeConnick, his two children, two dogs, a cat, a bearded dragon, and a yard full of coyotes and stags. Surely there is a metaphor there? He is 42 years old and everyone he went to high school with is dead now probably.

He won the first-ever PEN USA Literary Award for Graphic Novels; he, or comics he's a part of, have won Eisners, Harveys, and Eagles, which are like the Oscars, Emmys, and Golden Globes of comic books, and all seem about as likely. He's a New York Times-best-selling donkus of comics like SEX CRIMINALS (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best New Series, the 2014 Harvey Award for Best New Series, and named TIME Magazine's Best Comic of 2013), SATELLITE SAM, ODY-C, HAWKEYE (winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Single Issue), wrote the longest consecutive run when re relaunced THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (2010 Eiser Award winner for Best New Series) with Salvador Larocca and, oh, lordy, so many more.

Coming in 2018 will be ADVENTUREMAN! with Terry and Rachel Dodson and NOVEMBER with Elsa Charretier from Image Comics.

Under their company Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc., Fraction and DeConnick are currently developing television for NBC/Universal.

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Peppercorn
5.0 out of 5 stars The Monarch iron clad fisted ruler retold in all his metal and steel glory of his armoured origin by an investgative media!
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010
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This is a novel that will exceed any hard core Doom fans hopes. It's not for the faint hearted its six issues completely dedicated to Dr.Doom. Five time nominated best writer Brubaker turns his shadowy vision to Marvel's greatest villain, Victor Von Doom. Phenomenal art team of Pablo Raimondi and Mark Farmer you will be witness to Doom's life from his earliest moments to the day he took the throne of Latveria. A revealing examination of how an innocent boy grows up to be a cruel tyrant, of oppression in a new twist on old legend,retold this book is a sweeping epic of tragedy, madness and destiny. Victor Von Doom has always been one of the most fascinating and outstanding villains in the Marvel universe but now he tells us his story. This is a prequel into the man behind the mask and that led him on towards his dark path to alleged tyranny and all round super genius of science. This book is more to the point of view in a documentary,rather than a historic retelling of an investigative journalistic piece about the legend of the man who is Victor Von Doom. A must read for all comic fan this is one of the best pieces of literature that I've ever read. If you are a comic fan in any sort of field you must read this book. FANTASTIC FOUR: BOOKS OF DOOM is an in-depth retelling of the origin of Fantastic Four's main arch-nemesis, Victor von doctor Doom. Following the leads provided in over 40 years of stories, Brubaker actually does a good job of integrating all the little bits and pieces that other writers have laid out on Doctor Doom's fascinating history over the years, and it certainly provides us with the closest firsthand look at the dictator of Latveria himself von doom. This same extra of this book gives it an odd, sort of quality, feel to it as though it's story is told by Doom himself through an investigative media in which it is something far too personal for the guarded megalomaniac to share with the rest of the world and his people. But by the end of the story, you realize exactly why Doom would be so open to his life story with this person that youll' definitely not want to miss reading out in about and because of this He has the same over-the-top high-and-mighty speech patterns, the same florid melodramatic way with words in threats that any other high and mighty super villian has it's just that he uses a lot more clearer in exclamation points for getting his point out across to others lot clearer. Anyway, Doom doesn't need to get his message across the room with all his advanced state of the art technology that he has got such as his death-ray, and time machine. It's also clear that Books Of Doom draws on material from previous comics that have come out before such as the Super-Villain Team-Up to flesh and bring out his origin; little more mature for readers in the end of the character,which finally collates and puts together a high-and-mighty fascinating retelling story of lavteria's one and only nasty cruel armoured tyrant in the end called: doctor victor von doom.
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Eric Shoars
5.0 out of 5 stars Ed Brubaker hits another one out of the park with this origin of Dr. Doom!
Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2017
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Dr. Doom has always been my favorite comic book villain because he rises above the clichéd bad guy. He has a nobility, a mission, and there are his non-compromising standards. He was remained rock solid in his beliefs and his vision. I had no idea this story was out there until recent talk about FOX doing a Dr. Doom movie and people online stating the movie should be based upon this story. I sought it out, bought it, and read it in one sitting. It is tremendous. Ed Brubaker is one of my favorite writers whether it was his run on Captain America where he brought back Bucky or the X-MEN where he revealed there was a second team of X-MEN that had been kept secret that led to the fall of the Shiar empire. Brubaker not only respects the history of the characters, he adds DEPTH to stories giving us greater insights to what make the characters tick. He challenges us in our beliefs of who and what we think of situations and then shows us there's more to the story than we know.

Brubaker has done no less for Dr. Doom. I thought it would be impossible to add more depth, more mythology to Dr. Doom and I was happily wrong. Brubaker gives us a tragic side to Dr. Doom far beyond what we could have imagined while adding to Doom' nobility, not decreasing it. Do yourself a favor and get this. I bought the Kindle version and read it on my iPad. It is beautifully formatted so you lose nothing in the translation of a print book versus the digital version. Cannot say enough good things about this book.
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Tasty Aids
5.0 out of 5 stars simply amazing
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2023
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the story telling is compeling, you can sense how Doom’s ego constantly growths. The end is what wraps everything just perfectly. I really enjoyed this one, same as Kang’s story. Villains you cannot help but love
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023
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Elegant storytelling. Brubaker does it again! He brings a depth and humanity to Von Doom, as he does with every character he pens. If you're a fan of the Fantastic Four villain, or just a fan of well crafted narrative and compelling, relatable tales, this is for you.
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Matt Gerrish
5.0 out of 5 stars Badass villain origin story
Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2021
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This blew me away, Victor Von Doom going from an ostracized kid, to a genius in science, then to a magic user with unhackable tech, and finally to the ruler of his own country! You can't make a villain more badass than that!
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Richard Girard
5.0 out of 5 stars No One Questions This Review!
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2018
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Absolutely stunning. A brilliantly crafted origin of the greatest super villain of all time. A glimpse into the circumstances that helped to shape Doom and the best use of narrative I’ve ever seen to capture his perspective. If you love villains than this is a must read.
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ravl13
3.0 out of 5 stars A character study of Doom
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2011
This collection of issues is the origin tale of Doom, and gives a look at his thinking process and driving force. There is not a lot of action in this book; It's just Doom retelling his life, and it would actually be pretty dull if I was not a huge fan of the good doctor. If you enjoy the character, I would say this book is 4 stars, but if you are not a fan of him, I could see this being two stars. So, the score is averaged out to 3.
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jeffrey l.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story.
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021
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The ultimate anti-hero in marvel comics. Whether he is a hero or villain is up to the reader to decide.
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Arhum Ahmad
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2018
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good read on the background of an iconic villain
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Big-red-cheese
4.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Doom - Die frühen Jahre
Reviewed in Germany on August 9, 2007
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Ed Brubaker schaffte es der altbekannten Entstehunggeschichte neue Aspekte abzugewinnen und neue Details hinzuzufügen. Meistenteils erzählt er die Geschichte aus der Sicht des Hauptakteurs. Er läßt aber auch Figuren aus Dooms Umkreis ein Profil des Oberschurken erstellen. In weiten Teilen gelungene Neuinterpretation eines alten Charakters, der auch sehr von den guten Zeichnunngen von Pablo Raimondi lebt. Ein echter Genuss sind die im TPB enthaltenen Titelbilder.

Allgemein recht lesenswert.
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T. West
4.0 out of 5 stars A Marvel Legend Given A Well-Earned Dust Down.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 7, 2007
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Books of Doom has provided me with two things; first, a tangible account of his origins in one glorious volume, and second, a graphic novel about Doctor Doom, and barely anyone else. I'm grateful enough for these reasons alone, but for it to be well adapted for the modern age while still retaining important details (no Victor Van Damme here) there was evidence enough for me to buy it on sight.

The story takes in the magical dealings of his mother, his family's problems with the Baron, the scholarship to America, meeting Reed Richards, the accident and its aftermath, the time in tibet and the revolution against the Baron, and nothing collides into anything else, we move fluidly along the timeline as the story slowly builds. The wilderness between his disgrace in America and his convalescence is particularly compelling.

The writing and characterisation are pretty spot on, and the colours are vivid and give the alpine nation of Latveria an aura of beauty. Most of the line work is diligently worked out, although Victor's pre-accident look isn't as consistent as i'd like, despite his growth from child to student. This is forgivable as the dark glare is present from his early days, and Raimondo goes with a swarthy, slavic mien rather than the lantern-jawed teutonic of earlier incarnations, while still having that look of iron determinancy. The mask is pretty much the original sixties number, with a little more detail. His endearing arrogance remains unaltered as well, and by the end just stops short of referring to himself in the third person.

I'd recommend this to Marvelites everywhere and a must for subjects of Latveria's favourite son.
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D. Quarm
3.0 out of 5 stars Average
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2017
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A reworking of the classic Von Doom origin story, but appears well dated with its depiction of semi feudal Latvaria. The ending was apt.
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Wheelz McGee
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2015
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Big DOOM fan, so no brainer.
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