1. Zigging when DC zags: Every time that I read this, I keep on thinking that Stan and Jack must have had Lex Luthor's origin in mind. A lot of what early MARVEL did was about differentiating their heroes from DC's : DC heroes live in fictional cities (Gotham, Metropolis, etc), ours live in a real city (New York); DC heroes keep their identities private, well, some of ours don't (the FF); DC heroes are trusted by the public, take a look at Spider-Man, etc.Here, we see a kind of MARVEL version of Luthor's origin. However, instead of baldness turning a potential good guy bad, here it's grotesque facial scarring.
2. Brevity is the soul of wit: Man, I can't get over how much that two pros like Stan and Jack could convey in such a handful of pages. A modern writer-artist team would take a 12 issue miniseries to tell the same amount of story.
2. Brevity is the soul of wit: Man, I can't get over how much that two pros like Stan and Jack could convey in such a handful of pages. A modern writer-artist team would take a 12 issue miniseries to tell the same amount of story.
"Where the hell is Latveria supposed to be, anyway?"
I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
As for the much-debated location of Durmstrang (J. K. Rowling herself has been extremely coy on the subject, other than establishing that it serves a multinational student body and placing it vaguely in former Soviet-bloc/Universal Pictures horror-movie territory--what TV Tropes terms "Uberwald"), my own hypothesis is that the school's defenses include mobility: every so often, the building will hoist itself up on its chicken legs and go lurching off to new territory.
This story does show the back of Doom`s head with his usual mop of brown hair, but in general, you are right... early stories did show the unmasked Doom with a hairless, chewed up looking head.
(Another example of Darth Vader getting some inspiration from Doom, by the way.)
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1. Zigging when DC zags: Every time that I read this, I keep on thinking that Stan and Jack must have had Lex Luthor's origin in mind. A lot of what early MARVEL did was about differentiating their heroes from DC's : DC heroes live in fictional cities (Gotham, Metropolis, etc), ours live in a real city (New York); DC heroes keep their identities private, well, some of ours don't (the FF); DC heroes are trusted by the public, take a look at Spider-Man, etc.Here, we see a kind of MARVEL version of Luthor's origin. However, instead of baldness turning a potential good guy bad, here it's grotesque facial scarring.
2. Brevity is the soul of wit: Man, I can't get over how much that two pros like Stan and Jack could convey in such a handful of pages. A modern writer-artist team would take a 12 issue miniseries to tell the same amount of story.
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- It IS astonishing. Man!
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I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
As for the much-debated location of Durmstrang (J. K. Rowling herself has been extremely coy on the subject, other than establishing that it serves a multinational student body and placing it vaguely in former Soviet-bloc/Universal Pictures horror-movie territory--what TV Tropes terms "Uberwald"), my own hypothesis is that the school's defenses include mobility: every so often, the building will hoist itself up on its chicken legs and go lurching off to new territory.
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(Another example of Darth Vader getting some inspiration from Doom, by the way.)
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