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This story sees Doctor Doom trying to destroy Spider-man in a world similar, but not quite the same, to the regular Marvel Universe ... which is eerily similar to the story we looked at last time, over in the newspaper strips.
However, where that version of Doom was fairly similarly to the mainstream one, the Doom appearing in Spidey Super Stories is more in line with the characterisation given to him by Luis Avalos on the Super Spidey Stories album i.e. decidedly camp, right from the expanded version of his origin story on the inside cover.
It seems strange that the origin concentrates on Latveria, as that has nothing to do with the story and isn't mentioned again. Instead we see Doom using a Mirror to make an evil copy of Spider-man called Web-man who "will have all of Spidey's powers... but none of Spidey's goodness."
Web-man jumps out of Doom's Twin Machine and flies off into action... only to slam into a wall, leading Doom to slap his forehead in loving despair.
I wish they'd made an audio version of this one too, Luis Avalos would have killed that line!
Web-man tries to rob an armoured car and is stopped by the real Spider-man, at which point a Big Fight breaks out. When Web-man runs off Spidey follows him, all the way back to the original mirror room, enabling Doom to create another twin - Webby 2!
As is always the case with Spidey Super Stories, there's a weird dream-like logic to the whole thing, which continues as Spider-man simply jumps through the mirror, into the next door room where he captures Doom.
His two creations disappear, leaving Spider-man to finish off the story with the punchline:
And that's the lot. It's a very simple, very easy to read story - certified as such by The Easy Reader AKA Morgan Freeman - which sees this version of Doom deviating somewhat from the norm slightly by behaving like a camp mad scientist. There's more to come from Doom in the Spidey Super Stories universe so it'll be interesting to see if he stays that way, but next time we're back to the regular comics to see Doom at his most scheming!
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posted 25/9/2019 by Mark Hibbett
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wow i love this dc comic
posted 1/4/2021 by batman from marvel
Do not question DOOM's plans!
posted 25/6/2022 by DOOM