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Doctor Doom Survey

As you may be aware, this blog is being written as part of the research for my PhD thesis, which is (currently!) called "Doctor Doom In The Marvel Age: An Empirical Approach To Transmedia Character Coherence". I'm trying to read through every appearance by Doctor Doom in all narrative media from his first appearance in Fantastic Four #5 up until Thor #383, the last comic with Doom in it with Jim Shooter as editor-in-chief. I wrote a (rather long-winded) explanation of why those are the dates when I began all this a couple of years ago, but the short version is that that's what I'm calling "The Marvel Age".

The reason for reading them is to help me find out who Doctor Doom "is", as much as a fictional character really "is" anybody. Part of my methodology is to generate an empirical approach to this, so that it can be re-done for other characters, and as part of all that I'm doing an online survey to try and find out what other people think Doom's core characteristics are. Hopefully this will be a way to get a starting list for his characteristics that doesn't just rely on my own ideas of who Doom is, as well as maybe pointing me in the direction of some aspects I haven't noticed before.

I'd be very grateful to anybody who wishes to take part - the link to the survey is here:

http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/doom/survey/

It's completely anonymous, but you can also leave your email address at the end (unlinked to the main survey) to get updates on how it all goes if you'd like. It should only take about twenty minutes to complete, and is very much Not A Test - I'm as interested in finding out what aspects of Doctor Doom people don't know about as the aspects they do!

The more responses I can get for this the better, so do feel free to share this with other people who might be interested!

posted 1/4/2020 by Mark Hibbett

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