Prisoners Of Doctor Doom!: Doctor Doom has decided it’s time to prove to the Fantastic Four that only he has the power to defeat them. He departs on this mission, in a helicopter. Miles...  

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Part 2: Back To The Past!: Doctor Doom’s next demand is that the remaining three board his aircraft, and they must swear not to attack him. They agree, and are carried up into the craft, in...  

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Part 3: On The Trail Of Blackbeard: Reed, Ben and Johnny wake up in the musty hold of a pirate ship. Up on deck, two pirates are arguing over which one of them is in command, when The Thing breaks...  

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Part 4: Battle!: First up: The Human Torch! Johnny flies over to the opposing ship, to soften up the pirates, for his team and crew. The pirates think he’s a flaming demon, and as...  

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Part 5: The Vengeance Of Doctor Doom!: The chrono-square component of the Doom Time-Machine appears above Mister Fantastic, The Thing and the Human Torch. They hold still, while it descends down them,...  

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First appearance of Dr. Doom.

In the later more elaborated origin stories from Fantastic Four Annual #2 and Fantastic Four #278, it will be revealed that Doctor Doom’s only real dependence upon the mask, is merely an issue of vanity. Many a mirror will pay the ultimate price, for showing him his own repugnant image. The mask itself added to his disfigurement, as it was applied to his face by the Tibetan monks who served him, red-hot, straight from the kiln, at his own insistence. So, in addition to the original disfigurement, there is an inverted brand of the mask, etched into his face.