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Suddenly... The Shroud!
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Today sees the beginning of Minor Appearances Month, during which we'll be covering a very interesting period for Doctor Doom. Over the next three weeks (there isn't a word for "three weeks" and "Minor Appearances Month" sounds better anyway!) we'll be covering about two years' worth of comics in which the mainstream universe's version of Doctor Doom does not appear in person at all. He'll pop up in flashbacks, alternate universes and advertisements, but he'll stay out of the ongoing storyline for the entire time. This means that when he does come back it'll be a pretty big deal, but we've got a lot to get through before then!
Fittingly, Minor Appearances Month kicks off with an EXTREMELY minor appearance in a story which spends most of its time following Jessica Drew (AKA Spider-Woman) as she tries to get a job. It's not particularly exciting, but it does look lovely thanks to the pencils of Carmine Infantino, who gives the whole thing a very glamorous look, reminiscent of the Spanish artists who used to draw UK girls' romance comics.
Eventually she bumps into The Shroud, which gives him a chance to re-tell is origin from Super-Villain Team-Up, featuring a one-panel appearance by Doom.
That isn't quite how I remember the story going, but I guess if you're telling your origin story you're not going to say "I let some dogs shove him off a cliff" are you?
That's the lot for today's minor appearance - tomorrow we take a trip into the alternative universes of "What If?" where Doom not only gets to speak, but also appears on the cover!
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posted 20/11/2019 by Mark Hibbett
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