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Let Doctor Doom Tell You How To Subscribe To 4 Marvel Comics For The Price Of 3!!
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Minor Appearances Month comes to a pulse-pounding end today with yet another advert featuring Doctor Doom. We've previously seen him advertising Fun And Games Magazine and commanding readers to enter a Milk Duds competition, and today he's at it again, trying to sell subscriptions to Marvel comics.
As with those adverts, I found out about this thanks to the efforts of the Grand Comics Database indexers - my suspicion is that one of the people who was indexing 'The Defenders' was particularly scrupulous about what he included (they're all "he" according to the listing for this comic), and I must say I'm glad he was, otherwise I might have missed it!
The version of Doctor Doom shown in this ad isn't particularly Doom-ish - on other occasions the creators of the adverts have at least tried to make him a villain, but here he comes off more as a huckster, trying to interest us in a deal.
The Fantastic Four also seem out of character, all being keen on the idea with the exception of Reed Richards, who at least considers the idea that it might be a trap! All in all it seems like a very strange way to advertise anything. "A notorious liar and villain is saying this is a good deal, and even the superheroes have their doubts!"
If only there was some sort of topical joke I could make about this today.
And with that we draw Minor Appearances Month, and indeed the blog for this year, to a close. These blog entries have covered two whole years during which Doctor Doom made no "real" appearances in the mainstream Marvel Universe but, as we'll see when we get back into action in the new year, when he does finally return it will have been worth the wait. In the meantime - Merry Christmas everybody!
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posted 13/12/2019 by Mark Hibbett
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