| Posted: 11 April 2013 at 1:29pm | IP Logged | 5
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When I was doing FANTASTIC FOUR I took the opportunity to blend together the "two versions" of Doctor Doom. Stan's, the established version, where Doom's face is pretty much blown off, and Jack's, the version that wasn't used, where Victor has only a tiny scar, and his ego drives him to believe his face is "destroyed".Since it had been pretty thoroughly established that Doom's face was a horrible mess under his mask, I got the two disparate parts to fit together by having his face bear only a small scar until (as previously established) those monks put the mask on while it was still blazing hot. What I didn't know, when I did my story, was that a writer who had worked previously at Marvel had used the "small scar" bit for a minor villain at DC. So, of course, I was swamped with letters from fans who knew nothing about Kirby's original conception of Doom, and accused me of "ripping off" the DC character. sigh
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