Recommended (mostly comic book) reading guide for Doom/Reed v2, text version & some details behind cut:
=DoomReed ship reading guide v2.0=
1960’s-80’s (Lee & Kirby thru deFalco):
Fantastic Four #5 (Doom’s first appearance ever in comics! and his reunion w/ Reed)
Fantastic Four #10 (kidnap & bodyswap)
Fantastic Four Annual #2 (Doom’s full origin story, including the Incident In College)
Fantastic Four #196-200 (intense arc, ends w/ their first very… physical fight)
Fantastic Four #236
Fantastic Four #260 & #288
Fantastic Four #381 & Fantastic Four Unlimited #12 (+ Fantastic Four Unplugged #2) (the DeFalco suicide pact arc, which is very wild and very intense)
Fantastic Four #352 (time duel story! an absolute classic)
1990’s (Heroes Reborn/Return era):
Fantastic Four v2 (1997) #5-6
Captain America v2 (1997) #12
Chris Claremont:
Fantastic Four v3 (1998) #25, #29-31 (Reed stuck in Doom’s armor, becoming more like Victor - but also emphasizes how much alike they already were)
2000’s (Mark Waid):
Fantastic Four #499 (numbered as #70) & #500 (start of the “Unthinkable” arc, which shows Victor in a bad light but is worth it for the dynamic and for how Reed is written)
Fantastic Four #503 (Reed takes over Latveria)
Fantastic Four #507 (Reed builds a pocket dimension to imprison just himself and Victor, it’s very intense honestly)
Dwayne McDuffie:
Fantastic Four #551-553
Fantastic Four Special, “My Dinner with Doom” (honestly one of the best and most overtly romantic stories for these two, Reed literally goes on a dinner date with Victor)
Mark Millar:
Fantastic Four #558, 562
Hickman/Secret Wars Era:
Fantastic Four #581 (arc ends in #582)
FF v1 (2010) #1-14 (omit 6, 7, 10, 11): concluding in Fantastic Four #611
New Avengers v3 (2013) #6, 7,14
Secret Wars (2015) #2-4, 9 + Marvel’s Two-In-One Annual #1 for conclusion
Post-Secret Wars Era:
Infamous Iron Man #6, #8
Marvel Two In One (2017) #5-6 (+ #4 for background), Annual #1, & #11
Fantastic Four (2018-) #25, #32, B Story, “Duel Intentions” & #33
Doctor Doom #9 & #10 (Chris Cantwell)
Origin Re-tellings & Variations:
Books of Doom #2
Before The Fantastic Four: Reed Richards #1-3
Shame Itself (B story) (satire)
F4 #416 ‘Roads Not Taken'
Ultimates (1610) setting:
Ultimate Fantastic Four #2, #7, #9-12, & #31-32
AU Versions:
Fantastic Five (2007) #1-5
Warlock (1972) #6-7
Exiles #95-98
What If? (1977) #22 (‘What if Doctor Doom was a Hero?“)
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #42
100th Anniversary #1
GeNext: United #2
What If? (1977) #6 (‘What if the Fantastic Four had different Super Powers?’)
Also Recommended:
Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men #1-4 (1987)
X-Men + Fantastic Four (2020) #2 & #3
Fantastic Four: The Movie (2005) (comic adaptation)
DOOM 2099 (2019)
Fantastic Four 2099 (1996) #6-8
Other Media:
Fantastic Four: Doomgate by Jeffrey Lang (novel)
