Talk:Superman VS Doctor Doom/@comment-25871592-20160923025424/@comment-30777016-20161217212234

It's explained in FF annual #2 (1966) that Dr Doom's parents were very talented individuals. His father was a technical wizard and his mother a mystic gypsie. So when his mother was taken hostage by Mephisto and his father killed a young Victor Von Doom dedicated his life to both magic AND technology. In the graphic novel/trade paperback Triumph and Torment there is a "contest" to see who the strongest sorcerer in the world is, and many believe that Doom threw the contest as to get a favor from the winner. Doom then has Strange help him go into hell to try and free his mother. Dr Doom is argueably the strongest magic user in the entire Marvel Universe. He also knows magic spells that no one else knows because he sent himself back to the beginning of time to learn every spell ever created and then just waited until he was caught back up to present day.