Marvel Comics has revealed Doomquest, a ten-issue maxiseries starring Doctor Doom, by Ryan North and Francesco Mobili, starting this May. Named after the 1981 Iron Man story by David Michelinie, Bob Layton, and John Romita Jr., where Doom and the Armored Avenger were transported back in time to Camelot, the new series will see the King of Latveria hijack a proposal by Reed Richards to make the world a better place, by rewriting all of human history!
THE DAYS OF DOOM! Doctor Victor Von Doom is a great scientist, an unparalleled sorcerer and the ruler of his own nation. He is, by any measure, a great man. And yet Doom wants more. And when Reed Richards – Mister Fantastic, his greatest enemy and eternal rival – is showcased at a prestigious international event to which Doom wasn’t even invited, Doom is outraged.
Reed shares his plan for his eventual retirement project: the total optimization of history. He intends to go back in time, to all the eras humanity wasted on war and conflict, and fix them, saving trillions of lives and ensuring humanity can achieve its greatest and final glory. The idea of Reed rewriting history in his own image is, of course, antithetical to Doom, and so he decides to do it before Reed does. But when the Fantastic Four intervene, Doom finds himself in a battle he never intended – across all of time and space!
As North explains in the press release, this is not a follow-up to the 2025 event series he wrote, One World Under Doom, which ended with Victor sacrificing his life to resurrect Valeria Richards. “I thought we’d left Doom in a really interesting place with the events of [the crossover], and I was looking forward to seeing what others do with him now – and I still am!,” he says. “[But] when the chance came up to do an evergreen Doom story – meaning one set not in the immediate present but instead in the not-too-distant past, unshackled from his current status quo – it was really alluring, especially when I was told I could go as big and as crazy as I wanted.”
He adds, “In short, this is the fun one: Doom at his absolute Doomiest as he careens his way through a quest through time, rewriting history in his image – all to ennoble and exalt his beloved Latveria. It’s fun, it’s bombastic, and I can promise some absolute banger Doom moments (and speeches!) in it.”
The book marks a reunion for North and Mobili, who previously worked together on the 2022 Secret Invasion comic. The artist says, “It has been a long time since I last worked as an interior artist for a Marvel book [the last being 2023’s Iron Man Annual], and I can’t imagine a better way to come back! Doctor Doom is one of the greatest villains in comic book history, and Ryan North is one of the most brilliant writers we have in the industry right now. This mix makes it super fun to draw, page by page, and I’m loving everything about Ryan’s writing here. I can’t ask for more, and I can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up!”
Fans will be able to get a taste of the mayhem in the Comics Giveaway Day release Armageddon/X-Men on May 2, before the first issue is released on May 27. Issue #1 will have a main cover by Alex Ross, and variants by Romita Jr., Fabrizio De Tommaso, Nic Klein, Luciano Vecchio, Ryan Stegman, Rose Besch, MR Garcin, and Pete Woods. You can check out the revealed variants, including Vecchio’s homage to the cover of Iron Man #149 (the first half of the original “Doomquest”), below.
