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<\/a><\/div>\nFlashback to my times in the Fiction House content-recycling mines of Planet Comics<\/i>! What we have here is a Dr Doom story nestled snugly into an issue of Science Comics<\/i> just where Dr Doom stories always go, but it’s not the right Dr Doom! Was this a story about a different science villain that was renamed to fit the space, or did “Richard Crater” (Dick Briefer, possibly) just kind of freestyle a fill-in gig and go wildly off-model? Who can say?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I can<\/i> say is that this Dr Doom is a villain both more entertaining and more ambitious than our regularly scheduled one. Instead of tormenting a handful of people for his own entertainment, this<\/i> Dr Doom is blowing up buildings as part of a campaign of terror designed to put him in charge of the world, and he shows off some fantastic bombast while expositing all of this. “Fools! Fools! Fools!”<\/p>\n Of course this sort of thing can not allowed to go on, and since this Dr Doom is very much not a future-man, J Edgar Hoover sends the rough and tumble Bob Steele to take care of him.<\/p>\n Bob doesn’t have much trouble making his way to Dr Doom’s lair – he merely hops out of his plane and into the remotely-piloted one that Doom uses as a relay for his destructive ray, and after that it’s just a matter of waiting to be flown back to a mountain full of costumed goons and then beating all of those goons up. Simple stuff.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n