Comic Lore

Doom vs. Mephisto: A Son's Eternal War

Tied to: Doom All-On-One (2026) #1

Victor von Doom's mother, Cynthia, was a Latverian sorceress who made a deal with the demon Mephisto, and her soul ended up trapped in his realm. For decades of comics, Doom has gone back to Hell to try to free her.

The best-known chapter is the graphic novel Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment (1989) by Roger Stern and Mike Mignola. Doom wins a contest of sorcery, and Doctor Strange joins him in a desperate attack on Mephisto's realm.

Today: Marvel bills Al Ewing and Alessandro Cappuccio's Doom All-On-One #1 as Doom's 'greatest such challenge,' with Doom fighting the entire Marvel Universe in perdition across 50 landscape splash pages.

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