Lost in the library (part 2 of 13) - Doom Treasury Edition

Doom Treasury Edition 

By Sanford Greene, Jonathan Hickman and Rachelle Rosenberg

All hail the return of the Treasury format – oversized pages that really showcase the art, they are a priceless way to present comic books. Some of the finest ones in the 1970s have been reprinted in gorgeous facsimile editions recently, but the format is also being used on new comics, like this one about the great Doctor Doom.

This comic certainly deserves the expanded scale. The story is a trifle and doesn’t even have a real ending, but the art by Sanford Greene blasts across the larger page in cosmic glory, with vivid splashes of colour, and the heavy weariness of a defeated Doom (although the big man would certainly disintegrate me for daring to say he had been vanquished). 

This edition is padded out with some vaguely connected material, which also looks good, but not as spectacular as the main event, where the wonder of cosmic Doom and his final war with the Planet Devourer is extra-sized in every possible dimension.