Which appearances of Doctor Doom are not Doombots?
There are a number of instances where we can be fairly sure that the appearances we see are the true Doctor Doom, and not a Doombot. Many of Doom’s appearances outside of his own titles and the Fantastic Four can be suspected to be a Doombot (mostly because of reason (d) above). Within the Fantastic Four, it is reasonable to assume the following: All Doom appearances through FF # 60 are indeed the true Doctor Doom. Issue # 5 is the first appearance of Doctor Doom, but we know that he uses a Doombot for the first time in one point in that issue. In Issue # 6, Doom begins his longtime alliance/rivalry with Namor, which has been referred to in other appearances of the true Doctor Doom. In FF #10, Doom uses the Ovoid mind transfer process to swap bodies with Reed, so that is undoubtedly the true Doom. Issue # 16 & 17 involve Doom in the microverse after he was sent there at the end of issue # 10. Doom has a battle of wills with Reed in # 23, which ties into the storylines of #’s 39, 40, an
