One World Under Doom #8

History

The One World Under Doom event was publicly announced at San Diego Comic-Con on July 26, 2024, and was originally solicited as a five-issue series called The Rise of Emperor Doom before being retitled and expanded to nine issues — with no official explanation given for either change. The series launched in February 2025, timed to coincide with anticipation around the Avengers: Doomsday film, and was structured not as a contained crossover but as a sustained 'era' shift across Marvel's publishing line, with editor Tom Brevoort explicitly positioning it as an umbrella affecting every corner of the 2025 Marvel Universe. Ryan North, who had been writing the Fantastic Four monthly since 2022 and had established a nuanced, witty take on Doom throughout that run, was chosen to script the core series, with Brazilian artist R.B. Silva — a veteran of Powers of X and Captain America: Symbol of Truth — providing interior art and Travis Lanham handling letters throughout the run.

Trivia · 8 facts

• Released October 15, 2025; written by Ryan North, penciled and inked by R.B. Silva, colored by David Curiel, lettered by Travis Lanham, and edited by Tom Brevoort.
• Issue #8 of a nine-issue series (the penultimate chapter), with a cover date of December 2025 per the Marvel Database.
• The issue is structured around Valeria Richards — Doctor Doom's goddaughter and daughter of Reed Richards and Sue Storm — who constructs a hypersonic Morse-code transmitter to pull Doom into a private 'mindscape' conversation while the battle rages in the physical world.
• Doom deploys Chaos Magic to temporarily suppress all mutant powers in the surrounding area — explicitly noted in the story as neither permanent nor global, distinguishing it from Scarlet Witch's 'House of M' decimation — forcing the powerless X-Men out of the fight.
• The heroes' climactic gambit involves channeling the combined energy of the assembled heroes into Beta Ray Bill's hammer Stormbreaker, which is reforged mid-battle by Reed Richards using a recently learned magical spell and then lifted by Ben Grimm (the Thing), who proves worthy of the enchantment.
• The issue ends with Doom self-detonating his own armor as weaponized shrapnel to incapacitate every hero at once — only to discover that Valeria Richards was physically present on the battlefield and was mortally wounded in the blast, depicted graphically enough to spark editorial debate across review outlets.
• The assembled hero roster spans the Avengers (Captain Marvel, Iron Man, both Captain Americas, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Beta Ray Bill), the Fantastic Four (Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Thing, Human Torch), and the X-Men (Cyclops, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Magik, Nightcrawler, Wolverines Logan and Laura Kinney), along with Squirrel Girl, Brain Drain, Maria Hill, and the Fantastic Four's children (Franklin Richards, Valeria Richards, and the adopted alien children Jo-Venn and N'Kalla).
• The broader One World Under Doom event — of which this issue is part — was marketed by Marvel as the biggest shift to its status quo since Dark Reign, spinning directly out of the Blood Hunt crossover in which Doctor Strange transferred the Sorcerer Supreme mantle to Doom.

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