A new ‘Age of Heroes’ dawns in this corporately-controlled America as future versions of pre-existing characters would begin emerge and tackle the threats of this darker world. Doom is among those ‘heroes’ who are willing to take on the likes of Tiger Wylde, Alchemax and John Herod. But the question everyone wants answered… is whether or not this is Victor von Doom!
Doom 2099 was the other 2099 title that had readers talking (a distant second to Spider-Man 2099). John Francis Moore and Pat Broderick set up the character’s mythology in the first two years before Warren Ellis took over as writer, bringing Doom into the spotlight with the ONE NATION UNDER DOOM event. Tom DeFalco, Even Skolnick and Tom Peter provided some fill in issue scripts before Moore returned to finish off the ongoing. But it didn’t end there!
Must Reads: Story arcs in bold in the Core List or marked with a ✔ in the Full Reading Order are must-read stories from this time period, along with any key related stories and often-forgotten tales that are worth a look.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue, so you don’t need to read the other four.
Chronology: Every appearance of 2099’s Doom from this period is included in chronological order, laying out the timeline rather than just the order the issues were released.
Spoilers: The issue/story overviews may include spoilers, so be warned!
Additional Note: While I’ve noted each of the four primary titles here as the first appearances of each characters, Marvel previewed the first eight pages of Doom 2099 in Marvel Comics Presents #118 – this technically makes that issue Doom’s first appearances.
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the core reading order without story descriptions, page-by-page breakdowns – just the stories:
- Doom 2099 #1-2
- Spider-Man 2099 #4
- Doom 2099 #3-4
- Ravage 2099 #7
- Doom 2099 #5-13
- Doom 2099 #16
- Ravage 2099 #14
- 2099 Unlimited #8 [3/3]
- X-Men 2099 #5
- Doom 2099 #14
- Punisher 2099 #13
- Spider-Man 2099 #17
- Doom 2099 #15
- Doom 2099 #17-22
- 2099 Unlimited #6 [3/3]
- 2099 Unlimited #7 [1/3]
- Uncanny Avengers (2012) #14,
- Uncanny Avengers (2012) #18.NOW
- Uncanny Avengers (2012) #20-22
- Doom 2099 #23-28
- 2099AD #1
- Ghost Rider #12
- Doom 2099 #29
- Ghost Rider #13
- Doom 2099 #30-31
- X-Men 2099 #21
- Hulk 2099 #7-8
- Ravage 2099 #32-33
- Ghost Rider 2099 #14
- Punisher 2099 #28
- X-Men 2099 #22
- Doom 2099 #32
- Spider-Man 2099 #34-35
- Hulk 2099 #9
- X-Men 2099 #23
- Hulk 2099 #10
- X-Men 2099 #25
- Punisher 2099 #30-31
- Doom 2099 #33-35
- 2099AD Apocalypse #1
- Doom 2099 #36
- X-Men 2099 #29
- Doom 2099 #37
- X-Men 2099 #30
- 2099AD Genesis #1
- Fantastic Four 2099 #1
- Doom 2099 #38-42
- Fantastic Four #413
- Doom 2099 #43
- Fantastic Four 2099 #6
- Fantastic Four 2099 #7
- Doom 2099 #44
- Fantastic Four 2099 #8
- 2099: World of Tomorrow #2-7
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #1-2 (1993) A man believing himself to be the true Doctor Doom emerges in Latveria and immediately begins a campaign to reclaim the country’s throne from the current ruler, Tiger Wylde. 1st appearance: Doom/Doctor Doom/Victor von Doom, Eduardo Devargas, Tiger Wylde, Wire/Wyatt, Xandra, the Zefiro Clan (Andreï, Fortune, Poet & Vox), Pixel Corp, Latveria | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #4 (1992-1993) Doom cameo; Doom observes the actions of the new Spider-Man, seeing his emergence in the year 2099 lining up with his own return as destiny. 1st appearance: Karyn ‘Kasey’ Nash, Specialist | ||
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #3-4 (1993) Doom has his fateful confrontation with Tiger Wylde with Latveria in the balance. 1st appearance: Cyberspace | |
| Ravage 2099 #7 (1993) Doom cameo; Doom gets déjà vu when he observes Ravage piloting the Fantasticar. | ||
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #5-10 (1993) Doom is pitted against the Netglider called Fever and the Paloma Program when he plans to lay claim to Pixel Corp and Cyberspace; the Punisher witnesses Doom’s actions in Cyberspace; Doom helps Wakanda resurrect their former leader Thandaza the Old, only for him to go mad; while fighting Thandaza, Doom raids Wakanda for its technology including a design for Environmental Maintenance Platforms. 1st appearance: Fever, Neon Angel/Margaretta von Geisterstadt, Paloma, Kazimierz Rosikon, Duke Stratosphere, Mercenary Elite |
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #13 (1994) While Doom defends himself from the techno-demon Necrotek, gods begin to emerge over Nueva York. | THE RISE OF THE HAMMER |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #16 (1994) Doom and Wire continue to explore Cyberspace. | |
| ✔ | Ravage 2099 #14 (1994) Doom cameo; Doom and the X-Men present themselves as potential allies to Ravage while the Asgardian ‘gods’ prepare to kill the new heroes. New identity: Tiana Sikoski as Hela | THE RISE OF THE HAMMER |
| ✔ | 2099 Unlimited #8 [3/3] (1995) Doom spies on his own people to head off a possible uprising. | |
| ✔ | X-Men 2099 #5 (1994) Doom 2099 #14 (1994) Punisher 2099 #13 (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #17 (1994) Spider-Man, Ravage, Doom, the Punisher and the X-Men become allies against a common foe when the Aesir try to kill them all; the truth about the Aesir is revealed and Valhalla is claimed by one member of the group; Spider-Man heads downtown to stop Mjolnir from falling into the wrong hands. 1st appearance: BloodSword as BloodHammer | THE FALL OF THE HAMMER |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #15, 17-18 (1994) Doom 2099 #25 [3/3] (1994) Doom 2099 #19-21 (1994) Doom 2099 #22 (pp.1-8) (1994) Doom follows an alien signal to the Himalayas where he encounters Radian and competes with Feng Huang for his otherworldly technology; Doom ventures to the Savage Land where he is reunited with Neon Angel who’s become a member of the sinister Shadows. 1st appearance: Shadows | |
| 2099 Unlimited #6 [3/3] (1994) Doom, Wire and Fortune continue to explore Cyberspace. | ||
| 2099 Unlimited #7 [1/3] (1995) Doom witnesses an alternate universe in which he’s a hero. | ||
| ✔ | Uncanny Avengers #14 (2014) Doom is recruited into the Chronos Corps formed by Kang of Earth-6311 to combat the unravelling of time by the Apocalypse Twins. 1st appearance: Chronos Corps | |
| ✔ | Uncanny Avengers #18.NOW, 20-22 (2014) Doom aids the Avengers Unity Division when it becomes clear that Kang has his own selfish agenda, giving them the means to change the course of history. | ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! |
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #22 (pp.9-22) (1994) Doom continues to build his power base as he prepares for war with Neon Angel. 1st appearance: ‘Tiger Wylde’ | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #23-25 [1/3] (1994-1995) Doom becomes ruler of the island of Myridia; Doom’s mind is switched into Erik Czerny‘s body and vice versa; the truth about Tiger Wylde’s return is revealed; Doom is betrayed by one of his closest allies; Doom battles ‘Doom’ to the death and has his final showdown with Neon Angel as he finally reclaims Latveria. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #26-28 (1995) Doom sets his sights on freeing the world from the control of American corporations; Doom resurrects Wire for his own purposes and has him join his specially assembled Black Cabinet as he makes sets things in motion to take over America. 1st appearance: Black Cabinet (Sharp Blue, Indigo Eshun, Nkrumah and Morphine Somers), the Cyberdive Cadre/Netgliders and Panther’s Rage New identity: Negliders as Cyberdrive Cadre, Valhalla as the Libera Cielo | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| 2099AD #1 (pp.1-12) (1995) Ghost Rider #12 (pp.21-22) (1995) 2099AD #1 (pp.13-38) (1995) Ghost Rider #12 (pp.1-20, 23-24) (1995) Doom and his Black Cabinet assess potential opposition when he makes his move on America; Doom negotiates with the GhostWorks to Ghost Rider in his search for an alien artefact that can resurrect the dead; the Punisher, Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Theatre of Pain and Halloween Jack converge on the artefact; Coda destroys the Ghost Rider. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #29 (1995) Doom takes the White House and announces his successful takeover of America; Doom consolidates the corporate police forces into SHIELD with the Punisher in charge; the X-Men defeat the Free Radicals and learn of Doom’s takeover. 1st appearance: SHIELD | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| Ghost Rider #13 (1995) Doom rebuilds the Ghost Rider with an obedience chip; Anesthesia Jones forms the Undernet. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #30-31 (pp.1-16) (1995) X-Men 2099 #21 (1995) Hulk 2099 #7-8 (1995) Doom 2099 #31 (pp.18-22) (1995) Ravage 2099 #32-33 (1995) Spider-Man and the mystic Strange face a horde of zombies in Mexico City; the Punisher rounds up the MegaCorp CEOs for a meeting with Doom which ends in disaster when they nominate Avatarr for death as a sign of their compliance, but he causes Doom to hallucinate and parade Avatarr’s corpse on TV, raging at the American people; the MegaCorps CEOs build Doom’s Environmental Maintenance Platforms to undo 200 years of pollution; Halloween Jack tries to warp reality in New Mexico, attracting Doom’s attention; the Hulk sabotages Doom’s EMPs in Hollywood; Hellrock comes under attack from Mindrot the Mind-Eater, leading to Doom contains the threat at the cost of all the lives on Hellrock. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| Ghost Rider 2099 #14 (1995) Doom makes Ghost Rider his SHIELD Marshall in Transverse City and orders Coda to leave him to do his job. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| ✔ | Punisher 2099 #28 (1995) X-Men 2099 #22 (1995) Doom 2099 #32 (pp.1-20) (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #34 [1/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #35 (1995) Hulk 2099 #9 (1995) X-Men 2099 #23 (1995) Hulk 2099 #10 (1995) Doom 2099 #32 (pp.21) (1995) Doom 2099 #33 (pp.1-9) (1995) X-Men 2099 #25 (1995) Punisher 2099 #31 (1995) Doom 2099 #33 (1995) Punisher 2099 #33 (pp.1-8) (1995) The Punisher and his elite SHIELD agents – the ‘Punishment Police’ – seek out and kill corrupt corporate black carders; Matt Axel rebuilds Gold Heart as the Real Punisher to oppose Jake Gallows who he believes has sold out to Doom; the X-Men find the missing Xi’an Chi Xan who’s joined the Theatre of Pain; John Herod rises up to oppose Doom’s takeover of America; Doom gives Miguel O’Hara control of Alchemax; a mutate bonds with Kron Stone, transforming him into Venom and killing one of Miguel O’Hara’s closest friends; the Golden One creates an Anti-Hulk to fight the Hulk just as California faces certain doom; the X-Men ally with Doom; Captain America is revealed to have been in stasis when he emerges in 2099; Gold Heart takes the role of the new Punisher; the Punisher’s war with Gold Heart impacts Doom’s approval ratings; Doom orders SHIELD to hunt down the rogue Punisher; John Herod’s forces attack the White House, intent on ending Doom’s rule of America; Spider-Man is attacked by a new threat called the Goblin; Herod attacks Latveria; the forces of the Chicago Reserve hunt down Doom’s Black Cabinet. 1st appearance: Captain America, Chicago Reserve, John Herod, Quiver/Rentaro Nakadai, Sham/Diamonda LaSalle, Joachim Vasquez, Venom Symbiote, Wave Spiders, Jillian Wong New identity: Jennifer D’Angelo as the Goblin, Gold Heart as Punisher/Real Punisher, Kron Stone as Venom, Xi’an Chi Xan as Controller X | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #34 (1995) No Doom appearance; evidence of Doom’s demise is found; Captain America’s true nature is revealed. 1st appearance: NyFax | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| X-Men 2099 #26 (p.1) (1995) Cerebra informs Morphine Somers that Doom has fallen. | X-NATION |
| Must Reads | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| 2099AD Genesis #1 (pp.4-18) (1996) Doom cameo; Doom recovers from hsi injuries. 1st appearance: Daredevil/Eric Nelson, Dust | 2099 GENESIS | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #35 (1995) Herod takes control of SHIELD and turns America into a police state; Doom escapes Washington with Static Annie. 1st appearance: Static Annie | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| ✔ | 2099AD Apocalypse #1 (1995) No Doom appearance; SHIELD hunt down and kill a number of superhumans. 1st appearance: Mirielle Ridley | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #36 (1995) X-Men 2099 #26 (pp.2-23) (1995) X-Men 2099 #27-28 (1995-1996) Doom 2099 #37 (pp.1-18) (1996) X-Men 2099 #29 (pp.1-19) (1996) Doom 2099 #37 (pp.19-22) (1996) Doom 2099 #38 (pp.1-10) (1996) X-Men 2099 #29 (pp.20-23) (1996) X-Men 2099 #30 (pp.1-23) (1996) Built by Doom, Halo City becomes the new sanctuary for the X-Men and any other persecuted mutants; Morphine Somers becomes Halo City’s Governor; the Graverobber and his fellow reanimated cybernetic mutants, the Undead, lay siege to Halo City; Cerebra leaves the X-Men. 1st appearance: Graverobber/Garth Simenon, Sisterhood of the Howling Commandments, Sister Margaret, Sister Nicholas, Undead, Wild Boys (Dorian, Shiv, Trash, Wulff/Sebastian Ruud), X-Nation (full appearances – Clarion/Hayes Isaacs, December/Winter Frost, Nostromo/Gabriel Hess, Twilight/Aminah Ferrara, Uproad/Matt Finn), Halo City | X-NATION |
| Fantastic Four 2099 #1 (1996) Doom cameo; Doom reacts to the 20th Century Fantastic Four breaking out of the Negative Zone. 1 appearance: Chimera, River Styx (unnamed), Ryan ‘Riot’ Wingfoot | 2099 GENESIS | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #38 (pp.11-22) (1996) Doom sets a revenge plot against John Herod in motion; Doom departs Halo City, leaving Cerebra in charge of the future of X-Nation. | X-NATION |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #39 [1/2] (1996) Doom sets up base in Myridia and plans to take over the world. | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #39 [2/2] (1996) Doom 2099 #40-42 (1996) Fantastic Four #413 (1996) After absorbing all the information on the Dataweb, Doom decides to travel back in time to undo the damage done to his beloved Latveria; Doom travels to our present (Earth-616) to mutate a breed of crab that will give the Latverian people immunity to the toxins John Herod used to kill the country’s entire population; Doom fails to convince this reality’s Doctor Doom to assist him who instead allies with Namor the Sub-Mariner to oppose him; the Thing, Daredevil and the Inhumans also oppose Doom, prompting him to make a desperate final bid to save his people. | RAGE AGAINST TIME |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #43 (pp.1-20) (1996) Doom escapes Earth-616 and returns to his own time (Earth-928) to witness the terrible impact that ‘saving’ Latveria has wrought. | RAGE AGAINST TIME LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| Fantastic Four 2099 #6 (1996) Doom cameo; Doom realises the Fantastic Four in 2099 are the original team. | RAGE AGAINST TIME | |
| ✔ | Doom 2099 #43 (pp.21-23) (1996) After seeing the worsening state his people and of the rest of the world, Doom is approached by Mister Fantastic who pleads for his help. | RAGE AGAINST TIME LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| ✔ | Fantastic Four 2099 #7 (pp.1-19) (1996) Doom 2099 #44 (1996) Fantastic Four 2099 #7 (pp.20-23) (1996) Fantastic Four 2099 #8 (1996) 2099: World of Tomorrow #2-7 (1996-1997) Sister Whisper returns to Atlantis to confront Attuma; Doom and Mister Fantastic prepare for the Phalanx invasion; Spider-Man discovers a means of escaping planet Earth; the X-Men evacuate Halo City; Exodus’ forceful attempt to lead mutantkind into the future is rejected by X-Nation; Vulcann instead presents Darkson as the future of mutantkind, but the X-Men release him from Vulcann’s control and lead the surviving mutants to the Savage Land; Strange meets her destiny; the Thing and some members of X-Nation find the means of stopping the Phalanx while the final battle takes place on Earth; the surviving heroes lead humanity into the future; the truth about the ‘Mutant Messiah’ is revealed. 1st appearance: Garokk, Magus New Identity: Doom/Victor von Doom as All-Father Doom | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
Reading orders featuring key characters from Earth-928:
The timeline of Doctor Doom of Earth-616 – the mainstream Marvel Universe – begins here:
Notable alternate versions of Earth-928:
| Must Read | Title, Issue Number & Synopsis | Event / Crossover |
| Symbiote Spider-Man #3-5 (2024) Kron Stone escapes incarceration and seeks revenge against Spider-Man as Venom; Doom is still acting as President in this arc, conflicting with Earth-928 continuity, clearly marking it as an alternate universe tale. | ||
| 2099 Alpha #1 (2020) Doom 2099 #1 (2020) Earth-2099: A time-lost Reed Richards arrives in the year 2099, believing himself to be Doctor Doom. | 2099 IS IN TROUBLE | |
| Black Panther 2099 #1 (2004) Earth-2992: Doom passes his legacy to his servant, Lucian. | MARVEL KNIGHTS 2099 | |
| ✔ | Exiles #76 (2006) Earth-6375: The mutant Proteus of Earth-58163 jumps to the future, arriving in the year 2099 and creating a divergent timeline; Doom tries to make a deal with Proteus. | |
| Timestorm 2009-2099: X-Men #1 (2009) Timestorm 2009-2099 #3 (2009) Earth-96099: Doom meets Wolverine of Earth-616 and gives Ghost Rider of this 2099 timeline information that will help them both find Shakti Haddad. | TIMESTORM 2009-2099 | |
| ✔ | 2099: Manifest Destiny (1998) Earth-96943: A possible future for the heroes of 2099 is revealed; Miguel O’Hara discovers the real cryogenically-frozen Captain America; Cap leads the Punisher, Strange, the Thing, former-members of the X-Men and others as a new team of Avengers; this was originally intended as the real wrap-up of the Earth-928 timeline. |
Notable collected editions featuring the 2099…
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| Fantastic Four/Doom 2099 Omnibus | 2099 Unlimited (1993) #5-8 [part] 2099 Special: World of Doom (1995) #1 [part] Doom 2099 (1993) #1-44 Fantastic Four 2099 (1996) #1-8 Fantastic Four (1961) #413 |
| Doom 2099: The Complete Collection by Warren Ellis | 2099: World of Doom Special #1 Doom 2099 #24-39 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.1-4 | 2099 Unlimited #1-3, 8 [part] Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #1-33 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 Spider-Man 2099 Annual (1994) #1 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus vol.1 | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #4, 17, 34-35 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
| Spider-Man 2099 Classic vol.2 | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #17 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vs Venom 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #34-35 |
| X-Men 2099 Omnibus | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5, 21-23, 25-26, 29 |
| X-Men 2099 vol.1 | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
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