Panel from The Invaders #33 (October 1978), script by Roy Thomas, pencils by Alan Kupperberg, inks by Frank Springer, colors by George Roussos, letters by Joe Rosen
And say, can you guess who that "mysteriously bandaged assistant guy" in the corner is?
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I'm more preoccupied with that Spidey-like pose that Volstagg is striking behind Hitler.
I have no idea. Who? (The Red Skull?)
It is in fact...Victor von Doom!
I was going to guess that it was the Unknown Superman of 5700 AD.
I was figuring on Cap who'd whip the bandages off and take care of business. But Doom is interesting too. Was he time traveling or is Dr Doom, Gypsy Killing Nazi in canon?
I shoulda (oughta, coulda!) expanded on my answer. This is von Doom, traveling across Europe in the days after he had been disfigured in the experiment to contact his mother in the afterlife at State University...the same botched experiment that could have been successful if Doom had listened to and accepted Reed Richard's point that there were errors in his figures. (That nutty Doom, always not payin' attention!)
Early Marvel Universe stories make references to Reed and Ben Grimm going to college before World War II, and each entering the service: Ben as an Air Force pilot (Captain Savage #7) and Reed as an OSS officer (Sgt. Fury #3)--tales set in the same period as this ish of The Invaders, so it makes sense for Roy Thomas, master of knowledge on all things Golden Age, to cameo Doom in this Second World War tale.
Nowadays as the Marvel Universe timeline strrrrrretches behind us like...some long stretchy thing, Reed and Ben fighting in WWII references are no longer made. If you have to interpret when they were in the military, nowadays it might have been the First Iraq War! But for the most part as real time on our own Earth-1218 passes and Marvel Earth-616 time keeps a tortoise-pace alongside it, the comic book writers do the wisest thing about the discrepancy in chronology: they usually ignore it.
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