Okay, so in the latest issue of Fantastic Four by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch we were kinda sorta introduced to Doom's Master...The Marquis of Death. Now they did not show all of his face because its still kind of a surprise but here is the man who allegedly trained Dr. Doom:

I prefer and like that last paragraph very much :-)

wtf?

Oops sorry. I think I may enter this. 

That Vader had a master and it worked doesn't mean the same can be said for doom...

In case you missed it, a contest was announced today to try to come up with Doom's Master's origin.  So don't reveal your ideas here lest you want them stolen...

CONTEST.

It makes me feel bad for all of those people on that they just put on the new Earth. I feel like they were put there just to die.

i think ur right  .. i mean  i hope marvel doesnt  f this up and pull a sh!t move  .. i like the idea of doom being somones pawn   and i hope its who i think it is... even though its probly not at all .   p.s  read my entry to the contest tell me wht u think im pretty sure im right on

"i think ur right  .. i mean  i hope marvel doesnt  f this up and pull a sh!t move  .. i like the idea of doom being somones pawn   and i hope its who i think it is... even though its probly not at all .   p.s  read my entry to the contest tell me wht u think im pretty sure im right on"

according to the solicitations he's got more then one master

"according to the solicitations he's got more then one master"

I think he kind of looks like Ord of the Breakerworld.

If it's anyone but Doom himself it would be really stupid.

In relation to everything they've done with time travel in The Fantastic Four, it's going to turn out to be Doom from another dimension or somthing along those lines.

"If it's anyone but Doom himself it would be really stupid."

I'm suddenly feeling very unoriginal...

according to a millar interview on ign cylde wincham is doom's master...here's the question and answer:

I love the idea of him having a master. 

He will be killed and than Doom will have no master.Nothing to see here.

He has two Masters...

"He has two Masters..."

It showed two in the comic I read. 

yeah in fantastic four it did show 2 people

Now i'm really confused? So the Marque of Death and this Clyde Winchman are two different characters and they're both Doom's Master? Wow, has Doom really sunk that low, that he needs not 1, but 2 masters?

"Now i'm really confused? So the Marque of Death and this Clyde Winchman are two different characters and they're both Doom's Master? Wow, has Doom really sunk that low, that he needs not 1, but 2 masters?"

 
@fesak

"If it's anyone but Doom himself it would be really stupid. "

"  So it's over now. At the start of it I didn't think I would like it. (Ok, I admit, at first I got caught up in the moment, but I got over it because Doom shouldn't have a master.

 
@fesak

said:

"If it's anyone but Doom himself it would be really stupid. "

I was of the same opinion and thought pretty much anything other than the above would be a dumb idea. Then I saw the Apprentice and I thought ok, maybe there was one other way they could play it and still have it work. I was pleased by how this whole thing ended. There's only one problem now. They're going to need a really good explanation for him ever losing again. Actually, two problems. The other one being, where does this fit? Is the Dark Reign Doom before or after Doom 2: Electric Boogaloo? Will other writers actually use this arc in their take on Doom? "