RA'S AL DOOM
Earth-79733

Real Name: Ra's al Doom

Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-79733) human mutate (fringe character)

Occupation: Terrorist

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: None

Enemies: The world as a whole

Known Relatives: Unidentified parents (deceased)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Mobile throughout Asia;
    formerly Latveria

First Appearance: Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 (July, 1997)

Powers/Abilities: Ra's al Doom possesses superhuman longevity due to treatments by the Lazarus Pit device.

    He also a sophisticated suit of armor.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6'7")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 415 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed (see comments)
Hair: Unrevealed (see comments)

History:
(Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 - "Amalgamania: The Top 10 Amalgams 'Wizard' Wants to See" (fb) - BTS) - Young Ra's al Doom was raised by gentle Romani in Latveria until his parents were murdered by Latverian soldiers. The trauma of his parents' death making him bitter and jaded towards the world, Ra's al Doom began to believe himself superior to the rest of humanity and became determined to conquer the world. Traveling through Asia to amass knowledge, Ra's al Doom unearthed the Lazarus Pit device that prolonged his life at the cost of horribly scarring his body.

(Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 - "Amalgamania: The Top 10 Amalgams 'Wizard' Wants to See") - Plotting to raze the Earth and remake it in his own image, Ra's al Doom hid his Lazarus Pit-scarred body beneath a suit of sophisticated armor and soon developed a worldwide reputation of terror.

Comments: Created by the Wizard staff, Stuart Immonen and Jimmy Palmiotti.

Key:
Marvel characters are listed in regular, bold black type.
DC characters are listed in bold blue type.
Amalgam characters are listed in bold purple type.

    To clarify, Amalgam Comics didn't really exist beyond those seen in the few DC/Marvel cross-overs. The titles you don't recognize are amalgams of similar Marvel and DC comics--Snood.

    In case it's not obvious, Ra's al Doom is an amalgamation of Marvel's Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) and DC's Ra's al Ghul.

    Ra's al Doom is the product of an article in Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 in which the staff of the magazine came up with their own ideas for amalgamated characters.
   
    Ra's al Doom's eye and hair color were impossible to determine, as he was only ever seen inside his armor.

    That could be the Lazarus Pit in the one & only image above that Ra's al Doom is stepping onto but we really don't know for sure. The Lazarus Pit is listed as being a "device" in the text description of it in the article and the smoking stone stack Ra's al Doom is stepping onto in the image doesn't exactly look like a technological "device" of any kind. It could very well just be a pyre of some kind meant to set the mood for the image.

Profile by Proto-Man.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Earth-79733's Ra's al Doom should be distinguished from:

Latveria

Latveria was a nation in which Ra's al Doom was raised by gentle Romani who were ultimately murdered by Latverian soldiers.

--Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 - "Amalgamania: The Top 10 Amalgams 'Wizard' Wants to See" (fb) - BTS
The Lazarus Pit

The Lazarus Pit was a device unearthed by Ra's al Doom during his travels through Asia. Subjecting himself to the Lazarus Pit, Ra's al Doom prolonged his life but was left horribly scarred.

--Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 - "Amalgamania: The Top 10 Amalgams 'Wizard' Wants to See" (fb) - BTS
images: (without ads)
Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71, p58-59, splash page (Ra's al Doom, main image)

Appearances:
Wizard: The Guide to Comics I#71 (July, 1997) - "Amalgamania: The Top 10 Amalgams 'Wizard' Wants to See" story - The Wizard staff (writer), Stuart Immonen, Jimmy Palmiotti (art), Brian Cunningham (editor)

First posted: 11/12/2024
Last updated: 11/12/2024

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