3 TITLE The Way It All Began
3 SUMMARY While on a television show, Reed recalls the time he first met Victor von Doom before he became Dr. Doom. He had Ben as his roommate at university. Victor was working on dangerous experiments, especially a test that brought him to the hospital and got him expelled from university. Worse than that, the test altered his face and he swore revenge on Reed having to hide his work from him. Ben and Reed became soldiers in World War II. Ben, Susan, Johnny and Reed all went aboard a space rocket for space exploration. And so the origin of the Fantastic Four began. Dr. Doom confronts the Fantastic Four on the television show and briefs them on his origin. After that Dr. Doom attempts to get his revenge, but fails and escapes only to crash.
3 AIR_DATE 9/23/1967
The episode The Way It All Began aired on September 23, 1967, and in it, Dr. Doom attempts to get revenge on Reed for an event that occurred during his college years.