Get out of my operating room, MISTER Fate!

[Torzelbaum]

Dr. Nos Exy?

 

[Beowulf]

He was from Nextwave.

 

[Torzelbaum]

Suddenly it all makes sense...

 

[gogglebob]

This was/is an amazing thread, and my only complaint is that (unless I missed it), there was not a lengthy treatise on Doctor Bong.

 

[Beowulf]

I apparently missed Doctor Bong! (That's what I get for not reading Howard the Duck.) I don't have a definitive answer for you, though, because Lester Verde has an...interesting history. He was a journalism student who became a music reporter and then a musician, but then reappeared years later as a mad scientist with crazy muscles and crazier gadgets. It was kinda Step 1. Journalism degree, Step 2. ???, Step 3. Supervillain. Could he have gotten a doctorate in the interim? Sure. Did he? We have no idea.

 

[gogglebob]

If memory serves, I don't think he was "actually" a musician, as he was basically doing "deep undercover journalism" to expose the recklessness and deep hedonism of a particular band. That adventure ended when, in a night of very confusing debauchery, he lost a hand to a mini, "prop" guillotine. That is the origin point for his general insanity.

And then, yeah, it's "step 2 ????" and he's a brilliant geneticist. For any other doctor villain, I would assume that meant he went back to school after the accident. But he is a Gerber baby, so it is entirely possible he got his advanced knowledge from, like, a radioactive textbook. It could happen!

 

[Octopus Prime]

In a Howard the Duck story, it’s more likely than not

 

[Felicia]

I have to revive this thread again, to point out evidence that Mr. Mind might in fact be a Dr. as well, but just like Reed Richards, he's humble enough not to brag about it:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1467498606336917515

And even if he's not a real doctor, he is a real worm.

 

[Kirin]

... the voice in my head was singing the punchline to that post before I read it.

 

[Johnny Unusual]

To be fair, that might be his brother.