Where did Mad Doctor Doom come from?
BOB: When I created Mad Doctor Doom and Chester, and all the wild things they did, I thought it was a one-shot thing. I wanted to do something different so I thought this would be pretty good: a teenage assistant and a mad doctor bent on conquering the world. VICTOR: And it turned out to be successful. But he didn’t conquer the world. Never could. BOB: He’s still trying out there somewhere. I remember Victor colored that story and he colored Mad Doctor Doom green and I said, “What did you color him green for?” But that was a good idea and really I’m glad that he did. GARY: Dexter, when you were doing stories were you trying to incorporate some of the things that Bob had done into what you were [writing], too? DEXTER: Yes, just about all of them. They thought my work was part of Bob Bolling’s work. I was on cloud nine. I just tried to be as good as Bob’s was. I always thought of myself as a better writer than an artist and that’s basically how it evolved. GARY: Bob, you contributed thro
