Dormammu

Dormammu

Hasbro - Marvel Legends Build-a-Figure

From his 1990 Marvel Universe trading card back:

"The dread Dormammu is a being of vast magical power from the mystical Dark Dimension who devotes his demonic talents toward the conquest of our dimension.  Only the heroic efforts of the Earth sorcerer Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme who were his predecessors have prevented this evil entity from accomplishing his ghastly goal!"

First Appearance: Strange Tales #126. Nov, 1964

Dormammu just appeared to the general public consciousness in the Disney-Marvel movie version of "Doctor Strange."  And because it's movie time, it's new action figure time!   But if you want him, you have to buy 8 figures at $19.99 a piece to assemble him!  3 of which are movie variations (2 different Dr. Cumberbunds and Mordo-if-you-say-so), 2 of them are modern comic updates to characters I am already happy with from the Toy Biz days (Strange and Iron Fist), 2 of them are lesser-known Strange characters, and the last is a magical Thor baddie.  I only wanted the latter (Enchantress) and the big bad here.  I cut straight to Ebay (The "E" is for Evil) and picked up Dormie for $45 shipped, and later snagged Enchantress at Wal-mart on clearance for $9.  Whoo-hoo!

He comes with two translucent flame-magic skulls.  I can't decide if they are cooler or less cool because they are repurposed Ghost Rider heads?  Probably cooler, because the GR I have standing in my collection has a different sculpt and these still have the drilled peg holes so you can pop them on to most other figure bodies to make some creepy-cool minions!

Dressed out in classic villain purple, Dormammu stands close to 8 inches tall with his flaming head.  He's easily the best part of the entire wave you have to buy or work around to get him. I'm happy with him at the price I paid for him.  Unless you are a hardcore Marvel/Strange fan, I couldn't fathom paying $160+ for this wave.