Well, to answer an old question (which has been answered many times on here), Doom loses to the FF simply because his intellectual equal on that team. In my opinion, if it weren't for Reed Richards, the rest of his team would've been wiped out by Doom a long time ago. And, Doom's never lost to Spider-Man from what I know. He owned Spidey in their first meeting, and in the worse way. And, he HAS taken over the world already (and two others as well, including an Earth in an alternate universe). He gave it back basically because he was bored, lol.
As far as this fight goes, Doom respects Stark's tech knowledge, but is still his superior regardless. Doom's base armor alone can stand up to the best that most cosmic beings throw at him. Now Iron Man has a wide variaty of weapons, but just how will any of them phase Doom? Doom may not have the variaty of firepower, but regardless, he has just as much if not more (one being a desintegrator gun [or whatever it's called] which could wipe just about anyone out of existence). Iron Man's good, but Doom is just better.
And another thing; if anyone thinks someone can win a fight, please come up with something other than "they'll find a way," cause that does not help out you're arguement in the least, and it's irritating (to me anyways, lol).
And a question; which issue was it where Iron Man and Dr. Doom went at it, and what exactly happened?
Lets see, i have seem some numbers of the fantastic four with the thing alone beating doom, and more of once. Sure that the most of the times Reed is the most important part in the group to beat Doom, but the thing was capable to beat doom without help.
Second of all, in amazing spider man number 5, who was first reunion with spidey and doom, spidey beated him. In one team up number, i dont remember the number exactly, spidey beated him again.
Third of all, Iron man beated doom twice on what i remember, in one iron man number he beated doom and in one special issue, a graphic novel if i remember well, with both in the time of king arthur and merlin , iron man beated him again.
Originally posted by Tron
Now, were most of those defeats mentioned actually Doom, or simply one of his Doombots?
Yea everything mentioned as a Doom defeat was actually a Doombot.
In FF #350 Doom reveals to the Thing that he has been on a sojourn apparently in another place and time, ever since that first time the Thing beat him in a one on one brawl: FF #60 i think...Doom has only made about ten real appearances, the other conflicts are caused by really good Doombots. He certainly never fought spiderman or Iron Man...it wasnt even a normal Doom in the secret wars, the beyonder had to pull him from another timeline.