Doctor Doom has conquered the Little Golden Book shelf. Day of Doom! (Marvel Avengers) is Doom’s first Little Golden Book, a $5.99 picture book for readers ages 2 to 5, and it makes an easy holiday gift for the youngest Marvel fans before Avengers: Doomsday opens December 18.
What Happens In The Book
Doom uses an anti-gravity ray to steal Avengers Tower, and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes take to the skies to stop him. The cover shows Doom in his green cloak and metal mask looming over a team of Avengers, with Iron Man and Black Widow leading the charge, all drawn in bright, cartoon colors made for little readers.
The book is written by Arie Kaplan and illustrated by Dan Schoening, and it came out from Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, on May 5, 2026, according to Penguin Random House. Like every Little Golden Book, it has the classic gold foil spine.
A Marvel Box Set
Day of Doom! is also one of five titles in the Marvel Little Golden Book Library, a $29.95 box set, which works out to the same $5.99 per book as buying them one at a time. The other four are Captain America: Sam Wilson, In the Arms of the Octopus, Fantastic Four and X-Men, which together cover a lot of the heroes heading into Doomsday.
Doom Everywhere
It is a good year to be Victor Von Doom. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him for Fantastic Four #5 in 1962, and more than six decades later he is finally getting the Little Golden Book treatment, a format that has been around since 1942. Robert Downey Jr. plays him in Avengers: Doomsday, which brings the Avengers, X-Men and Fantastic Four together against him. Marvel has been building toward the film with teasers and promotions for months, and Empire is revealing a new look at the movie this week.
For families, the Little Golden Book is a gentler way into the story. Doom is the villain, the heroes take to the skies after him, and the whole thing fits in a stocking. The book is sold at most bookstores and retailers that carry Little Golden Books, and the box set makes a bigger gift for a household that wants all five.
If you have a small Marvel fan who is not old enough for a theater showing of Avengers: Doomsday, Day of Doom! lets them meet the villain everyone will be talking about in December.
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