Cursitor Doom was written by Ken Mennell, a long-standing editor with a reputation as the comics division's "ideas man", and drawn by veteran Eric Bradbury on the strength of his work on "Maxwell Hawke" in Buster.

continued to fall, leading to a rapid turnover of strips as the editorial team tried to find a winning formula, and "Cursitor Doom" ended after 31 January 1970.

Thanks to Cursitor Doom's encyclopaedic knowledge of the occult and McCraggan's bravery, Kalak was vanquished - though the investigator warned his assistant this was likely to be only the first sinister and mystic foe they faced.

[6] Later the pair thwarted the return of the Snake-Mummy of Samotoya,[7] saved South American president Velasquez from the influence of the ancient sorcerer Scorpio,[8] Dominic Devine's attempts to release an unspeakable evil from the Door with Seven Locks, [9] preventing a deranged cult from resurrecting the dark mage Mardarax,[10] freed scientist Brice Talbot from sinister influences,[11] and halted the maniacal rival sorcerer Attagory.

He has extensively studied magic and the occult; thus he can carry out various rituals and spells, and his vast working knowledge allows him to rapidly devise counters to his foes' powers.

The character featured in a new framing sequence (drawn by Garry Leach) for coloured reprints of "The Steel Claw" from Valiant as an ally of Lewis Randell[a].

[17] This was rectified in 2018 when the pre-1970 library was purchased by Rebellion, allowing Furman to feature Cursitor Doom in the "Doctor Sin" back-up strip in The Vigilant: Legacy.

Special 2020 in an all-new strip by writer Maura McHugh and artist Andreas Butzbach, which featured Cursitor Doom teaming up with Valiant character Jason Hyde, something suggested by Rebellion editor Keith Richardson.

Comic historian Steve Holland has credited this to the "considerable style of Bradbury's art, and has also suggested the straight depiction of the supernatural in the series (compared to the likes of Maxwell Hawke, where ghosts were typically revealed to be illusions created by criminals) as a factor.