Englehart had written Dr.

Strange kept things formal and clear. “You don’t have to take drugs to write fantasy,” writer Steve Englehart was once quoted as saying, but I can’t help but wonder if he took just a wee bit while penning this one. Hey there - my name's Dave and this is my comic book blog. Start Your Free Trial. For reasons lost to the history of the Dark Dimension, Miller never worked on Dr. Details like that make this series so special. In Marvel Premiere #10, Englehart channels his inner Lovecraft by detailing the mind-blowing struggle between the good Doctor and Shuma-Gorath. This wasn’t just a Mandrake the Magician riff. To that end we’ve compiled a list of the 10 best Doctor Strange comics (actually, one of them’s an animated film, not a comic) to check out after you’ve seen the movie. Now that’s storytelling.

Doctor Strange is perhaps the best example of an all-time Marvel great whose limited collected comics, strange Marvel Unlimited gaps, and general continuity obsfucation have kept the character in the dark for many comic book fans. Let’s just hope Marvel Studios is familiar with these issues because WOW!

The Oath is a Doctor Strange primer, a series that finds everything special about the character and pushes it into the new world of the modern Marvel Universe. Roger Stern was originally supposed to begin his Dr.

Aside from the character’s basic biographical facts, which remain the same, this movie tells quite a different story than the one told in the MCU film.

As we mentioned, Englehart also got to work with Gene Colan who, other than Ditko, was the quintessential Dr.

He wasn’t just the villain of the month, he was the Dread One and assuredly all reality must crumble. Stan Lee demanded the duo print a retraction to the story, but Englehart appeased him by publishing a fake letter from a preacher that praised the inventiveness of the tale. The series also introduced Mephista, the daughter of Mephisto and if that doesn’t get your interest, we don’t know what will.
It's my way of sharing my borderline obsessive addiction to the comic book medium, and I hope you like some of what's going on here. It seemed every issue Englehart was altering, destroying, or rebuilding reality, all while keeping the human element that has always made Dr. The story shows just how compassionate Strange could be as he helps Dr. Doom try and rescue the despot of Latveria’s mother from the fires of Hell. (Drag button to choose # of 'coffee cups' and click cart. I fully agree. In particular, if you love to hate Big Pharma like I do, you’ll get some nice vicarious satisfaction. Strange with Stern, but Marshall Rogers and a cadre of amazing artists (Tom Sutton, Alan Kupperberg, Kerry Gammill, Marshall Rogers, Brent Anderson, Paul Smith, Michael Golden, Kevin Nowlan, Dan Green, Steve Leialoha, Bret Blevins, Sal Buscema, and Gene Colan to be exact) certainly did in one of the most action packed runs in the character’s history. The good doctor has certainly found himself in many a dire situation during his career, but the threat he faces here is particularly insidious because it seeks to eradicate not just him but all of magic itself throughout all of the dimensions. Doctor Strange 81. Doctor Strange Masterworks Vol. Writer Greg Pak lays on the banter on a bit thick at times, almost too thick for my tastes, and the book kind of gets off to a slow start, but once it hits its stride it is excellent.

When I took on his solo series, I decided I should learn a little about actual magick – and it led to a continuing interest in the subject.” Englehart, aided by the lush and dynamic pencils of Brunner, did just that, charting Strange’s metaphysical journeys and expanding the boundaries of the mystic side of the Marvel Universe.

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The two then share an uneasy, fragile alliance that is never less than believable due to Roger Stern’s splendid writing.