Doctor Strange #14 featured a crossover story with The Tomb of Dracula #44, another series that was being drawn by Gene Colan at the time. 2, which ran 81 issues (June 1974 – February 1987). 'It wasn't a huge seller, but we were selling the low 40 percent range of more than 400,000 print run, so it was actually selling a couple hundred thousand copies at the time you needed to sell even more.' Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts ĭoctor Strange's feature in the Marvel Premiere series segued to the character's second ongoing title, Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts, also known as Doctor Strange vol. 'I got very possessive about Doctor Strange,' Thomas recalled.

Thomas convinced Brodsky to allow him to continue writing the title. Sometimes it was a little strange for a dimension Doc Strange had been to before to look different when drawn by Gene, but nobody complained.' Thomas recalled in 2000 that he returned to work a day late from a weekend comic book convention to find that Marvel production manager Sol Brodsky had assigned Doctor Strange to writer Archie Goodwin, newly ensconced at Marvel and writing Iron Man. When Gene came on, he didn't feel a real rapport with that, I guess, so his extra dimensions tended to be just blackness and smoke and things of that sort. Everyone else sort of copied Ditko's versions of those extra dimensions, which were great and wonderful. he had his own view of what these other worlds should look like. Colan drastically altered the look of the series, as Thomas recounted: '. Roy Thomas wrote the run of new stories, joined after the first three issues by the art team of penciler Gene Colan and inker Tom Palmer through the end. The following month, Doctor Strange's adventures continued in the full-length Doctor Strange #169, with Nick Fury moving to the newly launched Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.Įxpanded to 20 pages per issue, the Doctor Strange solo series ran 15 issues, #169-183 (June 1968 – November 1969), continuing the numbering of Strange Tales. The original Strange Tales series ended with issue #168 (May 1968). Jason Aaron (1-20), Dennis Hallum (21-24), John Barber (25-26), Donny Cates (#381–390)ĭoctor Strange is a series of several comic book volumes featuring the character Doctor Strange and published by Marvel Comics, beginning with the original Doctor Strange comic book series that debuted in 1968.

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