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Marvel (2005), 304 pages
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The Master of the Mystic Arts is back, brought to you by the mind-blowing occult imaginings of Lee, Ditko, Everett, Severin, O'Neil and Adkins. With a roll call of classic creators like that, this book's anything but cursed. With galaxy-sized threats of Dormammu and Eternity - then, Dr. Strange goes head-to-head with Nebulos, Lord of the Planets Perilous. Collecting: Strange Tales (1951) 143-168, Marvel Collectors ' Item Classics 10
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LibraryThing member paradoxosalpha
The issues of Strange Tales that furnish the contents of this reprint volume were published in 1966-1968. They begin with Steve Ditko art, which -- alas! -- soon vanishes. I am not a fan of the corny style of Bill Everett, although Marie Severin's work on the title was passable.
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Reading back over this early material leaves me impressed with just how far the comic book representations of occultism have come in my lifetime. Granted, Doctor Strange is nowhere near the leading edge of them these days, but he was then!
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throughout is mostly from Stan Lee, and it is bombastic and ridiculous. I rather liked the multi-issue Roy Thomas / Stan Lee plot line that might have been titled "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly." The world is imperiled by some mystic menace, so Doctor Strange must unleash an even greater one to keep it at bay: rinse, cycle, and repeat. Also good for laughs are the later numbers written by Jim Lawrence. They feature Strange's unmotivated quasi-romantic championing of the miscellaneous Victoria Bentley, to say nothing of her being arbitrarily chosen for extraterrestrial ravishment by Yandroth, Lord of Technology!Reading back over this early material leaves me impressed with just how far the comic book representations of occultism have come in my lifetime. Granted, Doctor Strange is nowhere near the leading edge of them these days, but he was then!
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Language
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English
Original publication date
2005
Physical description
304 p.; 10 inches
ISBN
0785117377 / 9780785117377