Halloween Hospital Horrors DOCTOR STRANGE "The Coming of...Dr Strange!" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Sorcerer Supreme...

...Doctor Strange, recovering from recent conflicts, re-lives how he went from being one of the world's foremost surgeons to a homeless hobo due to an auto accident that damaged his hands, rendering them useless.

Hearing of a mysterious figure called the Ancient One who might be able to restore his hands, Stephen Strange journeys to the Himalayas...

We detailed what became of Stephen Strange when we presented his original origin HERE!

BTW, we'll clue you in as to what we're doing next Halloween...

...a month-long extravaganza featuring all of Marvel's currently-operating MDs (super-powered or not) teamed-up in a two-part saga!
And before you ask where's Mighty Thor and Doctor Druid, Thor's no longer Don Blake MD, and Doctor Druid is dead (for now, at least)!

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Halloween Hospital Horrors DOCTOR STRANGE "The Coming of...Dr Strange!" Part 1

One of the things about comics is a tendency to modify or rewrite the past!

...as Marvel did when the Sorcerer Supreme finally got his own book, the long-running anthology title Strange Tales which he had been sharing with Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., now retitled Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts!)

Writer Roy Thomas decided to retell and enhance the origin story we showed HERE to introduce new plot elements he would utilize down the road, plus give any new readers a chance to catch up!

So lets get down to business...

What awaits Stephen Strange in what looks like a set from the movie Lost Horizon?

(If you read the original origin, you'd know this ain't no Shangri-La!)

And why is he smoking like a chimney?

Because, before the early 2000s, almost all adult Marvel characters (heroic or villainous) smoked cigarettes/cigars/pipes...but no marijuana!

To Be Concluded...

Friday!

(Just in time for Halloween!)

The art style is quite different from the renderings of the character's creator, Steve Ditko!
Illustrator Dan Adkins trained under Wally Wood and was a big fan of classical comics illustrators like Alex (Flash Gordon) Raymond and Hal (Prince Valiant) Foster, which certainly shows in his work here!
Problem was that Dan, though a proficient penciler, was slow.
As a result, he had to drop penciling and inking the monthly title, and moved to inking other artists.
Since his amazingly-clean inking style enhanced almost everybody's work, and he was fast when he was embellishing others, Adkins switched to inking full-time, doing the occasional full pencil/ink assignment.

BTW, Nick Fury got his own book, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., making him the only heroic Marvel character with two series being published at the same time (S.H.I.E.L.D. and Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandos) during the Silver Age of Comics!

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