MARVEL COMICS: THE UNTOLD STORY
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"A WILD-RIDE ACCOUNT" —The Hollywood Reporter
"EPIC" —The New York Times
"INDISPENSABLE" —Los Angeles Times
"DEFINITIVE" —The Wall Street Journal
"SCINTILLATING" —Publishers Weekly
“FASCINATING” —GQ
"AUTHORITATIVE" —Kirkus Reviews
"GRIPPING" —Rolling Stone
"PRICELESS" —Booklist
"A MUST FOR ANY SUPERHERO OR POP-CULTURE FAN" —NY Post
"ESSENTIAL" —The Daily Beast
"A SUPERPOWERED MUST-READ" —USA Today
"REVELATORY" —The Miami Herald
"AS FULL OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS, TRAGIC REVERSALS AND UNLIKELY PLOT TWISTS AS ANY BOOK IN THE MARVEL CANON" —Newsday
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From Giant-Size Defenders #3, 1975. The art in this issue is credited to Jim Starlin (layouts), and Dan Adkins, Don Newton, and Jim Mooney (finishes). Not sure who did this illustration, which accompanies a text feature.
Pencils by Gene Colan for DOCTOR STRANGE #180
Colan’s border notes read:
DOC STANDS ALONE IN A STRANGE VOID, CRYING
Doctor Strange #9, August 1975. Art by Gene Colan and Frank Chiarmonte; Words by Steve Englehart.
Doctor Strange, as rendered by Sal Buscema and Vince Colletta, in Defenders #27, 1975.
Doctor Strange #180. Art by Gene Colan. Words by Roy Thomas.
Happy New Year!
A page from the Doctor Strange story in STRANGE TALES #131 by Steve Ditko.
“The grating voice becomes Mick Jagger’s!” The Sorcerer Supreme vs. Satan, from DOCTOR STRANGE #16, July 1976. Art by Gene Colan and Tom Palmer. Words by Steve Englehart.
With apologies to Goethe…
Strange Tales #147, August 1966. Art by Bill Everett. Words by Stan Lee.
MARVEL COMICS, IN A CTHULHU MOOD.
Here’s another glimpse at what might have been: A 1972 Roy Thomas memo proposes, among a handful of launches and title changes, a series “hosted” (a la EC’s Crypt Keeper) by the Doctor Strange villain Nightmare.
And what’s this? An anthology comic called THE MACABRE WORLD OF H.P. LOVECRAFT?!? A few months later, an issue of Journey into Mystery would feature an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark,” but no series ever materialized.
Art by Frank MIller. From “The Occult World of Doctor Strange” calendar, 1980.
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Doctor Strange eats a hot dog, 1972. Art by Barry Smith and Frank Brunner. Words by Archie Goodwin.
