Doctor Strange #25 (Marvel)
Jim Starlin (w) Al Migrom & Pablo Marcos (a)
Doctor Strange is one of the founding characters of the Marvel universe but by the late seventies was only being published bi-monthly and has always had a wee bit of trouble supporting his own comic. Sad really. Created by Stan Lee and wonderfully brought to life by the art of Steve Ditko the world of magic in the MU was given form.
However as this issue shows the magic gets somewhat complicated and if it wasn't for those old fashioned "catch up" pages I for one would have been at a total loss to understand what was going on here. Strange has been fighting a group of beings called the creators who had a device that could change reality.
After teaming with a sun turned into human form the creators become the stars and the stars human after the Doc destroys their device and with the help of Cleo rescues these followers of his as the universe of the creators dimension collapses around them.
With me so far? Except it's far from over as Strange returns to Earth to find it is a parody of it's former self and though his sanctuary still exists there is a Doctor even stranger than he resident within.
To be continued as they say. In sixty days in fact, which must have been off putting for the reader. But sales didn't warrant a monthly. This first volume of the Doctors adventures lasted 81 issues bewteen 1974 and 1987. Not a bad run really!
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