Doctor Strange #183

(November 1969)

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Joe Weider Course and Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

They Walk by Night! (Table of Contents: 2)

Doctor Strange / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Gene Colan (credited)

Inks

Tom Palmer (credited)

Colors

Tom Palmer

Letters

Jean Simek (credited as Jean Izzo)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Neither titan nor tempest must keep me from my destination!

Genre

fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange; also as Stephen Sanders]; Clea; Wong; Eternity (cameo); Kenneth Ward; The Undying Ones

Synopsis

Kenneth Ward, explorer and old friend of Strange, discovers idol of the Undying Ones. Strange defeats 3 demons who want the idol. Ward dies of heart failure.

Reprints

• in Doctor Centella (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1969 series) #15 (Marzo 31 de 1970)
• in Le Fils de Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #17 (3ème trimestre 1980) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in Selecciones Marvel (Planeta DeAgostini, 1999 series) #8 - Los Defensores: El Nacimiento de los Defensores (Marzo 2000)
• in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2005)
• in Essential Defenders (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (2005)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 2003 series) #4 ([January] 2010)
• in Doctor Strange Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #3 - A Separate Reality (2016)
• in The Defenders Omnibus (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (2020 [June 2021])
• in Defenders Epic Collection (Marvel, 2016 series) #1 - The Day of the Defenders (2022 [February 2023])

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Sub-Mariner (Marvel, 1968 Series) #22, then concludes in The Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 Series) #126.
Palmer coloring credit per interview: http://www.wtv-zone.com/silverager/interviews/palmer.shtml

The Race to Danger (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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Precise Publications Defense Training / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Marvelmania / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.6 page (report information)

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ABC’s Super Saturday Club / advertisement / 3 pages (report information)

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Strange Mails / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Colors

? (letters only)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Between pages 12 and 13. Includes a letter from Marc De Matteis and an excerpt of a letter author Tom Wolfe sent to Roy Thomas on his Dr. Strange cameo.

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