Strange Tales
#186
(July 1976)
Marvel,
1973 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860290107
- Editing
- Marv Wolfman (editor); Roger Stern (reprint editor)
Issue Notes
This issue presents a reprint of Strange Tales #136 & 137 stitched together as a single story.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Fury of the Ancient One!
Doctor Strange / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Dr. Strange; Ancient One
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Esposito inks per Nick Caputo. Previous indexer credited Frank Giacoia.
What Lurks beneath the Mask?
Doctor Strange / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); Stan Lee (credited) (dialogue)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Clea (unnamed); Dormammu; Baron Mordo; Dr. Strange; The Aged Genghis; Hamir; The Ancient One
- Synopsis
- Dormammu imprisons Clea, and tells her she will witness Strange's defeat. Mordo tells Dormammu that Strange is searching for "Eternity", and cannot understand why this upsets the dark lord so. Strange continues his search, going from one practitioner of the arts to another without result, until The Aged Ghenghis tells him only he and The Ancient One know the secret. He gives him a scroll, which leads Strange to a being imprisoned in another dimension, which he barely escapes. Back in Tibet, Strange tells his master's servant the only option left is to enter the mind of his master...
- Reprints
-
from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #136 (September 1965) [Page 3, panels 6-8 and page 4, panels 1-5 omitted.]
-
[When Meet the Mystic Minds!]
Doctor Strange / comic story / 9 pages
- Script
- Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); Stan Lee (credited) (dialogue)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original edited)
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- The Ancient One; Dr. Strange; Hamir (unnamed); Baron Mordo
- Synopsis
- Desperate to learn the secret of "Eternity", Dr. Strange probes into the unconscious mind of The Ancient One, meeting one deadly trap after another, until at last, he reaches the mind of his beloved Master, and convinces him of his identity and good intentions. After recovering, Strange departs, and high atop a Himalayan peak, recites "one of the most potent spells of all time". When he's finished, his amulet floats into the air, expands in size, and a doorway opens-- thru which Strange steps. Seconds after the amulet vanishes, Mordo appears, just barely too late to catch up with his enemy.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #137 (October 1965) [Title page omitted.]
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Fury of the Ancient One!
Doctor Strange -
1.
What Lurks beneath the Mask?
Doctor Strange -
2.
[When Meet the Mystic Minds!]
Doctor Strange
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Andrés Jiménez
- Darrel McCann
- Donald Dale Milne
- Jim Van Dore
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