Marvel Premiere #3

(July 1972)

While the World Spins Mad! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Barry Windsor-Smith (credited as Barry Smith) (plot); Stan Lee (credited) (scenario)

Pencils

Barry Windsor-Smith (credited as Barry Smith)

Inks

Dan Adkins (credited) (embellishment)

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza (credited)

Job Number

948-Z

Feature Logo

Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts

Genre

superhero; fantasy-supernatural

Characters

Ancient One (supporting); Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange] (featured); Nightmare (antagonist); Dreamstalker (Nightmare’s steed)

Synopsis

Sensing evil, Strange is so focused on seeking it out, he's almost hit by a truck. He calls upon The Ancient One, who warns him of the nature of the evil, but is still mystified. Then he finds himself confronted by someone (or something) who takes his own form, and tells him he's "already defeated". Only when he discovers his oldest enemy is at the bottom of it does he also realize he was hit by the truck-- and has been in a hospital bed ever since! On recovering, he erases the memory of the night's events from the doctor's mind, as "Many things there are that mankind must not know..."

Reprints

• in Le Fils de Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4 (1er trimestre 1976) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in L'Incroyable Hulk (Editions Héritage, 1968 series) #70/71 ([juin 1977]) [Pages 1 to 10.
  N&B [B&W]], #72/73 ([août 1977]) [Pages 11 to 20.
  N&B [B&W]]
• in Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) (1979)
• in Doctor Strange Master of the Mystic Arts (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) (1979)
• in Superaventuras Marvel (Editora Abril, 1982 series) #2 (Agosto de 1982)
• in Marvel Milestones: Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Sub-Mariner & Hulk (Marvel, 2005 series) (2005)
• in Essential Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2001 series) #2 (2005)
• in Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2005 series) (February 2005)
which is reprinted
• in Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4
• in Stan Lee Meets Dr. Strange (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (December 2006)
• in Stan Lee Meets (Marvel, 2007 series) ([March] 2007)
• in Marvel Deluxe : Stan Lee (Panini France, 2007 series) #1 (octobre 2007)
• 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 Marvel Visionaries: Stan Lee (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019)
• in Satan (Arédit-Artima, 1975 series) #4

Indexer Notes

1st episode of the revived series. Doc's previous appearances include MARVEL FEATURE #1 (January 1972) and AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #109 (June 1972).

Incredible, Inedible Info to Stun Your Six Senses and Soothe Your Secret Soul! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Bullpen Bulletins; Stan's Soapbox / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script

Steve Englehart ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko (thumbnail illustration); Jack Kirby (thumbnail illustration); Ross Andru (thumbnail illustration)

Inks

Steve Ditko (thumbnail illustration); Chic Stone ? (thumbnail illustration); Sal Buscema (thumbnail illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

Morrie Kuramoto; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Special Note: What, you ask? A letters page - in the very first issue of a new series…

Indexer Notes

Letters from Hoy R. Murphy Jr., Rick Nelson, J. J. Friel. Includes a house ad for The Defenders # 1.
Between pages 15-16 of story.