Marvel Premiere #3

(July 1972)

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

Dr. Strange / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith] (plot); Stan Lee (dialogue)

Pencils

Barry Windsor-Smith [as Barry Smith]

Inks

Dan Adkins

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza

Job Number

948-Z

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Strange; The Ancient One; Nightmare

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], #72/73 ([Août 1977]) [Pages 11 to 20]
• 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 ([November] 2016)
• 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).

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

Steve Englehart ?

Pencils

Steve Ditko; Jack Kirby; Ross Andru (illustrations)

Inks

Steve Ditko; Chic Stone ?; Sal Buscema (illustrations)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset; Morrie Kuramoto

Indexer Notes

Includes a house ad for The Defenders # 1.