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Issue: Doctor Strange #4
Publication Date: October 1974
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Issues: #4 of 81 Issues (184 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: £0.07 GBP
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Roy Thomas
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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Doctor Strange Meets... Death!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Frank Brunner (signed)
Inker(s): Frank Brunner (signed)
Colorist(s): Frank Brunner ?
Letterer(s): Danny Crespi ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange
Synopsis: Strange falling into cosmic skull.
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Pages: 1
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...Where Bound'ries.... Decay

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Englehart (co-plot, script); Frank Brunner (co-plot)
Penciller(s): Frank Brunner
Inker(s): Dick Giordano; Bob Wiacek [as Crusty Bunkers] (uncredited); Neal Adams [as Crusty Bunkers] (uncredited)
Colorist(s): Linda Lessman
Letterer(s): Tom Orzechowski
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Doctor Strange
Character(s): Dr. Strange; Death; Ancient One
Synopsis: Strange confronts Death, takes refuge inside form of Eternity. Strange fears Death no longer, and he dies!! Strange beholds Ancient One, who tells Strange he has won first in series of trials as Sorcerer Supreme. Ankh appears on Strange's forehead.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Some credits not in issue from Englehart and Brunner via email. Bob Wiacek inker credit from Back Issue #19. Wiacek noted on Facebook that this was his first work as a Crusty Bunker.

Overstreet states that Neal Adams did some of the inking in this story. Nick Caputo suspects Neal was involved primarily on the Doctor Strange figures.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Strange Mails
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Pages are reversed (2nd page printed before page with masthead); letters from Richard Shapiro, Jana C. Hollingsworth, Tom Murray, Victor Schwartzman, Kim Broadwell, and Norman Lanquist; includes Be a Mighty Marvel Salesperson ad, house ad for Monsters of the Movies #2, and Marvel Value Stamp Series A #33 (Sue Richards, the Invisible Girl).
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Wondrously Witty Words from a Woomful of Wombats!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Marvel Bullpen Bulletins
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan Lee's Soapbox, Items, house ad for FOOM subscriptions.

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