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Issue: Essential Dr. Strange #4
Publication Date: July 2009
 
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ISBN: 9780785130628
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Content Items: 59 (29 stories, 2 covers)
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Disclose Notes: Doctor Strange #30-56, Chamber of Chills #4, and Man-Thing #4, primarily from the period 1978-1982.

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[untitled]

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Dr. Stange
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A Gathering of Fear! [Doctor Strange #30]

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A Gathering of Fear! [Doctor Strange #30]

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Dweller in Darkness
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Doctor Strange #31

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A Death for Immortality [Doctor Strange #31]

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Sub-Mariner; Alaric (wields the Atlantean Sword of Kamuu)
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Art credits derived from the letters page to Doctor Strange #33. Tom Sutton hid names in the margins of Doctor Strange's cape throughout this issue (Ditko, Shooter, Cat Yronwode, Don McGregor, and Sterno on the splash page, for example).

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Behold...Dream Weaver! [Doctor Strange #32]

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The Dream Weaver! [Doctor Strange #32]

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the Dweller; Dream Weaver (1st appearance, origin)
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Through a Glass Strangely! [Doctor Strange #33]

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Dr. Strange; Clea
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All My Dreams Against Me [Doctor Strange #33]

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the Dweller in Darkness; Dream Weaver; Dr. Strange
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A Midsummer's Nightmare! [Doctor Strange #34]

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A Midsummer's Nightmare! [Doctor Strange #34]

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Cyrus Black; Nightmare
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Death at the Dweller's Command! [Doctor Strange #35]

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Of Knights--and Pawns [Doctor Strange #35]

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Avengers; Dr. Strange; Black Knight; Dweller; Ludi
With the Avengers, as Dr. Strange attempts to revive the Black Knight, whose statue form was shattered in Avengers 157, vs the Dweller, who again works through agents. This time he uses Ludi, a demon to do his bidding.
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Thunder of The Soul! [Doctor Strange #36]

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The Man Who Knew Stephen Sanders! [Doctor Strange #36]

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Ningal; Dweller
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Ningal is the brother demon to last issue's Ludi. The threads of this character come from Chamber of Chills 4. This continues the story of the Dweller.

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The Opener of the Crypt! [Chamber of Chills #4]

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The Demon From Beyond! [Chamber of Chills #4]

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Gardner Fox
Jean Izzo (uncredited)
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Murdoch Adams; Lenore Wilkins; Ludi
Adventurer Murdoch Adams saves a woman from being sacrificed in a pagan ritual, and defeats the demon Ludi that required the sacrifice.
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Murdoch Adams next appears in Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1974 series) #36-37.

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Fear, the Final Victor! [Doctor Strange #37]

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And Fear, the Final Victor! [Doctor Strange #37]

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Ningal [Dweller]; D'Spayre
Ningal strikes again and his story intertwines with the Black Knight.
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Panic in the Park! [Doctor Strange #38]

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Eye of the Beholder! [Doctor Strange #38]

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Eye Killers; Indian Demons; Sara Wolfe (introduction)
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Doctor Strange #39

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The Old Dark House [Doctor Strange #39]

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Baron Mordo; Madeleine de St Germaine (former love of Strange's, introduction); Alfeo Spinosa (priest in charge of church occult libraries, also from Strange's past, introduction)
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Asrael, Agent of Death! [Doctor Strange #40]

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Dawn of Death! [Doctor Strange #40]

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Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Baron Mordo; Lord Phyffe; Azrael, the Angel of Death [Julian Lord Phyffe] (introduction)
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Story continues in Man-Thing #4, and concludes in Doctor Strange #41.

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Man-Thing #4

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Death-Knell [Man-Thing #4]

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Man-Thing returns to the Swamp only to become involved in a battle between Baron Mordo and Dr Strange
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Continued from Doctor Strange #40. Continued in Dr Strange #41.

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Maelstrom at the Center of Time! [Doctor Strange #41]

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Weep for the Soul of Man... [Doctor Strange #41]

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Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Man-Thing; Baron Mordo; Jennifer Kale; Joshua Kale; Andy Kale; Jaxon; Madelaine De St. Germaine
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Continued from Man Thing 4.

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Doctor Strange #42

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The Black Mirror! [Doctor Strange #42]

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Warriors of the Golden Dragon (circle of Chinese wizards)
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Shadowqueen! (Doctor Strange #43)

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Shadowqueen! [Doctor Strange #43]

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Shailmar, the Shadowqueen (1st appearance, introduction)
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Continued from previous issue, concluded in the next.

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"Give up, Strange! If I don't get you, my gargoyles will!" (Doctor Strange #44)

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Duel of Fire! [Doctor Strange #44]

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The Demon in the Dark! [Doctor Strange #45]

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Wizard of the West Village [Doctor Strange #45]

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? [as Diverse Hands] (various, finished art)
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Inker page credits derived from the letters page of Doctor Strange #47.

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Reality War! [Doctor Strange #46]

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The Reality War [Doctor Strange #46]

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Sibylla (introduction, leader of the sect of Sybils); Xennus (villain)
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A Moment's Peace

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Doctor Strange ( Stephen Strange ) ; Clea ; Baron Mordo (flashback); Ancient One (flashback)
Dr. Strange reflects on the past while he and Clea are winding up their vacation in Italy.
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Ikonn...Lord of Illusions! [Doctor Strange #47]

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The Grand Illusion! [Doctor Strange #47]

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Doctor Strange #48

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The Power of Dr. Strange! [Doctor Strange #48]

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Brother Voodoo; Damballah; Morganna Blessing
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Doctor Strange #49

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This Menace Reborn! [Doctor Strange #49]

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Baron Mordo
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Doctor Strange #50

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Doctor Strange #51

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A Time for Love, a Time for Hate! [Doctor Strange #51]

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Sgt Fury; Dormammu
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Continued from last issue.

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Doctor Strange #52

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Life-Times [Doctor Strange #52]

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Nightmare
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Something Old, Something New... [Doctor Strange #53]

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The cover reprises the original cover of FF which first features Rama-Tut.

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Land of the Pharaohs [Doctor Strange #53]

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Fantastic Four; Rama- Tut; Nightmare; Clea; Dr. Strange.
Clea leaves Dr Strange.
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The action takes place during the FF's first meeting with Rama-Tut.

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Doctor Strange #54

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Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Clea
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Alone! [Doctor Strange #54]

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Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Clea; Tiboro
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Page numbers are actual story pages.

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Doctor Strange #55

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Doctor Strange
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"To Have Loved...and Lost!" [Doctor Strange #55]

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D'spayre
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Doctor Strange #56

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Dr. Strange
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A Mystic Reborn! [Doctor Strange #56]

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Dr. Strange [Stephen Strange]; Morgana Blessings; Wong; Sara Wolfe; Adria [Sylvia Nettlebaum]; Kaecilius [Joe Crocker]; Demonicus [Tyrone Lewis]; The Ancient One (flashback); Baron Mordo (flashback); Loki (cameo); Dormammu (cameo); Silver Dagger (cameo); The Hulk (cameo); Princess Clea (cameo); Eternity (cameo)
A retelling of the origin of Dr. Strange. Demonicus, Adria, and Kaecilius attempt to attack Dr. Strange in his mansion, but are captured by Adria's misuse of the Purple Dimension. All three last defeated in Strange Tales #143.
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Refers to: Strange Tales #128, Strange Tales #143, Doctor Strange #50.

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