Ditko Doctor Strange "Marvel Masterwork" pin-up being used a variant cover to December's Doctor Strange: Defenders #1 [solicits] [cover image from solicits]

Pin-up used already as a cover to this month's Doctor Strange Epic Collection: Master of the Mystic Arts TPB

About this image:

Hidden Gems in Marvel Reprints [Nick Caputo's Marvel Mysteries and Comics Minutiae] [image published for the first time in Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #10, August 01967, over a year after Ditko left Marvel]

Rare Steve Ditko Dr. Strange Pin-Up! Silver Age Sensation! Marvel Comics! [Big Glee! The Albert Bryan Bigley Archives!]

This pin-up is a Neilalien fave partly because it definitively shows Doctor Strange's astral form with the Eye of Agamotto but without the Cloak of Levitation, as it should be. One of Neilalien's all-time peeves is when the Cloak is shown in Doc's astral form.

Update: More Steve Ditko Dr. Strange art used/repurposed/"remastered"/painted over/referenced/copied probably without compensation to Ditko for Masterworks and Omnibuses

[30 October 02018]

Interview: The Defenders Blend Action, Horror And Satire In 'The Best Defense' ["Al Ewing, Chip Zdarsky, Gerry Duggan and Jason Latour discuss reassembling Marvel's original Defenders cast"] [18 October 02018]

Marvel's January 02019 solicits include Doctor Strange "#400"! [Comics Continuum] [per Marvel's "legacy issue numbering"]

DOCTOR STRANGE #10
MARK WAID (W) JESUS SAIZ, CHRIS BACHALO, KEVIN NOWLAN & MORE! (A)
Cover by JESUS SAIZ
VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
B&W VARIANT COVER BY JOE QUESADA
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
B&W HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY FRANK MILLER
VARIANT COVER BY TBA
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VARIANT COVER BY TBA
DOCTOR STRANGE HITS HIS MILESTONE 400TH ISSUE!
Creative team Mark Waid and Jesus Saiz are joined by some of the best DOCTOR STRANGE artists of all time to tell a monumentally strange tale! Someone has been working in the background since the first issue, chipping away at Doctor Strange and other magicians, undercutting and depleting their magic, and the other shoe finally drops. Does Strange stand a chance against someone who can take his magic away with the snap of their fingers?
48 PGS./Rated T+ $5.99

Also in January:
MOON GIRL AND DEVIL DINOSAUR #39 guest-stars Dr. Strange

[17 October 02018]

Out 17 Oct: Doctor Strange: Epic Collection TPB: Master Of The Mystic Arts [collecting material from Strange Tales #110-111 and #114-146 and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2]

Out 31 Oct: What If? Magik Became Sorcerer Supreme?

[16 October 02018]

Stan Lee Breaks His Silence: Those I Trusted Betrayed Me [Daily Beast]

Update/May 02019: Stan Lee's Former Business Partner And Friend Keya Morgan Charged With Elder Abuse [TMZ]

[10 October 02018]

Out last week 3 Oct: Doctor Strange #6

The Obscure Reason There Are Now Two Doctor Stranges In The Marvel Universe

Flashback/January 02017: Did Doctor Strange Just Give Up On Saving His Apprentice? [Brian Cronin CBR]

Update/April 02019: Why Doctor Strange Seemed To Give Up On His Lost Apprentice [Brian Cronin CBR]

Casey Kinmont [Marvel Wikia]
Casey Kinmont [Marvel Appendix]

[9 October 02018]

Marvel December 02018 solicits include Defenders: "The Best Defense"; Dr. Strange dead? [Newsarama] [Doctor Strange #10/#400 in January]

Read "THE BEST DEFENSE" in order!

An unsolvable murder. An aquatic doorway to nothingness. A wanderer at the end of time. And a cosmic train of planetary proportions. Four seemingly-unrelated events that will require the powers and insights of the members of the greatest Non-Team of them all, the original DEFENDERS, to connect the dots and challenge the strange power behind these disconnected happenings- before all of reality pays the price! Doctor Strange! Immortal Hulk! Namor the Sub-Mariner! The Silver Surfer! Don't call them a team- call them the DEFENDERS!

ON SALE 12/5/18
IMMORTAL HULK: DEFENDERS #1
NAMOR: DEFENDERS #1
ON SALE 12/12/18
DOCTOR STRANGE: DEFENDERS #1
SILVER SURFER: DEFENDERS #1
ON SALE 12/19/18
DEFENDERS #1

IMMORTAL HULK: DEFENDERS #1
AL EWING (W) SIMONE DI MEO (A)
Cover by RON GARNEY
Variant Cover by Joe Bennett
VARIANT COVER BY ADI GRANOV
REMASTERED VARIANT COVER BY JACK KIRBY
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
"THE BEST DEFENSE" STARTS HERE!
Stephen Strange is dead. A charred skeleton in an abandoned barn on the edge of a deserted town.
Bruce Banner wants to know why. And he won't stop until he has the truth in his hands... with or without THE IMMORTAL HULK.
40 PGS./one-shot /Rated T+ $4.99

NAMOR: DEFENDERS #1
CHIP ZDARSKY (W) CARLOS MAGNO (A)
Cover by RON GARNEY
Variant Cover by MARCO CHECCHETTO
VARIANT COVER BY CHRIS STEVENS
HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY MIKE MIGNOLA
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
"THE BEST DEFENSE" PART TWO!
The Monarch of the Oceans has declared war once more on the surface world in the pages of AVENGERS. And if this is a war that Namor means to win, he is going to need allies to stand beside him!
The Sub-Mariner's quest for a lost tribe of sea-dwellers carries him further than he ever thought possible- and to a reckoning both strange and wonderful!
And hey, what's up with that weird apparition in the sheet, anyway?
40 PGS./one-shot /Rated T+ $4.99

DOCTOR STRANGE: DEFENDERS #1
GERRY DUGGAN (W) GREG SMALLWOOD (A)
Cover by RON GARNEY
Variant Cover by CHRISTIAN WARD
VARIANT COVER BY MIKE MCKONE
REMASTERED VARIANT COVER BY STEVE DITKO
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
"THE BEST DEFENSE" PART THREE!
In a desolate, barren landscape, the Master of the Mystic Arts fights what may well prove to be his final battle- alone, unaided, friendless...
Except... what's in that bag that Stephen Strange is carrying with him?
40 PGS./one-shot /Rated T+ $4.99

SILVER SURFER: DEFENDERS #1
JASON LATOUR (W) JASON LATOUR (A)
Cover by RON GARNEY
Variant Cover by SKAN
VARIANT COVER BY PASQUAL FERRY
REMASTERED VARIANT COVER BY JOHN BUSCEMA
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
"THE BEST DEFENSE" PART FOUR!
Shall not the Judge of All the Earths do right?
Norrin Radd is not so certain.
But it falls to him who is the Silver Surfer to decide which planets will live... and which will feed the unending hunger of the world-devouring Galactus!
A single honest person can tip the balance... if only the Surfer can find one in time!
And the Train rolls on...
40 PGS./one-shot /Rated T+ $4.99

DEFENDERS: THE BEST DEFENSE #1
AL EWING (W) JOE BENNETT (A)
Cover by RON GARNEY
Variant Cover by ART ADAMS
VARIANT COVER BY KEVIN NOWLAN
REMASTERED VARIANT COVER BY SAL BUSCEMA
VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG
"THE BEST DEFENSE" FINALE!
The lost Atlanteans. The Train. The bedsheet man. Dead Steve. The Stock Exchange of Souls. Trust us, it all makes sense.
In fact, it makes enough sense to destroy our entire solar system... Unless four very different heroes can come together to stop it.
40 PGS./one-shot /Rated T+ $4.99

DOCTOR STRANGE #9
MARK WAID (W) JESUS SAIZ (A/C)
FANTASTIC FOUR VILLAINS VARIANT COVER BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC
THE DOCTOR IS IN!
Doctor Strange is back on Earth and back in the Sanctum Sanctorum!
But a villain from his past is back, threatening Greenwich Village and the Sanctum in a way Strange has never been threatened before.
Only one more issue until #400, and Mark Waid and Jess Saiz are setting the dominoes up for a huge 400th issue celebration.
32 PGS./Rated T+ $3.99

Also in December: INFINITY WARS #6 (of 6)

[8 October 02018]

New York Comic-Con this weekend in NYC 4-7 October [View All Panels, Screenings & Special Events] [View All Exhibitors] [All Comic Guests] [Artist Alley List] [Sitemap] [The Beat: 'NYCC '18' article tag] [Bleeding Cool: Party List (Updated)] [Update: Comic Book Legal Defense Fund NYCC 02018 Party on Saturday]

Mezco Toyz launches sweet new One:12 Collective Dr. Strange First Appearance Edition Figure [New York Comic-Con exclusive; based on Doc's early look; includes rotatable Orb of Agamotto with hinged lid] [Rock Father: #NYCC: Mezco Opens the Portal for the One:12 Collective Dr. Strange First Appearance Edition Figure] [Bleeding Cool: Doctor Strange Gets a NYCC Exclusive One:12 Collective Figure]

[1 October 02018]