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Sto caricando le informazioni... Marvel Masterworks, Volume 023: Doctor Strange Volume 1 [Strange Tales #110-111 + 114-141] (1992)di Stan Lee (Writer (except 129)), Steve Ditko (Artist and Co-Plotter)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth! The wife and I went to go see the recent movie and I enjoyed it enough that I thought I owed it to myself to check out the original story line and artwork. This is 336 full color pages of Dr. Strange comics. Stan Lee and Steve Ditko came up with some pretty weird stuff and Dr. Strange probably ranks with some of the weirdest. This isn't like Lovecraft weird or Algernon Blackwood weird, but they were getting there. Most of these issues are standalone and don't really flow into one another until much later in the Strange Tales series. Not a lot of moral conflict in these first issues either. Dr. Strange never fails to do the right and selfless thing. I'm interested to see how this character evolves into the turn of the century. Still, you can taste the rumblings of counter-culture psychic mumbo-jumbo in these first stories. Ectoplasm, ESP, inter-dimensional travel, far east meditation powers, just to name a few. Plus it's married with classic occult tropes. Even demons and "shatan" himself are referenced. All in good fun of course. These are pretty tame but I could see how they might have freaked out some people back in the 60's. Heck, my mother would have burned these in a heartbeat if she ever found them hidden in my room in the 80's. Perhaps that's why they were so popular when they first came out. Neurosurgeon Stephen Strange becomes Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, and battles the evil forces in the universe with the use of black magic and martial arts. I vaguely remember reading Doctor Strange as a kid, but my favorite comic magician was Mandrake, so Strange was a little too, well, strange for me to love. I picked this up on a pre-movie sale and it turned out to be better than I remembered (even if I still prefer Mandrake). The art is colorful and the story lines entertaining - the baddies are evil on an epic scale and are left alive (because our heroes are good) so that they can come back and try their villainy over and over again. I'd probably not recommend that a new-comer start with these stories as they are not very complex plot-wise, but if you'd like to see how it all started, this is a great collection. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Collects stories from Strange Tales #110-111, 114-141 & Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #2. Stephen Strange is Doctor Strange. But he is no doctor, at least not that kind that would initially come to mind. He is the Master of the Mystic Arts, a sorcerer supreme, a white knight who wields black magic against blacker villains still. Strange is mankind's only hope against the dark other-worldly forces that conspire to destroy the conscious world. Catch the beginning of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's amazing run. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It's wild to me that this material follows on the heels of the first Spider-Man story by a year, because while those (IMO) have aged very well, the good doctor's first adventures have not. For all of the praise for Ditko's "psychedelic" style, there aren't really a lot of parts that wow me, and, well, Lee's writing doesn't do much either - what's Strange like as a person when he's not being a super-wizard? Why is a master of the mystic arts living in Greenwich Village? What do any of those weird things he says actually mean? Who knows! (I will reserve some praise here, art-wise, for the parts featuring Nightmare, who I guess is a sort of dream spirit? Ditko's design for him in the earlier stories is extremely creepy and weird, although it becomes more bland as time goes on.)
At the end of the day, this feels like 90% of older comics - long periods of time where not much happens followed by one or two issues that have something unusual/interesting going on. Probably not worth it except for diehards. ( )