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Doctor Strange Epic Collection

Doctor Strange Epic Collection, Vol. 2: I, Dormammu

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Doctor Strange is back - brought to you by the occult imaginings of Stan Lee, Bill Everett, Marie Severin and Dan Adkins! With a roll call of classic creators like that, this Epic Collection is anything but cursed. Doctor Strange's adventures will take him across the cosmos and into new dimensions as he struggles to save Earth from Kaluu, Umar and the judgment of the Living Tribunal! Then, in his own solo series at last, Doctor Strange gains one of his greatest creative teams of all Roy Thomas, Gene Colan and Tom Palmer! This trio of talents will pit the Master of the Mystic Arts against Eternity and Dormammu - with the lives of Clea and Victoria Bentley hanging in the balance! Collecting DOCTOR STRANGE (1968) #169-179, AVENGERS (1963) #61, and material from STRANGE TALES (1951) #147-168 and NOT BRAND ECHH #13.

504 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2024

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Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber) was an American writer, editor, creator of comic book superheroes, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.

With several artist co-creators, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor as a superhero, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, the Silver Surfer, Dr. Strange, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scarlet Witch, The Inhumans, and many other characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. He subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.

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Profile Image for Sean Gibson.
Author 7 books6,124 followers
July 8, 2025
He's not THAT Strange. Dr. Bit Odd, maybe.

I'm kidding. This is a wildly uneven collection, but once Roy Thomas and Gene Colan hit their stride together, things get, well, magical.
Profile Image for Gary Sassaman.
368 reviews9 followers
January 28, 2024
I’ve been waiting for this volume for a long time. Marvel’s Epic Collections are not published in numeric order, so volumes 1 and 3 of Doctor Strange have been out for a few years. This volume bridges the gap between all the Steve Ditko stories (Volume 1) and the start of the Steve Englehart/Frank Brunner run (Volume 3). It contains the DS stories from Strange Tales #147 through #168, and the Doctor Strange title from #169 through #178, plus Avengers #61, which concludes the story from DS #178. It’s another mixed bag, with various artists—including Bill Everett, Marie Severin, and Dan Adkins—trying to emulate Ditko with their depictions of the various dimensions ol’ Doc has his adventures in. I’m actually very fond of Adkins’s art, even though it’s filled with some very recognizable swipes (the cover to EC Comics’s M.D. #1 immediately springs to mind). Things calm down a bit when Gene Colan takes over and with Tom Palmer’s inks, Doctor Strange settles into a comfortable groove written by Roy Thomas. Palmer even pencils and inks one issue, a rarity indeed. The stories themselves are decent, getting Doc out there into those dimension-spanning adventures that Ditko made famous, but he’s a tough act to follow. I think Ditko’s Doctor Strange is pretty much the high-point of his career, at least at Marvel, admittedly over-shadowed by Spider-Man, but that might just be me.
Profile Image for RunningRed NightBringer.
210 reviews2 followers
September 15, 2024
A collection of Doctor Strange stories from the 1960s Strange Tales when Doc shared the title with Nick Fury through it's rebranding as Doctor Strange (keeping the existing numbering, cause who cares). This is back before Stephen earned the title of Sorcerer Supreme, being a mere Master of the Mystic Arts.
Stephen faces various threats, visits various dimensions, briefly tries on a blue mask.
It's a fun little collection.

My only dislike, which I guess could be directed to the style of of the times, is the comic is too wordy. So much "Tell, don't show." Not just Strange, but every character, seemed to have this need to narrate the hell out of what they were doing or thinking. It really, really slowed the pacing down.
Profile Image for Lee Bright.
65 reviews
January 25, 2025
A truly epic collection indeed! I love these early Doc Strange comics, I was slightly worried after Stan stopped writing them and Ditko stopped drawing them, but I needn't have worried, the issues contained here are excellent and the longer story format when Strange gets his own mag really expands on the character and his world.
Profile Image for Al  McCarty.
532 reviews6 followers
October 29, 2024
I did not read ever word of this volume. The verbiage, by Lee and then Thomas, is nearly unreadable. Like much of their work. The art, by Severin, Everett, Adkins and Colan/Palmer is pretty darned good.
Profile Image for Gabriel Rojo.
81 reviews2 followers
April 1, 2024
5 stars for the artwork, 3 for the stories. Not even close in story quality to volumes 1 and 3, but still enjoyable.
Profile Image for Chad Olson.
717 reviews1 follower
October 29, 2024
Doctor Strange deals with the aftermath of previously defeating Dormammu
393 reviews
September 30, 2025
the first part of this book is solid but nothing crazy, but I found once it became a solo series that I liked it a lot more.
Profile Image for Bob Wolniak.
675 reviews11 followers
June 12, 2024
OK, I bought this because I am a sucker for the early career of Gene Colan's whispy, fantasy ladened penciling in several series, especially well suited to Dr. Strange. But actually, a lot of this volume is really Dan Green's artistic vision too, and I have to say he did a stellar job.
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624 reviews
June 12, 2023
Gems include the debuts of Cosmic Cauldron, Conquering Kaluu, Demons of Denak, Unspeakable Umar, Unliving who Live, Veritas, Zom the Destroyer, Living Tribunal, Circle Sinister, kaiju ant, Nebulos Lord of the Planets Perilous, kaiju slug, Yandroth the Scientist Supreme, Votorg the Lightning Robot, Dykorrs, Faceless Herald of Satannish, Lord Nekron, & Supreme Satannish, 1st Strange v. Mindless 1s, Ancient 1 betrays Strange, Strange scalps Zom at Stonehenge, Strange slays Nebulos, & Dormammu summons Mad Maelstrom.

Lowlights include, despite the amazing Gene Colan art, the resurrection of Ancient 1, & Strange’s blue costume
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