In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to December 1973 to see how Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner pulled off a hoax to help protect a controversial Doctor Strange story.Now, generally speaking, there wasn’t a good deal of editorial interference going on at Marvel Comics in the early 1970s. More or less, you could get away with pretty much anything that you wanted. However, the reason for that is that Stan Lee ran a pretty loose ship. The only catch from Lee being such a relatively hands off publisher (while Roy Thomas was an Editor-in-Chief who fought for his talent when it was needed) is that you really WERE at Lee’s mercy. Again, that generally meant that you could do what you want, but if you ran AFOUL of Lee, then you were in trouble. I noted this in an old Comic Book Legends Revealed about how Jim Starlin was fired from Iron Man because Lee didn’t like what Starlin and Steve Gerber were doing on Iron Man (luckily, Roy Thomas stepped in and gave Starlin Captain Marvel instead, which worked out really nicely, and Lee eventually came around on Starlin, although Starlin still tore into Lee in the pages of the Warlock feature a few years later).Soon after Doctor Strange had become Sorcerer Supreme for the first time, his arch-nemesis, Baron Mordo, acquired the Book of Cagliostro, which showed Mordo how to travel in time. Mordo head off into the past to change history so that HE would become the Sorcerer Supreme. Naturally, Doctor Strange followed him there. After Strange and Mordo battled for a bit, they then met the Cagilostro who nominally wrote the book, but it turned out that he was really a being known as Sise-neg from the future, who had written the book basically to brag about how much he knew about magic. Sise-neg then absorbed power from another reality, and began to travel back in time with the intent to restart the universe, and reshape it in his image.
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to December 1973 to see how Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner pulled off a hoax to help protect a controversial Doctor Strange story.
Now, generally speaking, there wasn’t a good deal of editorial interference going on at Marvel Comics in the early 1970s. More or less, you could get away with pretty much anything that you wanted. However, the reason for that is that Stan Lee ran a pretty loose ship. The only catch from Lee being such a relatively hands off publisher (while Roy Thomas was an Editor-in-Chief who fought for his talent when it was needed) is that you really WERE at Lee’s mercy. Again, that generally meant that you could do what you want, but if you ran AFOUL of Lee, then you were in trouble. I noted this in an old Comic Book Legends Revealed about how Jim Starlin was fired from Iron Man because Lee didn’t like what Starlin and Steve Gerber were doing on Iron Man (luckily, Roy Thomas stepped in and gave Starlin Captain Marvel instead, which worked out really nicely, and Lee eventually came around on Starlin, although Starlin still tore into Lee in the pages of the Warlock feature a few years later).
Soon after Doctor Strange had become Sorcerer Supreme for the first time, his arch-nemesis, Baron Mordo, acquired the Book of Cagliostro, which showed Mordo how to travel in time. Mordo head off into the past to change history so that HE would become the Sorcerer Supreme. Naturally, Doctor Strange followed him there. After Strange and Mordo battled for a bit, they then met the Cagilostro who nominally wrote the book, but it turned out that he was really a being known as Sise-neg from the future, who had written the book basically to brag about how much he knew about magic. Sise-neg then absorbed power from another reality, and began to travel back in time with the intent to restart the universe, and reshape it in his image.
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