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Galactus, go home
In Infinity War #1 Dr Strange was surprised at home by a sudden blast of light. His protégé Rintrah is the only other 1 present, but Stephen Strange leaves him behind as he flies into the air to investigate what hit the building. He sees a ball of light flying around and hits it with a Bolt Of Bedevilment, and a human figure falls from the sky which turns out to be the fiery female Nova, the current Herald Of Galactus. DrS's worried because the last time a Herald dropped in it was Silver Surfer announcing the start of the Infinity Gauntlet event. (And he's right because she's about to drag him into the Infinity War.)Rintrah joins them in the sky using Strange's old Cloak Of Levitation and Amulet Of Agamotto. Then they return to the Sanctum Sanctorum where Nova explains that Galactus is on his way to see the Sorcerer Supreme. But before she can say more Stephen Strange's wife Clea returns from a trip to the Purple Dimension (in a backup tale in Annual #2) with Flyx, a fellow Faltinian who needed her help with a family dispute. She is immediately suspicious of Stephen consorting with a seemingly-naked female, but they explain she's only as nude as Silver Surfer - their 'skin' is a covering to enable them to survive in space.Then Nova gets back to her story. She and Big G found Eternity rendered catatonic by some unknown agency (IW#1). The culprit has erected mystic barriers to stop Galactus following his trail, which is why he wants Strange's help but he sent his Herald on ahead. DrS thinks she's holding info back and prepares to hypnotise her with the Eye Of Agomotto, but Nova responds with another blinding flash. And then immediately apologises for any damage.Clea takes her husband aside to tell him she's got her own quest to follow, to do with her mother (Umar). Stephen listens as he also repairs the damage with a casual spell. But said repair seems to result in the roof being taken away. However it's really Galactus making his own entrance. DrS and Nova fly out to meet him hovering in the sky, and Big G erects an invisibility screen to protect them from human gaze. But Clea and Rintrah can see them when they rush outside. Flyx urges Clea to continue their quest to regain her rule of her Dark Dimension home, but Clea says she can't leave while her husband is in danger.Galactus demands that Strange accompany him. DrS says he'll investigate the Eternity problem on his own, thank you. G sends a minor blast of power his way which the Sorcerer deflects with the Shield Of The Seraphim. Clea and Rintrah try to fly to his aid but can't penetrate G's barrier. Galactus then uproots a tenement building and C&R have to use spells to protect civilians from falling debris. He then further demonstrates his power by folding the building around DrS. C&R try to get through the hole G made in his barrier to pull the building through. Strange breaks free and hurls a spell at Galactus which knocks him over but he still hovers above the ground.G tells Strange that his skill has only increased his determination to bend the mage to his will. To prevent further damage to New York Stephen agrees to go with him, but 1st he leaves Clea with a goodbye kiss of such intensity that she thinks he fears never to return. To counter her worrying she leaves with Flyx on her own mission, and Rintrah is left alone.Dr Strange, Galactus and Nova fly into space. On the way G mentally transmits to DrS all he knows about Eternity's condition. But the experience causes our hero to lose consciousness in the hands of Nova, and possibly his life. And it is this scene that greets angry Silver Surfer when he arrives.


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Dr Strange is surrounded and menaced by sharp crystals. (They're supposed to be blood-red but they're not depicted that way.) We get a flashback as he remembers how he got in this position.He was in Galactus' spherical spaceship travelling down an interdimesional corridor making good time towards their target the 'relay' dimension which was the origin of the mystical energy that had rendered Eternity comatose. (Their good progress was due to the map of the corridor they'd got by incorporating the villain Khoon into the navigation system (Silver Surfer #68-69).)But the 4 travellers, including Silver Surfer and Galactus' Herald Nova (Frankie Raye), are thrown about when something stops the ship dead in its tracks. Stephen Strange recognises the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak and he exits the ship to deal with them. It doesn't go well and Nova flies out to help him  Her non-magic fire-blasts do better than his magic and the Bands let the ship go, but they grab the pair and pull them through the wall of the 'tunnel' and into Cyttorak's dimension. But then DrS loses sight of Nova and the sharp crystals spring up around him. Which brings us to the opening scene.The Sorcerer Supreme discovers that spells invoking other entities like the Vishanti don't work here, and obviously calling on Cyttorak himself wouldn't be any good.Back in the tunnel single-minded Galactus intends to continue his journey. With the power of the Eye Of Agamotto (and Khoon's map) he no longer needs Dr Strange. Surfer persuades him to wait for the others' return. Big G condescends to wait an hour. But if Nova returns before then without the mage he'll leave immediately.Nova herself has been guided to Cyttorak himself, but is only met by a blast of power.Strange has sent a mystic summons to the 1 person he thinks *can* help him in this dimension. And Juggernaut smashes him free of the crystals, but is confused as to what either of them are doing here. In another flashback we learn that he'd been out getting drunk when something compelled him to return home and don his costume. And then he'd been sucked into this place. He recognises the Crimson Cosmos (since the X-Men sent him there in their #33) and he's not happy that DrS has brought him back here. But Strange now says their only hope of escape is to work together and find Nova and Cyttorak. Cain Marko reminds him that the Ruby Of Cyttorak these days only gives him super-strength not mystic powers.Meanwhile Galactus has grown impatient and decided to re-start his journey anyway. But SS persuades him that they have a better chance of finding what they're looking for with DrS. Big G grudgingly agrees to wait for the original hour.DrS and Juggie head towards Cyttorak's voice as he's talking to Nova telling her she will be his High Priestess. (The rest of his realm is populated by little 'elves' he's created to worship him.) And later he'll catch the mage and make him the High Priest. Nova turns down the 'offer'. Strange interrupts and asks him to let Nova go because they are on a mission to save Eternity, but Cyttorak cares for nothing outside his Crimson Cosmos. So Stephen tries flattery and claims (truthfully) to have been spreading his fame in the physical universe by invoking his mighty power. And he will continue to do so if Cyttorak lets him and Nova go free.Cyttorak has agreed to it all when Juggernaut leaps on him and rips a large Ruby from his forehead. DrS tries to stop him battering the local god but Cain Marko says if he kills him then no-one will will ever be able to take his power away again. And he's willing to fight the powerless Sorcerer Supreme here too. Empowered by the Ruby he easily beats up Stephen.Galactus has located the target dimension and the hour is up. Norrin Radd begs for a few more minutes and exasperated G says this will be the last extension.Stephen Strange has only been playing for time for Frankie Raye to build up enough Power Cosmic to break free of the Crimson Bands which restrain her. And now she does and blasts the Ruby out of Marko's hand. DrS manages to summon up some magic to make the Ruby bounce away from Juggernaut and back onto unconscious Cyttorak's brow.Galactus warms up the engine of his spacecraft.Cyttorak wakes up and imprisons Marko in the Bands.Surfer blasts the hyperspatial throttle so Big G can't start his motor.Cyttorak claims that when Juggernaut 'defeated' him it actually stopped the flow of power from him to Marko, so he was actually defeating himself. But he'll let Juggernaut remain empowered in the real universe because even his acts will spread the name of Cyttorak. And he sends the 3 of them back from whence they each came.Frankie and Stephen return to Galactus' ship to find G threatening to remove the Power Cosmic from Surfer. But now he's content that they all get back on the road again.


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From here ... to there ... to Eternity
Dr Strange senses that there is yet a 3rd act to be added to the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity War events, and he asks the Orb Of Agamotto to show him the source of his unease. He sees the Goddess (in the golden armour she donned in Infinity Crusade #1) and his mystic senses tell him that she may be more powerful than even Thanos and Magus from those earlier conflicts. He fears that to defeat her he may need to regain his status as Sorcerer Supreme, which the Vishanti deprived him of (#48-49) because he refused to abandon Earth to go help them fight the Trinity Of Ashes (part of the War Of The 7 Spheres).He still has the spells he learned as Master Of The Mystic Arts (and some artefacts like the Orb) and he now uses them to go to the Vishanti to petition them for his powers back (if only for the duration of the IC event). But he ends up in a cosmic war zone with Agamotto, Hoggoth and Oshtur battling the Trinity Of Ashes (Grief-Savour, Mother Of Pain and Ygmlosvorraich). Stephen Strange realises he can't distract the Vishanti with his request. Indeed it's all he can do to get out of here alive, and hope that the bigger War doesn't affect Earth's universe.So he decides to take his plea to Eternity. He retraces the route the Ancient One showed him (in Strange Tales #137-138) by commanding his Amulet Of Agamotto to expand into a portal through which he can pass. But that time he had the blessing of the Ancient One, and this time the new dimension treats him as an intruder and its 'golden tentacles' attack him. The small stars which guided him then now attack him too and invade his mind to drive him mad. But he overcomes all this and makes his way to another portal shaped like the Amulet which he knows will take him to his goal. But even here the portal tries to eat him as he hurls himself through it. As before he enters another space with a point of light which expands into an avatar of Eternity.On that 1st meeting Eternity bade Strange keep silent, but this time the mage speaks out to tell him of the threat he senses from the Goddess. Eternity explains that his rule of silence is because he already knows anything a mortal could tell him. He says he is already aware of the Goddess and she is beneath his notice (as he told Adam Warlock in IC#1). He doesn't even get involved in the War Of The 7 Spheres. But now Dr Strange piques his interest by challenging him to a duel. If DrS wins Eternity will transport him to the Goddess. If he loses then he will be swallowed up by Eternity. The cosmic being appreciates the sacrifice the human is willing to make and agrees. But he won't fight him himself but provide a champion ...... Dr Strange's mentor the Ancient One. However this is a much younger Ancient One from long before he knew Stephen, and he attacks believing Strange to be an enemy of Eternity. Of course Stephen can't bring himself to use his full (but reduced) might against his friend while the AO has no such compunctions, and won't listen to any explanations which he considers lies. Eventually Strange hits on a desperate plan. Taking some energy from his shields he plucks some shards of time from Eternity and hurls them at his opponent. They pass through the Ancient One's own shields and enter him. Ageing him to the man who knows Stephen as his pupil.Stephen is glad to see his (now-dead) mentor again even for the brief moments before Eternity sends him back to his own time. Eternity decides not to send DrS to the Goddess (or not exactly) nor to restore his Sorcerer Supreme powers. Instead he gives him a vision of what the Goddess intends (but we don't see it). Strange is shocked and pleads for Eternity's help to stop it. Instead (again) he sends Stephen back home with all memory of what he learned this issue erased.We see him in his Greenwich Village Sanctum standing before the Orb Of Agamotto and wondering what he was going to consult it about. But then the Goddess appears to him (so Eternity did what he was asked for, sort of) and invites him to join her righteous Infinity Crusade. (Which from IC#1 we know he does.)Story 2: And now ... CentaurionScript/pencils/inks Geoff Isherwood. Letters Diana Albers.In our Annual #3 a minor young criminal Kyllian Boddicker (of Irish descent) was given powers (and tattoos) and a Druidic staff by the Celtic gods Cernunnos, Morrigan and Taranis. Dr Strange noticed and took him on as an apprentice. Now Strange is away and Kyllian's going stir-crazy. He tells Wong he's going out to settle some unfinished business (with the gang he used to belong to who killed his sister).Meanwhile on Mount Olympus Bellona, Goddess Of War, also seeks some action to possibly get 1 up on Ares who (as usual) hasn't fared well against Thor (in his #462). She gets an omen from Sybilla and goes to consult the seeress who tells her about Kyllian and his relation to the Celtic gods. Bellona reminds us that the Romans adopted the Greek pantheon under new names but (in the Marvel universe) it was the Olympians who aided the Romans against such enemies as the Celts. Bellona decides to send her champion to Earth to kill Kyllian ...... and he's suddenly faced with an armoured centaur who calls himself the Centaurion.


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Death's greatest hits
Dr Strange, Galactus, Nova (Frankie Raye) and Silver Surfer are in Big G's spherical spaceship getting very near to the target dimension where the energy they are tracking emanates from when they detect a cloaked craft following them (we know it's Dr Doom and Kang The Conqueror). But at the same time an energy flux destroys them and their ship.DrS awakes to face skeletal Death who pretends not to recognise him and treats him as just 1 more mortal. But Death does offer the information that he and his companions were disintegrated by the Magus, and that the less-organic other 3 aren't quite dead yet - especially Galactus whose willpower will soon rebuild himself and then the others. But Death intends to prevent that to stop them helping the currently comatose Eternity. Death and Eternity are paired opposites and as 1 falls the other rises.Stephen Strange can't let Death do that so he calls on all the Vishanti to power an attack which seems to kill Death. But of course that's impossible and Death freezes him in place and offers to personally escort him into the afterlife as befits a Sorcerer Supreme. All Strange has to do is let go of life. But Stephen is still defiant so Death chooses to remind him of others who Strange has 'allowed' to die.The 1st scene is his 19th birthday back from college in the family home in Nebraska. His younger sister Donna persuades him to come to the swimming hole with her High School friends. They leave their even younger brother Vic behind. Donna swims away from the others and gets cramp. Steve dives in to save her but fails and then can't find her body at the bottom of the water.Later when he's a medical intern he comes home to watch his mother Beverly die. Her last words to him are to look after Victor. However Stephen heads back to his distant hospital.He becomes a successful and wealthy surgeon, and successful with the women too. When Vic phones to tell him his father Eugene was dying Stephen never even returns the call, using the excuse that the airports are snowed in. Death suggests he was afraid that he was a bringer of death to his family, deaths that he couldn't prevent.Then we are reminded of Victor's fate. A few days after their dad's funeral Vic comes to Stephen's New York apartment to ask why he didn't come to Nebraska, but he storms out when he sees him with 1 of his female conquests. His brother follows him out into the snowstorm in time to see him knocked down and killed by a passing car. However physician Strange preserves the body hoping somehow to bring him back to life. Later as Sorcerer Strange he tries to complete that task but as a side-effect brings all destroyed vampires back to 'life' and revives Victor as 1.Death has been wearing away at Stephen's will to live and DrS is about to give up and let Death take him. But then he remembers the car crash that ruined his surgeon's hands. He didn't die that time and he won't go easily now! He manifests a glowing ankh on his forehead which rekindles his life-force, asserting that in his role as Dr Strange he's saved many more lives than he did as a surgeon.Angry Death tries a more direct physical attack. But DrS has realised that although his Vishanti incantations were useless against Death he *can* use them to aid Galactus in recreating himself. And he also now recalls the he died once before (DrS (1974) #4, where he also gained the ankh) but was reborn and now Death cannot claim him. Death is forced to release the bearer of the Life-Ankh.Galactus reforms himself and recreates his ship and the 3 others. Strange returns to his body and doesn't mention the part he performed in their survival.


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Silver-tongued devil
In Infinity Gauntlet #1 Thanos made half the population of the universe (including of Earth) disappear. Then earthquakes rocked Earth in IG#2, and Adam Warlock claimed that was the Mad Titan's doing too.The buildings around Dr Strange's Sanctum are razed to the ground - he only saved his house with a quick spell. Warlock and Silver Surfer are discussing the magnitude of the quake. Dr Doom says they should be discussing who should lead the crusade against Thanos, ie him. Stephen Strange tunes them all out and recalls a conversation that occurred after the end of #30 when his other-dimensional lover Clea arrived by magic.She was angry because he'd magically put her to sleep in #26 while he went off with Topaz to battle a werewolf, a vampire and a demon (#26-30). He claimed he was only trying to keep her out of danger after she lost the throne of the Dark Dimension, and the power that went with it, to Dormammu and then to a combination of Umar and Baron Mordo (#21-24). But she was angry that he treated her like she was still his disciple and left in a huff. But he had to put all that aside when Silver Surfer came crashing through his roof (beginning of IG#1).Now he wonders if Clea has vanished just like his servant Wong and Wong's fiancée Imei (and apparently Topaz has gone too). He intends to go find out but Warlock stops him, saying that they must be prepared to act at a moment's notice.DrS's alien disciple Rintrah orders Pip The Troll to take his cigar outside. But Rintrah follows him, intent on doing his own search for his master's soulmate. Both of them are feeling eminently dispensable to the higher powers inside the house, so Pip decides to join him. Rintrah casts a spell to make them look more human, but does nothing about their large disparity in sizes.They see someone preaching fire and brimstone in Washington Square Park. He declaims that the recent events are a punishment from the Lord for allowing blasphemers, idolaters and sorcerers to live among them. And the worst of all is Dr Strange. Rintrah recognises him as Isaiah Curwen, Silver Dagger, an old foe of the Doctor. But Curwen detects *him* and sets his armed guards on him. Pip tries to help but the enemy magician dissolves their concealing spell and they have to run from the crowd. Isaiah lifts his eye-patch and reveals the ability to strike Rintrah down with an eye-blast.But just then Dr Strange himself takes a hand and encloses himself and Silver Dagger in a mystic dome. SG says he's come to take back the eye he gave him which DrS is using to replace the 1 *he* lost. But now SG says it was all a cunning plan. He was pretending to be repentant until he could escape from Agamotto's realm with another eye. Since then he led a small devout army against some werewolves but when he was bitten his troops turned on him. But he used his new eye control their minds. And he's using the eye now to show Strange all these events.Dr Strange realises that Curwen has the Eye Of Agamotto. But recovered Rintrah points out that Stephen is wearing that gem. However Isaiah explains that DrS used to wear a different Eye until his mentor the Ancient One gave him an upgrade (Strange Tales #127) and gave the old 1 back to Agamotto. And now SG's stolen it and implanted it in his eye socket.What follows is a duel of Agamotto's Eyes. 2 beams of force meet in a stalemate, but Curwen also throws his silver dagger and Strange can't spare the effort to defend against it. However the dagger is shattered by Clea who has returned to check that Stephen survived the vanishing and the earthquakes. But the effort of penetrating his mystic dome took a lot out of her so the rest of the battle is up to DrS. Pip and Rintrah have dealt with Curwen's henchmen but they can't help Stephen either.The exchange of coruscating forces causes SG's speechifying platform to crumble beneath the combatants, but they continue to fight floating in the air. But suddenly Silver Dagger's force beam turns back and splits into the bars of a cage around him. And his eye goes blind. Agamotto has arrived (in the hookah-smoking caterpillar form he uses in SG-stuff). He explains that he *let* Isaiah steal the old Eye to see if he'd really reformed, which he hadn't. So now he takes SG back to his realm.Clea and Stephen apologise to each other, and kiss and make up before Strange has to go back to the Thanos problem.2nd story:-The Book of the Vishanti: A Gathering of Fear Part 2Again some different creators:- Jean-Marc Lofficier is Roy's writing partner, Larry Alexander pencils, Tim Dzon inks and Clem Robins letters.6 of the 7 Fear Lords are left at the meeting after Scarecrow walked out last issue. He, Kkallakku the Fear-Eater and the Lurking Unknown explained themselves then, and now the host, the Dweller In Darkness, calls on the mysterious Nox to tell her story.She explains that she derives pleasure rather than nourishment out of inspiring fear in mortals. She also works more indirectly, which is why few know of her. She claims to be older than the Olympian Gods but once posed as Aphrodite to seduce Ares and bear him twin sons Deimos and Phobos (terror and fear), but they were killed by Hercules and Thor. She guided Psycho-Man to create his Fear/Doubt/Hate device, but he was defeated by the Fantastic Four. She arranged for the demon Throg to find the Nightmare Box, but he too met defeat at the hands of Man-Thing and Dakhim The Enchanter.D'Spayre interrupts to say he was working for the Dweller when he too was defeated by Man-Thing and Dakhim along with his disciple Jennifer Kale and Spider-Man. He claims that MT was created not only to protect the Nexus Of Realities but also as a weapon against the Fear Lords, because everyone knows that whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch.Now it's the turn of Nightmare to interrupt. He pours scorn on the others and says that he feeds on fear when humans are asleep, but is careful to allow his victims to recover to maintain his supply. D'Spayre points out that Nightmare has been defeated many times by Dr Strange and others, and Nox reminds him he was swatted like a fly by Eternity.Nightmare retaliates by asking the Dweller to recount *his* defeats by mortals. The Dweller In Darkness claims they were mere setbacks, and his overall plan is still progressing.Which he will describe to them next issue.


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Strange bedfellows Part 2
Last issue Dr Strange, Sorcerer Supreme and 4 other mystics (Agatha Harkness plus cat Ebony, Dr Druid, Scarlet Witch and Shaman) were sent back to the home dimension to see what they could do about Magus putting Earth's population in stasis prior to merging the universe with a duplicate which he could then control. They met Sleepwalker who was working remotely with 4 telepaths (Jean Grey, Moondragon, Prof X and Psylocke) back on Galactus' spaceship in the distant dimension, who were working on waking the people up.But then they went with Stephen Strange to check on Clea and others back in his Sanctum. And there they were attacked by a horde of minor demons working for someone who claimed to be Dr Strange, Master Of The Mystic Arts, and wearing the 'superhero' outfit from DrS vol 1 #177-183. They were all knocked out and now awake to find themselves inside the Sanctum ...... where still unconscious Stephen is strung up on a stage and the others are mystically bound watching the floor show. The other Strange wakes him with a whip and reveals that he's actually the version from Counter-Earth created by the High Evolutionary on the opposite side of the Sun (Marvel Premiere #1 featuring Warlock). Stephen Strange's history unfolded there much as it did here except that Baron Mordo succeeded in killing the Ancient One, after which Dr Strange killed *him*. He studied the Ancient One's books but never learned how to travel to other dimensions and so never met folk like Dormammu and Nightmare. He donned the 'superhero' disguise as Necromancer, planning to conquer his world. Seeking more power he found a way to reach Eternity, but was easily defeated and absorbed. From within Eternity he watched as Counter-Earth was towed away (as explained in Marvel Two-In-One #63) and put in the Beyonders' museum. And then saw it destroyed by Thanos when he had the Infinity Gauntlet (as revealed in Warlock & Infinity Watch #4).Nothing daunted Counter-Strange planned to conquer the main Earth if he could get free from Eternity. Which happened in Infinity War #5 when Galactus sent Gamora into Eternity to wake him from *his* Magus-caused coma. When Big G retrieved Gamora C-S managed to slip out with her, taking some of Eternity's mystic energy with him. He wound up in the dimension DrS visited in Strange Tales #133 where Stephen had helped Nazaka overcome her evil sister Shazana to rule the place. Counter-Stephen defeated them both and brought loads of demons from there with him to Earth. He entered DrS's Sanctum and found Stephen's Doppelganger there, and killed him. However he found that Strange's books and artefacts refused to work for him. So he mentally contacted Magus and offered his services. Magus agreed on condition that he killed the Sorcerer Supreme. (Our DrS realises that Magus will of course eliminate C-S once he's served his purpose.)Counter-Strange strikes with the Vapours Of Valtorr, but our Strange twists that spell to cause a flash of light which appears to obliterate him and his companions but instead transports them (and some air) to an asteroid. Agatha Harkness is in a trance because her soul is in her familiar Ebony still on Earth, and Stephen intends to use that link to get them home again. But on Earth Ebony is running from rampaging demons and their 2 minds have become too confusingly tangled for Agatha to act as an anchor. Even as DrS senses a demon about to kill the cat he blind-jumps his team to Earth before their air runs out and saves the cat/witch combo.Leaving the others to handle the demons DrS heads back to his Sanctum where he finds his bull-alien student Rintrah trapped in bands of mystic energy. He frees him but is rewarded with a magic blast. This is really a Doppelganger, and it was all a trap set by Counter-Strange who joins in the assault. And the Dop turns out to be a replacement DrS-Dop in magic disguise. But DrS successfully encase his Dop in solid energy. C-S flees out the window followed by DrS. C-S then unleashes his Eternity-energy. But it's too much for a mere mortal to handle and he explodes.Stephen now rejoins the others, including Miss Harkness back to her normal self. They've rounded up all the demons and now Dr Strange sends them back to their own dimension. (He also intends to restore Nazaka to her throne again.) AH elects to stay on Earth to deal with any leftover demons. DrS creates a portal for himself and the others back to Galactus' ship for the showdown in IW#6.


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Footnote to Infinity
The Infinity Gauntlet event is over and Dr Strange and friends are holding a celebratory party in his Greenwich Village house. His regular (Clea, Rintrah and Wong) and semi-regular (Imei Chang, Morgana Blessing, Sara Wolfe, Topaz and brother Victor Strange) cast are there, and Dr Druid and Scarlet Witch have hung around after IG. Though Stephen Strange wonders why they're celebrating since most of them don't remember it.Victor is a vampire and he and his love Morgana plan to slip away for a bit of consensual blood-feeding (and presumably sex). Wanda Maximoff will be heading back to the West Coast Avengers in LA after the party, and Anthony Druid will be off to Wales. Rintrah accidentally refers to Imei, Sara and Wong as safely back (from being among the half of the population of the universe that Thanos deleted with the power of the Infinity Gems) forgetting that they don't remember anything about it. Imei and Wong announce that they're getting married in 6 months in Tibet. But then, as one would expect, the party gets interrupted.Pip The Troll teleports in with Gamora (who DrS has never met). They're not here for the party. Instead they want Doc to help them find their pal Adam Warlock, and if necessary kill him. The 3 retire to Strange's inner Sanctum and the duo confirm what Stephen had been expecting - the godlike power of the Infinity Gems has driven him insane. The Sorcerer Supreme takes a moment to prepare, and then when Clea and Rintrah enter to see what's going on they find the room empty.Strange tracks Warlock's powerful psychic emissions and they soon find him in space nearby - juggling with the planets of the Solar System! DrS can't figure out if Adam has shrunk the planets, or he and they are now millions of miles tall. Pip tells him that Adam has been practising with the Reality Gem so the planets are simultaneously here small enough to be played with and also full size in their normal orbits. Warlock now lets normal reality resume and deigns to talk to them.He tells them that he knew all about their mission but saw no reason to stop them. But he also points out that he's done nothing to warrant their fears. Pip points out that he retroactively created the Great Annihilator near the centre of the Galaxy (presumably the supermassive black hole), and Adam says it was to give astrophysicists something interesting to think about. Gamora cites the gigantic dinosaur bones he's buried in Wyoming. Adam says these are just pranks, and Stephen has to agree with him.So DrS says they'll be going, but Warlock asks them to stay. Strange finds he can't magic them away, and Adam points out that now he's a god what he wants happens. He wants them here to witness his ultimate miracle - he'll make everyone in the universe good by draining them of competitiveness and selfish ambition. Stephen objects that without these darker sides of their personalities sentient beings will become apathetic and wither away. Plus the standard argument that you can't be good without the ability to choose not to be evil.Adam dismisses all objections as trivial and prepares to work his magic. But now the Sorcerer Supreme reveals what he did in his moment to prepare. He releases the Eye Of Agamotto from it's Amulet round his neck, plus many other artefacts he had hidden in there. Warlock uses the Time Gem to take them to the distant future of the dying Earth, but Strange opens the Book Of The Vishanti and casts a spell that reverses the effect. The Space Gem expels them from the Galaxy, but the Scroll Of Watoomb summons the Winds Of Watoomb to take them back. The expanded Orb Of Agamotto protects them from distortions caused by the Reality Gem. The Mind Gem shows Stephen the good he could have done if he'd remained a surgeon rather than taking up the mystic arts, but the Eye Of Agamotto reminds him how often he's saved the world. Then Warlock resorts to the Power Gem, but DrS uses all his talismans in concert to counter the attack. (As well as those already mention there are the Wand Of Watoomb, the Book Of Eibon, the Darkhold, the Purple Gem and 2 other gems at opposite ends of a stick.)As his defence starts to fail Dr Strange remembers that Warlock hasn't used the Soul Gem against him yet, the 1 that he had from very early in his career. Strange uses it as a gateway to Adam's own soul and lets him see his intended future:- Triumphing over DrS and killing him and imposing goodness. But then seeing a universe of dispirited beings. And the god changes his mind.He apologises to the trio and tells them he will consider things more carefully in future. He thanks his 2 friends for what they did for his own good, and asks them to continue being his moral compass.Stephen Strange takes his leave of them with his talismans in tow. But he wonders if he should turn back and help to keep an eye on Adam. However Eternity pops up and tells him not to bother. He didn't interfere previously because Strange vs Warlock was already enough strain on the cosmos. But now he *will* take a hand and take the Gems into his own possession for safe-keeping. DrS worries that *that* tussle will *really* threaten the universe. But Eternity says he's going to bring Adam to trial, and fades away.So the good Doctor and his talismans just go home to the party.


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Blood relations
In the cathedral on Paradise Omega Dr Strange is allowing Moondragon and other followers of the Goddess to view (without sound) in the Orb Of Agamotto the gathering of heroes in Avengers Mansion. Heather Douglas leaves to mentally inform Goddess what they've seen, and the others follow her. Left alone DrS can indulge some personal impulses as long as they don't conflict with Goddess' plan. He uses the Orb to check up on his house in Greenwich Village and finds Wong and his fiancée Imei Chang there. Turning up the sound he hears the news they're watching and realises that his vampire brother Victor is still killing people.Because he's not needed at them moment Stephen Strange sends his astral body to his Sanctum where he finds that Imei and Wong have already left. We see that they've gone to Victor Strange's lover Morgana Blessing. Stephen has the same idea. When the duo get there Morgana attacks them with a stake thinking it's Vic. They calm her down then Dr Strange arrives and takes over Wong's body. Morgana tells them that Vic has been continuing his vampire hero role, draining the blood of violent criminals caught in the act, supplanting it with blood from her fridge and the occasional sip from *her* neck. But since crime stopped (due to the Goddess) he's been hunting those he knew had committed crimes earlier. Stephen realises that's how he got round Goddess' edict, because he thought he was doing good. Morgana says she tried to stop him in case he killed an innocent man but they argued and he moved out.Stephen as Wong leaves Imei with Morgana and catches a cab back to his house where he dons his original plain Cloak Of Levitation and Amulet Of Agamotto. On a hunch he flies to the now-ruined building where Victor's dead body was originally stored. True enough Khiron is there with the unconscious body of a man he says he saw shoot someone last week. Vic and 'Wong' fight until the man revives and starts speaking in Spanish. Vic realises that the killer had spoken English so he had just been about to kill an innocent who just looked like the guy. Morgana turns up with the stake, and Imei trying to stop her. Vic grabs the stake and kills himself with it. Morgana tries to kill herself with a knife but this time Imei *does* stop her. Stephen as Wong says he'll bury his brother himself. But he feels the pull of the Goddess.Story 2: Stand-off (Part 3 of 3 of a tale of Kyllian Boddicker)Script/pencils/inks Geoff Isherwood. Letters Diana Albers.Last issue Kyllian defeated the Centaurian sent by Graeco-Roman war goddess Bellona. Now she comes to rescue him. Her enemies are the 3 Celtic gods that empower him, but she realise now that he is just a lad and possibly she can *use* him rather than oppose him. She leaves with her champion and returns to the prophetess Sybilla whose vision set her on this path originally. But she doesn't wait for the next vision which shows her kissing Kyllian.


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A gauntlet hurled
In Infinity Gauntlet #1 Silver Surfer crashed through the famous roof window of Dr Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and collapsed from the effort of getting there. When revived he warned Stephen Strange that Thanos had found the 6 Soul Gems (which he renamed the Infinity Gems and embedded in an Infinity Gauntlet) and he intended to wipe out half the population of the universe. Later in that issue Thanos did make half the population vanish with a snap of his fingers, and the impact on Surfer's cosmic senses was to render him unconscious again. And Stephen's manservant Wong was 1 of the disappeared.Stephen dismisses his worries about an argument with his love Clea that we saw just the beginning of at the end of last issue (but which we'll learn more about next issue) and about missing Wong, and instead worries about his new patient. Now his alien apprentice Rintrah bursts in, fully-immersed in his favourite human disguise as James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause. He's been out shopping with Wong's fiancée Imei Chang, and she's gone too along with lots of other people. The Doctor is unsure how to cure the comatose alien Surfer but he feels that SS's help will be vital to dealing with the crisis. So he risks entering the Surfer's mind to get him out of his coma.Inside is a starscape but SS's home planet Zenn-la is nearby. Silver Surfer on his Surfboard (astral version of both) bars the way saying that opposing Thanos or trying to get back the missing souls is hopeless. Sunk in despair he adds that his whole life as Herald of Galactus has been a waste of time. But Strange finds Surfer's blows strangely weak and it is easy to banish him out of the way.On the planet he locates Norrin Radd with his love Shalla-Bal. She points to the Zenn-Lavians' perfect world where their needs are all provided for by an automatic system, freeing them to pursue whatever life goals they wish. But Norrin wants to be challenged by life. Then Galactus arrives to grant him his wish. In order to stop the World-Eater from devouring Zenn-La, Radd persuades Big G to make him his Herald to seek out suitable worlds for him. And the Silver Surfer is born.Now Surfer returns to confront Strange and says that his sacrifice was pointless because Galactus destroyed Zenn-La later anyway (as he found out in his 1982 1-shot, but he gave Shalla-Bal the power to restore it). So DrS decides to let the Eye Of Agamotto show SS a timeline where he acted differently.In this version Norrin Radd can't take the pain of transformation and begs for it not to continue, so Galactus atomises him instead. Then he hoovers up the life-energy of the world leaving it barren. Along the way all the inhabitants die of course, and Shalla dies asking Galactus what happened to Norrin. Eventually the G reaches Earth, and there is no rebellious Surfer to stop him consuming that world as well. And without the example of Silver Surfer he doesn't create later Heralds to continue softening his impact on the universe.Surfer has been brought back to his senses. He now realises he did make a difference, and he takes back the mantle of responsibility for what he can do with his power in the future. (Maybe Strange should have just brought an astral Spider-Man to talk to him.) Now it's Stephen's turn to snap his fingers and they're back in the real world. And Norrin Radd girds his loins for IG#2.This issue also sees the return of the irregular Book Of The Vishanti backup revealing background facts about the Marvel mystical universe. This time it's part 1 of a new chapter A Gathering Of Fear.It has some different creators from the main story:- Jean-Marc Lofficier is Roy's writing partner here, Larry Alexander does the pencils, and Clem Robins letters.There are 7 Fear Lords in the Marvel Universe and they recently gathered for a meeting in the Halls Of Fear, home of the Dweller In Darkness (from Thor #229-230 and Dr Strange (1974) #30-37). After apparently several days of a silent staring contest the host finally suggests someone should speak.1st goes the Lurking Unknown who boasts of feeding off the fears of worlds, but admits to 1 defeat in Asgard where Odin summoned him to test the worthiness of Jane Foster to become an immortal Asgardian (Thor #136). Jane *was* afraid but Thor and Sif drove him away.Kkallakku is lord of the Kkallakki Fear-Eaters, 1 of whom failed to instil fear in Silver Surfer but was led to Earth where he also failed with the Captain (Steve Rogers), Thing, Thor and then Daredevil (the Man Without Fear). He then died from lack of sustenance. (These things happened in tales in Marvel Comics Presents #1-4.) The Kkallakki have stayed away from Earth since then, but would welcome any alliance for revenge.The Scarecrow is a resident of Earth who *aided* Thing against the demon Kallumai. (Scarecrow's previous career encompassed Dead Of Night #11, Marvel Two-In-One#18 and Marvel Spotlight #26. He claims the Scarecrow who débuted way back in Tales Of Suspense #51 is a mortal imposter.) He warns the others to stay away from his planet before leaving the group. But the other 6 intend to continue with their plan (which we'll find out more about in upcoming issues).


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Is there a Doctor not in the house?
New York's suffering a blizzard in August (because Thanos' temper tantrum in Infinity Gauntlet #2 changed Earth's orbit and started an Ice Age). Dr Strange's disciple Rintrah brings home to the Sanctum Sanctorum a 6-pack of beer (that Pip The Troll sent him out for before last issue) to discover DrS, Clea and Dr Druid chanting a spell which brings Scarlet Witch into their midst. She remembers Thanos killing her (amongst many other heroes in IG#4) but Stephen Strange tells her he whisked her out of the way in time (so he must have got back from last issue's enforced time-trip to the Ancient Egypt and Cleopatra in time to do that). However he's only just managed to bring her here, and now he needs her help.He explains that Adam Warlock and Silver Surfer have asked him (early in IG#5) to locate as many of the heroes that Thanos defeated as he can, those that aren't actually dead. He has the shards of glass that used to be Thor, and Dr Doom who just stands like a statue. Strange has deduced that Doom's condition is due to Thanos' blast reacting with something unique to Doom's nature, and he and Druid will take Doom back to the place of his 'origin' to seek a cure. Meanwhile he wants Wanda Maximoff and Clea to see if they can reconstitute the Thunder God. Rintrah as usual asks what he can do, and as usual his master ignores his offer to help.DrS takes Doom and Druid through the air towards their destination. Anthony Druid asks Stephen why he didn't bring his love Clea along, especially after their recent argument of Strange also side-lining *her* (which I'm not sure how this DrD knows about). The Sorcerer Supreme answers that the 3 Doctors have something in common - a Tibetan origin. We now get another explanation of how the Ancient One empowered Dr Druid as a test run for Dr Strange (as revealed in Avengers Spotlight #37), and Druid asks if Doom's origin is tied up with theirs. But Strange says no, it just also happened in Tibet.They fly past the Ancient One's lamasery and land in front of a cave where live the monks who turned Victor Von Doom into the armoured Dr Doom. The monks come out to greet their former master. Strange reminds Druid (and us) that Doom's face was scarred in a science experiment. Turning his back on science Victor turned instead to his mother's sorcerous heritage. He sought out these monks and learned all their secret knowledge, and the pupil became the master. He got them to forge his armour and the mask which hides his scars. And then he left them as Dr Doom. (Strange repeats that Doom wasn't another test run for himself, but Druid asks if he's sure that they weren't both test runs for Doom.)The monks take Doom's body inside and allow Strange to levitate it into a furnace of mystic fire wherein his armour was forged. Stephen believes that only by being bathed in the flames of his 'birth' can Thanos' magic be reversed. But then they hear shots outside and the 2 Dr's rush out to see Chinese soldiers shooting at some monks who were greeting them. Apparently they have been sent to force the monks to use their well-known magic to save China from the Ice Age. DrS uses the Shield Of The Seraphim to protect the monks from further harm, and then the Rings Of Raggadorr to trap the troops.But when they return to the cave they discover another problem. Black tendrils have snaked out from the furnace and coalesced into an ebony version of Dr Doom. Strange realises this is Victor's shadow-self housing all that he has previously repressed. This Doom is good, and he's determined not to let his evil self be reborn. Stephen  argues that they need the whole Doom to help save the universe, but shadow-Doom is determined to destroy his body.As Strange uses the Shield Of The Seraphim again Dr Druid draws a Druidic circle around himself and calls on the 3 Celtic war goddesses Badb, Macha and Morrigan. DrS uses the Winds Of Watoomb to try to disperse the substance of shadow-Doom, but his hatred for his other half is too strong. Stephen staggers into Anthony's circle, which holds off their foe for a while. But that protection is about to shatter ...... when the real Doom strides from the furnace, and the 3 Doctors hurl their mystic might (including that of the triple-goddess) at the shadow until it is vanquished by the light. Stephen says that it has returned to Doom where it belongs. It's actions proved that it was not the unalloyed good it claimed, just as Victor is not all evil. Dr Doom may have tried to take the Soul Gems from Thanos (IG#4) for his own selfish reasons, but he may *also* have been trying to save the universe. Doom says he is ready to rejoin the fight against Thanos. But Strange asks him to stay here until he's needed. (And maybe it's significant that Victor agrees to it.)


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An eye for an eye
Last issue Galactus (and his Herald Nova) abducted Dr Strange to help find out what happened to Eternity, but in the process rendered him unconscious. It ended with Silver Surfer turning up and (only partly) getting the wrong idea. The 3 conscious beings squabbled in Silver Surfer #67 until Stephen Strange woke up and calmed them down. All 4 teamed up in Galactus' huge round spaceship to go off on an adventure.Galactus brings Norrin Radd (and us) up-to-date with the situation. He and Frankie Raye had found Eternity floating comatose in the Dimension Of Manifestations (in Infinity War #1).  They'd followed a trail of emanations through several dimensions but then ran into mystical barriers they couldn't cross. So Big G decided to enlist Earth's Sorcerer Supreme to solve the problem (giving him no option).But they haven't started off yet because Galactus now wants Strange to give him the Eye Of Agamotto. Stephen calls forth the Eye from the Amulet Of Agamotto to rest on his brow. But he says *he* must be the 1 to use it. He can't *give* it anyone else because he only has it on loan from Agamotto himself. Surprisingly Galan of Taa agrees. DrS sits in a control chair and wills the Eye to transmit what it sees into the ship's sensory system. But on the 1st attempt the control room is filled with light. And when normal vision is resumed Dr Strange and the Eye Of Agamotto have gone.Back on Earth Rintrah is trying to use the Orb Of Agamotto to contact his master Strange when Sara Wolfe pops in to see why Clea hasn't shown up at the Memorial Metaphysical Institute. Then the Orb develops bulges which turn into tentacles which grab him. But Clea joins them to cast the Flames Of The Faltine to save him. However she only meant for the tentacles to go but the whole Orb disappears.Rintrah is surprised to see her because he thought she and her little 'fairy' Faltine companion Flyx had left for the Dark Dimension (last issue). It seems she hasn't gone yet and she explains that before last issue she used her Watchfire to see what was happening there and found only total blackness. She doesn't know whether it's a trick by her mother Umar or whether some Age Of Darkness has descended. So she started looking for allies to help her. As mentioned last issue she and Flyx already went to the Purple Dimension to get help from Aggamon. But now she belatedly asks Rintrah if *he*'ll help her. But Rintrah says he's got to stay here while Doc is away with Galactus. Clea too would like to help her husband but she's needed in the homeland she used to rule. So now she and Flyx really do exit to the 6th Dimension to find Tiboro.Stephen Strange himself awakens in the presence of Agamotto The All-Seeing in his hookah-smoking caterpillar guise. Agamotto has taken back possession of his Eye and Orb (and the earlier Eye that was also in Strange's Mansion). He's very unhappy with Doc letting Galactus and Rintrah use them. Doc says he needs the Eye to help Galactus find out what happened to Eternity - the whole universe is in danger. The caterpillar could care less. It's not *his* universe and anyway he's got it all 'on tape' in his memory bubbles so he can see the interesting bits whenever he wants.The Sorcerer Supreme makes a grab for the 3 artefacts with the Crimson Bands Of Cytorrak and the Roving Rings Of Raggadorr. But Agamotto casually dispels them and imprisons DrS within the Orb. He can't escape. Spells invoking Agamotto or his his pals Hoggoth and Oshtur or their collective Vishanti are obviously not going to work here. But he does manage to use the Orb's own energy to send out a magic 'fishing line' which brings Galactus' spaceship here.Big G also isn't happy to be dragged into this weird dimension. (Nova and Silver Surfer are off scouring normal space for the missing magician.) Agamotto and Galan (as Aggie remembers him) tussle over the sorcerer. Galactus' eye-bolts destroy the giant mushroom that his opponent sits on, but the mystic caterpillar turns into a more aggressive form with 1 giant eye with which he can blast back. Probably because Agamotto's distracted, Dr Strange is able to escape the Orb but then has to dodge ricochetting eye-blasts as he sends mystic bolts of his own in random directions. The 2 huge foes are now grappling hand-to-hand. G blows A's head off, but the caterpillar just regenerates it. However he's not pleased to see his hookah and several memory bubbles have been damaged.Then Stephen's plan bears fruit as all the expended energy has drawn the attention of Hoggoth and Oshtur. They tell their co-Vishanti off for lowering himself to Galactus' level and engaging in a battle that is damaging adjacent dimensions. He may be the supreme power in his own dimension but the multiverse needs Galactus and Strange to succeed in their quest. They remind him of the 1st Law of the Vishanti - with great power must also come great responsibility. (Now we know where Peter Parker got his mantra from.)Chastened Agamotto reverts to his friendly caterpillar form and the other 2 Vishanti leave. He lets Dr Strange have the 3 talismans and he sends him and Galactus to follow G's spaceship out of his dimension. Of course when they all reappear in space Stephen is about die from lack of oxygen. But Big G gathers him in safely as Nova and Surfer join them, and they all enter the spherical spaceship. Strange takes his place in the control chair again and this time connecting the Eye to Galactus' navigation system goes without a hitch. And they open a portal to other dimensions to follow the energy trail to whoever attacked Eternity.Continues in Infinity War #2 and Silver Surfer #68.


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The Heart of Darkness
The astral form of Doctor Strange appears in Brooklyn to summon Ghost Rider; at Pantheon Headquarters to call Professor Hulk; in deep space to enlist the Silver Surfer for an important mission. At his home in Greenwich Village, Strange explains to the others that he has lost most of his mystic abilities while his enemy Dormammu has grown in power, regained dominance of the Dark Dimension and imprisoned Clea, while preparing to invade our reality. When they agree to team up to stop the evil, Strange transports them to the Dark Dimension within sight of Dormammu’s Citadel. They are immediately attacked by the Mindless Ones, who are able to act intelligently thanks to Dormammu’s control. The heroes are overwhelmed until Strange breaks the villain’s control, leaving his minions mindless once more. At the threshold of the Citadel, Hulk battles the G’uranthic Guardian (“I am really sick and tired of fighting big rocky guys”), allowing the others to take action. Strange dispatches the Surfer to enter and rescue Clea, while he draws Ghost Rider’s essence into his own body. Fortified by the Rider’s mystic power, Strange challenges the giant Dormammu to battle. When the archfiend seizes him, Strange springs his trap: leaving Ghost Rider’s essence to continue fighting in Strange’s body, the Sorcerer Supreme’s astral form enters Dormammu’s soul to confront the villain’s ego. This ego explains that here in the Dark Dimension Chaos is life and Order means death and his mission is to conquer the universe of Chaos. Strange strikes back with the Eye of Agamotto, revealing the ego’s true twisted form and calling on Dormammu to renounce his evil. Meanwhile, outside, Strange/Ghost Rider, Hulk, Silver Surfer and the freed Clea attack the monster’s enormous physical form. Annoyed, Dormammu announces he is leaving the Dark Dimension to them, while he seeks a greater dimension to conquer, and he vanishes. Strange restores Ghost Rider’s essence to his body and Clea tells Strange she will remain to help her people rebuild the Dark Dimension. Back in New York, the Silver Surfer returns Hulk and Ghost Rider to their point of origin while Strange gains some much needed rest—only to awoken by the sound of protestors outside his home, denouncing him as the servant of Satan.


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The Alexandria quatrain
In Dr Strange's Greenwich Village Sanctum Pip The Troll is fed up hanging with around watching Doc in a mystic trance with no-one to talk to because he's sent Doc's assistant Rintrah to get some beers. So he starts talking to himself, helpfully bringing us up to speed.In Infinity Gauntlet #3 Stephen Strange portalled a load of heroes to the space throne palace Thanos built for his love Death. Some have been sent to attack the Titan directly while the others have been scattered around the place. Pip claims DrS is here as a mystic anchor for them all, but in IG#3 it said he would telepathically monitor what was happening and keep Adam Warlock (who's busy elsewhere) updated, and he'd retrieve any heavily-wounded combatants. He and we can see the attack via the magically enlarged Eye Of Agamotto.Many many light years away Thanos prepares to freeze his assailants in time (at the start of IG#4). But before he does he casually gets rid of Strange who might be able to reverse his action. With a clap of his hands he sends a temporal maelstrom to carry the Sorcerer away. Pip keeps clear but Stephen's lover Clea rushes in to grab him, and gets dragged away with him.The maelstrom is whirling them backwards through time. DrS tries to get a purchase on the centuries whipping past. With a spell he manages to plant a hook on something magical but it requires Clea's (diminished since she's no longer Queen of the Dark Dimension) mystic power added to his to get them out of the timestorm and into somewhen.Initially they are blinded by a light, but when his eyes clear Stephen recognises the giant Lighthouse Of Pharos, 1 of the 7 Wonders Of The Ancient World in Alexandria, Egypt (completed sometime after 280 BC and destroyed by earthquakes leading up to 1323 AD). This is obviously early in its lifetime and Strange reckons that the magic that he hooked onto is the large collection of mystic scrolls in the fabled Library Of Alexandria. Legend has it that the Library was burned down in 48 BC during Julius Casear's civil war with Pompey. And would you believe it they see a building on fire with scraps of burning papyrus floating in the air. Clea grabs 1 and recognises a minor Faltine incantation  on it. But the Sorcerer Supreme wonders what source of magic did he detect here if the Library's magic tomes are all destroyed.They levitate to the Royal palace where they see a war going on between Egyptian and Roman soldiers. But they are spotted by a magician called Zota of Pergamum, and we learn that Ceasar is interfering in a separate Egyptian civil war between Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra VII (*the* Cleopatra we've all heard about), and Zota's on Ptolemy's side while Caesar supports Cleo. (The situation is complicated by the then-common arrangement that Cleopatra is also Ptolemy's wife and co-ruler, which this comic doesn't mention.)Our duo burst in upon Caesar and Cleopatra. Stephen is confused that Cleo doesn't recognise him from Strange Tales #124. But then he realises that she was with Mark Antony then and so that must be about 10 years in the future. He remembers that he met her in modern New York where she'd been sent by Zota. Cleo tells them that the fire was just a dockside export warehouse for grain and books, and Stephen remembers that other sources say that the Library was in existence centuries later and suffered a slow decline. So he and Clea fly off follow the mystic emanations to find it.And find it they do. The Sorcerer uses a spell to seek out the Scroll Of The Vishanti, but when he locates it he turns round to see Clea trapped by Zota in his Mirror Of Mysteries. He's a bit peeved because he's been searching for that Scroll for months. He threatens to break the mirror with a hammer, killing the woman inside. Clea tells Stephen not to hand over the Scroll, but her lover gives it to him. However as soon as Zota picks it up he's KO'd by a shock. Strange now easily frees Clea and reveals that he figured out the Scroll was hiding from Zota and would refuse to be handled by him. He'll now leave the magician for their next meeting when he will permanently lose all his magic.The Sorcerer Supreme uses the Scroll to contact an anchor in the 20th Century. Clea wonders who then could have such power. But Stephen releases the Scroll to return to its place in the Library and the duo are whisked forward in time ...... to be greeted by Pip and Dr Druid, who explains how he recently (Marvel Spotlight #37) escaped from a time-bubble (and emerged much younger) and learned that he had been given his powers by the Ancient One as a test-run for Dr Strange. This is why DrS was able to give him *his* power sent across time to get them home. Now Strange gets back to being an anchor for the heroes attacking Thanos.Backup tale:- The Book Of The Vishanti: A Gathering Of Fear part 3.Written by Roy Thomas & Jean-Marc Lofficier. Pencils Larry Alexander. Inks Tim Dzon.Now it's the turn of the Dweller In Darkness to relate his history to fellow Fear Lords D'Spayre, Kkallakku, the Lurking Unknown, Nightmare and Nox.He claims that he and Nightmare were both ectoplasmic beings from Everinnye, a universe higher then the 6th Dimension. Nightmare accuses the Dweller of embracing the Way Of The Shamblu (which a Handbook describes as disembodying one's head and existing in physical form). The Dweller points out that Nightmare has also degraded himself by moving to the lower universes.He says he came to Earth 20,000 years ago when Kamuu and Zartra ruled Atlantis (then on the surface) and were at war with the Deviants of Lemuria, which provided him with a rich source of fear. But the Atlantean sorceress Zhered-Na sent him into a mystic sleep with the help of Agamotto and the Atlantean god Valka. Even in this state he was able to use the surge of fear when Atlantis sank (caused by the Celestials) to create D'Spayre to do his work including causing the death of Zhered-Na. However the sorceress had already trained an immortal successor Dakimh who fought D'Spayre through the ages. But his minion's activities still fed fear to the Dweller, hastening his reawakening.The Dweller also created other sources of fear including Mr Fear (Zoltan Drago), and things he calls Shade-Thralls which attacked Hercules & Thor and later DrS and Clea. It was that encounter that finally woke the Dweller up, and after that he sent other minions against Strange:- Dream Weaver, Ludi and Ningal.Nightmare scoffs that all the Dweller's attacks have failed, but the other replies that it's all part of a larger plan that will soon come to fruition. 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World enough, and time ...
Dr Strange is in the crowd of followers of the Goddess on Paradise Omega planet as she enters the cosmic egg she has created from 30 Cosmic Cubes and descends into the bowels of the planet (in Infinity Crusade #2). The assembled heroes are convinced of the rightness of her cause, but now that she has gone a part of Stephen Strange remembers that he considered her a threat last issue and went to seek Eternity's help (but that cosmic being refused and wiped what Strange learned about her from his memory). That part sends his astral body out of his mortal frame, and in that form he is free from Goddess' spell. He follows the egg down to the centre of the planet where he finds her in a secret sanctuary (as we also saw in IC#2).Now DrS detects her thoughts spreading out and transforming Paradise Omega, guiding it through accelerated evolution (as the High Evolutionary did (in Marvel Premiere #1) to his Counter-Earth which used to occupy the orbit that Omega does now). Stephen witnesses the rise of humans from cavemen though the civilisations of Egypt, Greece and Rome to the discovery of new continents and religions and then to the Moon landing.But Strange is drawn to a certain Himalayan monastery where he sees the Stephen Strange of this world asking the Ancient One to heal his damaged surgeon's hands. The story unfolds as on Earth with SS seeing the AO's disciple Baron Mordo asking Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension, for help in killing his master. But this time Dormammu chooses Strange as his follower instead. SS accepts and is granted magic powers (and a costume). He kills the Ancient One and then all other major mystics on the planet. He achieves wealth and influence and prepares to bring Dormammu to this dimension.However there is 1 last threat which needs to be dealt with, Goddess. A fight ensues which this Dr Strange seems incapable of winning. But our Strange's feeling that Goddess is secretly evil has grown so he merges his astral body with the new Strange to add his power. But at the last 2nd he realises that he's been duped. This new planet hasn't generated a 2nd Dark Dimension to go with it. And in the only Dark Dimension Dormammu isn't in charge, Clea is and the dark lord is diminished. And with his scheme revealed Dormammu allows the illusion of Goddess, fake Strange and an evolved planet fade away.Dormammu now admits that his plan was to get our Dr Strange to defeat Goddess with Dormammu's added power. He feared that she would become a menace to the Dark Dimension (before he was able to regain control of it). He now asks DrS to willingly become his partner against Goddess. But Stephen will take her possible evil over the known evil of Dormammu so he declines. So the evil lord tries to drag astral Strange into the pocket dimension where he is currently trapped, there to kill him. However DrS counters by starting to pull Dormammu into the human dimension. Dormammu panics because he knows that in his own weakened state Goddess could destroy him there. So he gives up the fight and retreats back 'home'.Then DrS's astral body returns to his human body, and he forgets all this and becomes 1 of Goddess' thralls again.Story 2: Sword and staff (Part 2 of 3 of a tale of Kyllian)Script/pencils/inks Geoff Isherwood. Letters Diana Albers.Last issue the Graeco-Roman war goddess Bellona sent Centaurion (an armoured centaur) against Dr Strange's latest apprentice Kyllian Boddicker because he was powered by ancient Rome's enemies the Celtic gods Cernunnos, Morrigan and Taranis.Now a blast from Centaurion's magic sword lays our hero low. But Kyllian touches the symbol of stone on his chest which causes the road to open up to swallow the centaur. And the water symbol causes a fire hydrant to drench him. But the foe bursts free and fires another blast. The gods' voices tell Kyllian to raise the staff they gave him, which absorbs the blast and then Kyllian sends it back to down the enemy.


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Half Lives 1: Serendipity!
At Pantheon headquarters in the Nevada desert, “professor” Hulk is working on some extensive calculations on the computer when a sudden energy spike causes him to lose all his valuable data. The astral form of Dr. Strange appears before him, revealing that the sorcerer is dying and requesting his help. Hulk leaves a note to his assistants to check the computer and heads for New York in a Pantheon jet, just missing the virus warning on his screen. Arriving at Dr. Strange’s office, Hulk is greeted by a surprisingly lighthearted sorcerer. Dr. Strange explains that the sorceress Salome split him into two beings, the other one being the masked “Strange” and now he desires Bruce Banner’s help in re-merging the two. A suspicious Hulk realizes that this man is an impostor: he is another aetheric energy being known as “Vincent Stevens” searching for a host body to inhabit. Unmasked, this magical “virus” possesses Hulk’s body. The story jumps back two days to the real Dr. Strange, confined to the Forge Canal in his Sanctum Sanctorum, seeking healing from the Salome’s Dance virus. He sent out a mental call to the Hulk but aborted it not wishing to involve another innocent in his struggle this soon after Rick Jones’ wedding to Marlo Chandler. Unfortunately it was this aborted summons that led “Stevens” to the Hulk and “Strange” to Rick Jones. Now a desperate “Strange” appears at the Coliseum casino in Vegas, disrupting a wedding and melting Suzie Berengetti into a pile of protoplasm. Later, as Rick is relaxing in the honeymoon cabin while Marlo is out shopping, “Strange” bursts through the wall and begs Rick to become his host body. Rick refuses, just as the possessed Hulk appears to battle “Strange,” throwing a punch that lands his foe on the beach nearby. Rick is confused that both Hulk and Dr. Strange are acting out of character. “Hulk” tears “Strange” into little pieces and scatters him over the sand but the far-from-defeated doppelganger blasts him back. Exulting in the power and sensation of his new green body, “Stevens” challenges his foe to even greater heights of combat.


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Strange bedfellows
At the end of Infinity War #4 Captain America sent a bunch of mystics back from the energy relay planet to the home dimension to see what they could do about the Magus taking over the Earth, and he asked some telepaths to use Galactus' tech to try to wake Earth's populace from the trance Magus has them in. In #5 we saw the telepaths contacting Sleepwalker for help, and that plotline was continued in his #18.Now we see Agatha Harkness (and her cat Ebony, who's looking strangely white), Dr Druid, Dr Strange, Scarlet Witch and Shaman materialise in New York surrounded by immobile, insensate folk. Shaman detects no breathing or heartbeats. Dr Druid sees 1 woman who was about to be run over by a car (also now frozen). He wants to move her but his Celtic ritual has no effect. Shaman's magic dust doesn't reanimate her. Celtic spells work best with 3 casters so Agatha joins in but can detect no brain activity. DrS tries to see into her soul and detects some other force helping her fight against the evil that engulfs the world. They also see 2 Moons merging in the night sky, and Miss Harkness senses a 2nd Earth merging with this 1. In truth 2 whole universes are merging, and when it's finished Magus and his Doppelganger army will have complete control.Then Sleepwalker turns up. Stephen Strange remembers him as an alien visitor/exile who he met during the Infinity Gauntlet event. But Shaman instinctively attacks and Sleepy strikes back. Agatha cautions Scarlet Witch not to join in because she senses no evil in him, but Strange puts up a Shield Of The Seraphim to protect Michael Twoyoungmen. He then questions the alien but he's suspicious and unforthcoming. DrS accuses him of being a minion of Nightmare but Sleepwalker says he fought that being (in his #12), and the Eye Of Agamotto tells Stephen this is true and he urges his companions to trust this guy.Sleepwalker explains what's been happening. He says his human host has also fallen into stasis (but he doesn't tell them the name Rick Sheridan). Miss H suggests that he might be able to help Prof X and his telepaths, but DrS has realised that they are already working together and it was Sleepwalker he detected in the woman above's mind. Sleepy confirms that he is a conduit for the powers of Jean Grey, Moondragon, Prof X and Psylocke, and that they are trying to free Earth's population from the control of Magus. He came here to investigate why the 5 mystics weren't entranced, but now he returns to the mental task he has been set.Stephen suspects that this will only be a delaying action and that they must soon return to the others to help defeat the Magus himself. But 1st he wants to check on his wife Clea and other friends at his Greenwich Sanctum. The others follow him there. Outside he sees Wong and his fiancee Imei Chang frozen returning from shopping. Dr Druid uses the spare key Strange gave him (during/after IG) and opens the front door. This is peculiar because there are protective spells that should have needed bypassing 1st ...... and then a horde of demons rushes out at them, through the doorway and also smashing through windows. The mystics fight back, including Agatha Harkness whose spell proves the most effective of all. DrS thinks he recognises the foes and wonders if the Sa'rpool in the basement has broken open, but they don't seem like Undying Ones or N'Garai (see #41 and DrS(1974)#45). These are all minor demons and it is only their numbers which are a problem.But then their master makes an entrance claiming to be the real Dr Strange, Master Of The Mystic Arts, dressed like the 'superhero' Strange from DrS vol 1 #177-183. They assume he's 1 of the Magus' Doppelgangers using Strange's old title (and look) rather than his current Sorcerer Supreme. The enemy sends a new wave of demons at them and when Stephen evades them to attack him directly he threatens Imei and Wong with the Sword Of The Ultimate Shadow (never seen before or since). Stephen swoops down to take the blow on his Seraphimic Shield but the magical shock knocks him out. And his companions are all down too.


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To Hela and back
Last issue saw Dr Strange locating heroes who weren't actually killed by Thanos in Infinity Gauntlet #4. He retrieved the glass shards that Thor was reduced to. He also saved Scarlet Witch and tasked her and Clea with figuring out how to recreate the Thunder God from them. He got hold of Dr Doom, seemingly a blasted statue, and spent most of last issue with Dr Druid returning Doom to life with the help of the Tibetan monks who created his armour and taught him much magic. They left Doom there until Adam Warlock should need him.Now Strange and Druid are in another dimension where DrS conjures a portal to bring Hulk here from the end of his #384. Thanos actually shrank Hulk in IG#4 and sent him back to Earth (where he finished his ongoing conflict with Abomination while in miniature form). Now Stephen Strange has brought him here and returned him to the proper size. Currently Hulk has Bruce Banner's intelligence but the combo is still itching to go fight Thanos again. So he's not happy when the Dr's leave him in this dimension to stew for a while.They portal back to the Sanctum Sanctorum where Wanda Maximoff and Stephen's lover Clea have had no luck with Thor. Clea says the fragments don't feel as Asgardian as she expected, and Wanda tells them that the Avengers think the current Thor (now with a beard, a helmet that masks half his face and non-Asgardian speech patterns) isn't the original. (We know he's the stand-in Eric Masterson.)But Scarlet Witch also reminds them that Thor claims that Asgardians came from a mystical land of fire and ice. Dr Strange recognises that as Muspelheim and Niflheim and reckons that's where they need to take Thor's bits. Anthony Druid is ready to accompany him but Stephen says he must be exhausted after the last 2 issues and so he elects to take Clea and Wanda. He uses the Orb Of Agamotto to reveal the Ginnungagap between the between the 2 Asgardian Realms, which is where the Norse Gods were birthed. And they wrap the shards in a cloth and off the 3 portal.Dr Druid also exits the issue at this point, presumably for a kip. That leaves Pip The Troll and Stephen's apprentice Rintrah. The horned alien is once again left cooling his heels (or hooves). His master never trusts him with anything important, nor has any time to train him. Pip notices that the Orb is still active, presumably continuing searching for heroes for DrS to rescue. Suddenly it shows them Drax The Destroyer and Firelord facing a dinosaur (in the deep past where Thanos sent them in IG#4). So they decide to go on a quest of their own.DrS and co find themselves not where they intended as Strange detects interference. Suddenly they are confronted by the 3-headed dog Cerberus, a denizen of Greek mythology not Norse. Scarlet Witch throws a hex which fails to bring the dog bad luck, and the other 2 have to generate mystic chains to keep it off her. Her mutant 'magic' doesn't work here, only 'real' magic. Then the agency behind their side-trip reveals herself, Hela Queen of the Norse Hel, who wants to know why they have invaded her realms of Hel and Niflheim. They explain about seeking Thor's life-essence and she says he's not here nor in Valhalla because he's not dead. And the shards they carry are simultaneously him and not him.Dr Strange then tells her to let them go on with their quest. Hela says the last person to try to give her orders was Pluto, lord of the Greek afterlife, and it cost him (temporarily) his guard dog which she releases from its mystic chains. Clea holds it off with the Flames Of The Faltine while Stephen battles Hela directly. The Death Goddess is amused and impressed by his heroic but futile attempt to force her to let them go. So she calls off Cerberus and allows them to portal to their destination. But she tells Stephen that when he dies she may claim him for her realm for the pleasure of his company.Meanwhile, if that makes sense in multiple eras, Drax and Firelord are defending themselves against 3 dinos when Pip and Rintrah fall on them from a slightly mis-aimed time portal in the sky. The newcomers tell the stranded pair that they're here to rescue them. But then the time-hole closes up, and Rintrah says he can't create another 1 without the Orb Of Agamotto. So now all 4 are trapped in the Jurassic.DrS and his companions arrive at their destination, the misty Ginnungagap between the fires of Muspelheim and the ice of Niflheim. This is where the 1st Frost Giant Ymir arose, and after/from him the 1st Asgardian Buri. Strange magically suspends the bag of Thor-shards over the Gap and repeatedly chants a spell from the Book Of The Vishanti.But the local inhabitants come to investigate what's going on - Frostlings from Niflheim and Fire-Trolls from Muspelheim. Strange tries to appease them by assuring them his group will stay in Ginnungagap and not invade either of their lands. However they somehow know he's here to revive Thor, and both sides have reason to prefer that the Thunder God remains dead, so they throw fire and ice at him. Stephen has difficulty defending himself and keeping the bag of Thor safe, but Clea flies to his aid and diverts the missiles onto the opposite groups. Then they form a defensive duo, but nobody's keeping up the chanted spell ...... but Wanda Maximoff dodges between foes and reaches the suspended bag. She has a good memory for spells after her training with Agatha Harkness and she takes up the chant, ignoring a Frostling creeping up on her. She feels that something's happening even as he raises his fists to smash her to the ground ...... when a flying hammer hits him in the chest. And then returns to the revived current Thor. Faced with Thor and 3 magic-wielders the Frostlings and Fire-Trolls retreat. This Thor owns up to being a replacement named Eric Masterson, but he's still ready for another round with Thanos. Dr Strange welcomes him but asks him to remain here until called upon.Then he senses a call for help from Rintrah, and portals himself and his 2 companions through time and space to where his assistant is with Pip, Drax and Firelord. He takes everybody back to the present and stops off to leave Drax and Firelord with Thor. Then it's back to the Sanctum for everyone else. And along the way he apologises to Rintrah for not giving him worthwhile tasks, and commends him for finding the missing duo and then contacting him across the ages. He promises to spend more time making him a master magician.


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Half Lives 2: Body Slam!
On the beach near Rick Jones’ honeymoon cottage, the Hulk, possessed by Dr. Strange’s aetheric double “Stevens,” is engaged in battle with his counterpart “Strange.” The latter implores Rick to merge with him and give him the power to destroy the invading virus which is “Stevens” and free Hulk. The interloper’s technomagick combined with Hulk’s strength overwhelms “Strange” and “Stevens” shreds his foe into little tiny pieces. Rick continues to refuse the fragmented “Strange” but leaps onto the Hulk’s back to try to distract “Stevens,” earning him a toss in the ocean. The possessed Hulk goes back to hunting down the remaining bits of his foe, which are burrowing into the sand. Meanwhile, the real Doctor Strange is still in his Sanctum Sanctorum, preparing for the final battle with Salome. The Lilin captive Nil offers to help but one of Dr. Strange’s aetheric snares is prematurely sprung, endangering the sorcerer…. Back on the beach, Rick insults Bruce Banner, claiming that Hulk has welcomed this possession to remove him of all responsibility for the rampage. The anger excited allows Bruce Banner’s mind to assert itself and understand what has been happening. At this moment, “Strange,” drawing on his Earth magic through contact with the sand, reconstitutes himself and knocks the Hulk flat on his back. “Stevens’ and “Strange” decide to merge into a partnership and the two mystical beings depart. Rick assures his old friend that what he said was merely a ploy to get him angry and the two wonder is they will ever see these doppelgangers again. In an epilogue, the sorceress Salome, hiding in a remote cave and griping about her betrayal by the Immortals, is suddenly brought before her offended gods, where she pleads for their help in destroying Stephen Strange.


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The Return of the Defenders Part 4: Hot Spell
The Defenders arrive on Hawaii where the Wild One has turned the paradise into an inferno of madness. Namor (in Rick Jones’ body) attacks Shanzar (in Namor’s ebonized body) while the other heroes take on the demonized humans serving the Wild One. Annoyed at the interruption, the Wild One takes a hand in the battle, using his flaming hot rod to run down and apparently kill the heroes. Turns out, at the last moment, Dr. Strange transported them astrally to another dimension, along with the physical forms of Shanzar and Lucien Aster; there they plot with the betrayed villains how best to take down the Wild One. The Defenders return to Hawaii and go to work rescuing the people from the enemy’s apocalyptic chaos, then turn to face the Wild One. The sneering villain takes down the heroes magically, one by one, but there’s a surprise afoot: Dr. Strange is actually Aster in disguise and his body contains a portal to absorb the Wild One into another universe—Shanzar’s strange matter dimension, where the arcane forces overwhelm and imprison him. Shanzar then turns on the heroes, protected by Strange’s magic, and a brief battle ensues—until Shanzar realizes that their fight could possibly cause the Wild One to be set free. The Defenders return to Hawaii, where the geological upheavals are subsiding and the demonized humans returning to normal. Rick Jones’ mind and body are reunited (and Namor is unaccounted for) and Strange reveals that Aster’s effort to hide the dimensional portal cost him his life. The Pantheon takes on the task of rounding up the remaining copies of Aster’s book and the Defenders go their separate ways.


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Story continued from NAMOR: THE BEST DEFENSE.
In the far future, an elderly Doctor Strange walks a desolate
Earth as the last man alive, knowing he must die soon. He plucks out his left
eye and places it in the Eye of Agamotto, allowing him to see again and follow
its path. Use of the Eye alerts the misshapen monsters known as Dormammu's
Spawn and they come for him. They arrive, as he is warned by a mystery voice
from within his bag and he battles them with his staff. Strange summons the
Winds of Watoomb and his foes are swept away; Strange rises and challenges
Dormammu to face him himself. The voice from the bag knows Strange is dying and
wishes him some ironic good luck. After a journey Strange finds what he is
looking for: a crater in the Earth with a jagged length of metal embedded in
it. He goes to sleep to await Dormammu....
Strange has a dream of when he informed Clea that his work as
Sorcerer Supreme outweighed her needs and their marriage so he lost her
forever....
Strange finds himself in the realm of Nightmare, who mocks
him for his arrogance and apparently kills him....
Interlude: The  killer
wearing a ghost costume slays yet another alien in the massive machine....
Dr. Strange awakens to find Dormammu and a handful of his
minions watching him, mocking how his power has diminished over the centuries.
Strange reveals that he spent his magic keeping a friend alive.  The villain breaks Strange's hands and
prepares to deliver a killing blast—but Strange removes the head of the Hulk,
the friend kept alive, from his bag, and the Hulk swallows the magic blast.
Strange informs Dormammu that he magically altered Hulk so that he no longer
consumed gamma rays to strengthen him but magic. And with the jagged piece of
metal, last remnant of the Silver Surfer's board, he has the power to ride a
giant wave if he had the energy and that is what the villain is going to provide....
Hulk explodes in a massive mushroom cloud: Dormammu dissolves: Strange is
hurled through space and time, guided by the board: his mission is to prevent
the Train from being destroyed because that's where it all went wrong: his body
dies and decays: his astral form continues: the body falls away, landing in a
barn in New Mexico: and Doctor Strange comes home with one last chance for his
friends to defend Earth....
Story continued in SILVER SURFER: THE BEST DEFENSE.


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Seeds of Change
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR:
FANTASTIC FOUR #3.
During the War, Captain America and
Bucky are prevented by the (original) Human Torch from detonating the
explosives to destroy the Nazis' invasion tunnel under the English
Channel. Cap, his mind sent back from the future to recover a slice
of the Golden Apple, learns that the Torch facing him is possessed by
the Vision, whose body was constructed from that of the Torch. Cap
sets off the detonator while Torch finds the apple slice in a chest
of Nazi loot and they are both restored to their own time.
Contemporary Cap and Bucky are rescued by Nick Fury and a
submarines....
Praxis CEO Nora Queen is dying and her
doctors can to nothing to save her. Lester, her lackey, carries her
out into the Swiss mountain climate where time is frozen, prolonging
her life....
In old Asgard, Thor escapes from Loki's
trap while the Trickster shows him what is transpiring back in the
palace: Knorda, Queen of the Mountain Giants, has betrayed her own
people to gain Odin's favor. The All-Father cuts one of Iduna's
apples into nine slices; Knorda eats one, gaining immortality, and is
sent to Midgard to found a kingdom, with the remaining apple slices
turned to gold for permanence. Thor races after her to rescue her
from an ambush by a pair of Mountain Giants. She rebuffs his aid and
races off, dropping one of the apple slices which Thor picks up and
is returned to his future. But the Thor of that day is mortally
wounded by the giants who Loki turns to wood (becoming the Harbingers
of Everlasting Winter seen in the two issue #1s of this series).
Hela (Goddess of Death) claims Thor's spirit and Iduna, trying to save
his life, unwittingly seals his body within a tree....
The astral forms of the Avengers meet
up with Dr Strange who takes the apple slices and puts them all
together before vanishing. Thor's spirit also vanishes, along with
his frozen body. The other Avengers also try to reunite with their
bodies but, like the Fantastic Four, they cannot, finding themselves
in an alternate version of New York. They meet up with the astral FF
and Reed Richards thinks that Thor was the one who accidentally
triggered the change. But suddenly, none of the Avengers or FF can
remember Thor....
At Praxis HQ, Nora Queen is transformed
into her true identity of Queen Knorda and her sly assistant Lester
turns out to have been Loki all along and has now created a world for
her to rule, one without superheroes....[Story also features Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Invisible Woman, Thing, and Human Torch but they didn't make it into the synopsis.]
Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR:
FANTASTIC FOUR #4.2. “Fast Lane Part 2 of 4: Feel the
Rush!”
Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg
Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Chris Dickey.
Synopsis: An anti-drug public service
announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics
this month.


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The Domination Factor
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR:
FANTASTIC FOUR #4.
In an alternate reality created for
Queen Knorda, the assembled Avengers and Fantastic Four have just
learned that it was Loki impersonating Dr. Strange to trick them into
recovering the scattered slices of the Golden Apple for him. The God
of Mischief departs and the heroes decide they must try to locate
Thor, who doesn't exist in this reality and who they can barely
remember. They are then surrounded by police bots, ordering them to
disperse; Vision tries to interface with them but the unit explodes,
possibly destroying the android hero. The powerless superbeings split
up: Captain America and Thing to seek out references to Thor in
government databases, Iron Man and Mr Fantastic to locate the time
machine at the Praxis labs, Invisible Woman, Scarlet Witch, and
Human Torch to try to appeal to Queen Knorda....

Meanwhile, Knorda looks back over her
early career in Asgard as a warrior queen and the ensuing long life
on Midgard in a variety of guises and now Loki would wed her but she
wants nothing to do with him....
Steve and Ben arrive at the Hall of
Records but they are spotted by security bots, leading Ben to fight
and Steve to suffer a heart attack....
Sue, Wanda, and Johnny come to Knorda's
throne room where she turns Thor's helmet over to them, the mystical
object which could restore their world, because she is certain it will
do them no good. Sue berates the Queen for abandoning her feminist
ideology to accept a throne from Loki. Security bots capture Sue and
Wanda; Johnny, no hero in this world, panics and flees. Vision hacks
into the mainframe to restrain the ubiquitous bots but Loki soon
drives him out....
Reed and Tony try to program the time
machine but Doctor Doom kills Reed with a laser gauntlet; Tony manages
to reflect the beam back, burning Doom's face. The other heroes
arrive but so do the Harbingers, tearing apart the lab. They are able
to apply some of their 616 powers but Johnny is killed by the giants.
Wanda marshals her magical powers and, using Thor's helmet, manages to
raise the Thunder God from the dead as a wooden giant to defeat the
Harbingers. Knorda arrives with the Golden Apple and Thor powers the
time machine to take her back to the day Odin gave her the apple. She
uses it to banish Loki, allowing Thor to live but costing her the
gift of immortality. In the present, the dying Knorda is escorted by
Hela Goddess of Death), to Valhalla, afterlife of the noble
warriors.....
The effects of the Golden Apple undone,
the story reverts to Reed and Tony on Air Force One, looking at
Norway's gift to the USA: a golden statue of Queen Knorda and it's
the Vision who guides the plane to a safe landing.


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Strange Tales
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR:
FANTASTIC FOUR #2.
A drunken Tony Stark awakens in a
SHIELD mind scanner with Nick Fury preparing to wipe his memories of
SHIELD secrets. Tony risks mentioning the Golden Apple slice; Fury
recognizes it, having seen it years ago (in STRANGE TALES #145) but
he starts the machine anyway, though leaving a bit pensively. He
recalls an incident from the War, when he and Reb Ralston were forced
to labor in an enemy scheme to tunnel under the English Channel;
Captain America and Bucky arrived and freed the prisoners. This point
is when Cap's astral form from the present occupies his past self in
search of the Golden Apple slice. Cap and Bucky head for the
detonator planted by the Nazis to destroy the tunnel should it be
discovered by the allies....
An amnesiac Scarlet Witch cannot recall
her mission from the future or the whereabouts of her brother
Quicksilver so she asks Magneto and learns that he has been injured
in a fight with the X-Men. She rushes to his aid leaving Magneto to
glory in his scheming....
At Praxis headquarters, Lester is also
gloating over his schemes, making Nora Queen suspicious but he
manages to calm her worries....
Many centuries ago in Asgard, Thor is
banished by Odin as the realm is at war with the Mountain Giants. The
traitor Arkin the Weak rides off to inform his beloved Queen Knorda
of the giants. At this moment, Thor's astral form from the future
enters the contemporary Thor and he is ambushed by a band of giants;
Thor rides into a narrow canyon and out through a smaller exit,
trapping the giants within. It is then revealed that this was a plot
by Thor and Odin to defeat their enemies and it worked. Thor rides
off in search of the Golden Apple slice and in the forest he is
entangled by a living tree, thanks to the wicked Loki....
Trapped in the SHIELD mind-wiping
device, Tony finds himself in trouble. Spying a ball-point pen left
by Nick Fury, he manages to unscrew the cap and use the spring to
pick the locks on his restraints and escape. On the way out, he
encounters an agent who reveals that this was a test on Fury's part
and his success has earned him the Golden Apple slice held by
SHIELD....On Magneto's island fortress, the
mind-controlled X-Men (Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel) are
battling the Avengers (Hawkeye, Black Panther, Wasp, Goliath) when
Angel destroys the evil device, freeing the two teams of heroes to
unite against Magneto. Rebelling against his nasty master, Toad sets
the island to explode; he leads Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver to a
getaway plane, kicking Magneto overboard when he tries to board as
well. Among Toad's treasures, Wanda finds the Golden Apple slice and
is drawn back toward her present....Captain America and Bucky race through
the mine tunnels, fighting Germans, and freeing prisoners along the
way. Cap, brooding over Bucky's coming death, races toward the
detonator to destroy the Nazi operation and finds the (original)
Human Torch, blocking the detonator....
Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR:
FANTASTIC FOUR #3.