Strange

Dr. Strange was a secret Champion, 

a lone Defender

 who stood bravely against 

eldritch Lovercraftian forces that were 

constantly plotting to invade, enslave 

and corrupt this plane of Existence.

The people who brushed past him on 

the streets of Greenwich Village would never know that he alone had saved them and their loved ones from madness and destruction, time and again.

His origin, when we learned it, was equally fresh. 

An arrogant and egotistical surgeon 

whose steady hands had been 

ruined in an accident, 

he sought out The Ancient One 

high the mountains of Tibet for 

desperately selfish reasons. 

It was only as he gained 

his arcane powers that he also 

gained compassion, enlightenment 

and purpose.

The Romance and Tragedy of Dr. Strange’s situation was well expressed by director-writer Philip DeGuere near the close of the 1978 Dr. Strange TV pilot movie, 

when Stephen Strange, played by Peter Hooten, asks his mentor Lindmer, played by John Mills, what Choice he has : -

“To Serve Yourself, 

or all of Mankind,” 

Lindmer replies.

“Is that a Choice? 

What will I be called 

upon to Do?”

“Become More Than a Man,” 

Lindmer replies. 

“And to renounce such earthly pleasures as are given 

to Men who are only Mortal — 

the pleasure 

of Ignorance, or 

offspring, 

or an easy death.”

“Will I be asked to give up even Love?”

“The Universe is Love,” 

replies The Ancient One. 

“That, you shall have.”