* In a message originally to Allen Prunty, Jimmy Anderson said:   
      
    > He hasn't always been minor though, has he?   
      
   He has been around according to Wizards 200 Greatest Comic book   
   characters he's #88 so not exactly minor not major just in the middle.   
      
   He's been around for a long time... and there's a lot of controversy   
   from drugs to hare krishnaism.  Read below from the Wiki.   
      
   Allen   
      
      
   ===   
      
   Dr. Stephen Vincent Strange, also known as Doctor Strange, is a   
   fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by   
   Marvel Comics. Created by artist and character conceptualist Steve   
   Ditko, the character first appeared in Strange Tales #110 (cover-dated   
   July 1963). A former neurosurgeon, Strange serves as the Sorcerer   
   Supreme, the primary protector of Earth against magical and mystical   
   threats. Debuting in the Silver Age of comics, the character has been   
   featured in several comic book series and adapted in a variety of   
   media including video games, an animated television show, and films.   
   Inspired by storytellings of black magic and Chandu the Magician,   
   Strange was created to bring a different kind of character and themes   
   of mysticism to Marvel Comics.   
      
   Doctor Strange was a brilliant but egotistical surgeon. After a car   
   accident destroys his hands and hinders his ability to perform   
   surgery, he searches the globe for a way to repair them and encounters   
   the Ancient One. After becoming one of the old Sorcerer Supreme's   
   students, he becomes a practitioner of both the mystical arts as well   
   as martial arts. Along with knowing many powerful spells, he has a   
   costume with two mystical objects - the Cloak of Levitation and Eye of   
   Agamotto that gives him added powers. Strange is aided along the way   
   by his friend and valet, Wong, and a large assortment of mystical   
   objects. He takes up residence in a mansion called the Sanctum   
   Sanctorum, located in New York City. Later, Strange takes the title of   
   Sorcerer Supreme.   
      
   In 2012, Doctor Strange was ranked 83rd in Wizard's "200 Greatest   
   Comic Book Characters of All Time" list,[citation needed] and 33rd in   
   IGN's list of "The Top 50 Avengers".[1] The character was first   
   portrayed in live action by Peter Hooten in the 1978 television movie   
   Dr. Strange. A Marvel Studios live-action film adaptation starring   
   Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role is set for a November 2016   
   theatrical release   
      
   ---- Beginnings   
      
   Doctor Strange debuted in Strange Tales #110 (July 1963),[4] a split   
   book shared with the feature "The Human Torch". Doctor Strange   
   appeared in issues #110-111 and #114 before the character's eight-page   
   origin story in #115 (Dec. 1963). Scripter Lee's take on the character   
   was inspired by the Chandu the Magician radio program that aired on   
   the Mutual Broadcasting System in the 1930s.[5] He had Doctor Strange   
   accompany spells with elaborate incantations; though these often   
   referenced established mythological figures, Lee has said he never had   
   any idea what the incantations meant and used them simply because they   
   sounded mystical and mysterious.[6] Ditko showcased surrealistic   
   mystical landscapes and increasingly vivid visuals that helped make   
   the feature a favorite of college students at the time. Comics   
   historian Mike Benton wrote,   
      
      
   The Dr. Strange stories of the 1960s constructed a cohesive cosmology   
   that would have thrilled any self-respecting theosophist. College   
   students, minds freshly opened by psychedelic experiences and Eastern   
   mysticism, read Ditko and Lee's Dr. Strange stories with the belief of   
   a recent Hare Krishna convert. Meaning was everywhere, and readers   
   analyzed the Dr. Strange stories for their relationship to Egyptian   
   myths, Sumerian gods, and Jungian archetypes.   
      
   "People who read Doctor Strange thought people at Marvel must be heads   
   [i.e., drug users]," recalled then-associate editor and former Doctor   
   Strange writer Roy Thomas in 1971, "because they had had similar   
   experiences high on mushrooms. But I don't use hallucinogens, nor do I   
   think any artists do."[8] Originating in the early 1960s, the   
   character was a predictor of counter-cultural trends in art prior to   
   them becoming more established in the later 1960s, according to comic   
   historian Bradford W. Wright: "Dr. Strange remarkably predicted the   
   youth counterculture's fascination with Eastern mysticism and   
   psychedelia."[9]   
      
   As co-plotter and later sole plotter in the Marvel Method, Ditko took   
   Strange into ever-more-abstract realms. In a 17-issue story arc in   
   Strange Tales #130-146 (March 1965-July 1966), Ditko introduced the   
   cosmic character Eternity, who personified the universe and was   
   depicted as a silhouette filled with the cosmos.[10] As historian   
   Bradford W. Wright described,   
      
      
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