23: Dr. Strange – Show Notes

DSRA

January 22, 2017

First Segment

First Appearance in Strange Tales #110 – 1963
Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
Inspired by Chandu the Magician
- 1930s radio show
Origin Story – Brilliant Neurosurgeon to Master Sorcerer
Became an Emblem of the Counterculture in the 1960s
- Surrealism and Cubism
Strange Tales by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan
The Defenders by Ross Andru and Roy Thomas
- With Sub Mariner, The Hulk and Silver Surfer
Anthology Series by Steven Englehart and Frank Brunner
- Controversy over the use of ‘God’
Later work
- Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment
- The Oath by Brian K. Vaughan
- 2015 solo title by Jason Aaron
Strange’s Powers

Second Segment

Dr. Strange’s first TV Appearance
- 1978
- Jessica Walters
- Peter Hooten
- Philip DeGuere
Strange Attempts
- 1986
- 1989 With Stan Lee
- Dr. Mordrid 1992
- Wes Craven
Scott Derrickson
- Horror Director
  - Sinister
  - Exorcism of Emily Rose
- 90 minute pitch
  - Astral projection fight scene
- Steve Ditko’s influence
  - Psychedelic immersion
- Inception
Jon Spaihts
- Hard lobbying for Dr. Strange
- Hollywood Black List
- Passengers
- Prometheus
- The Mummy
- Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Facts and Figures
- $165,000,000 budget
- $87,700,000 gross
- 90% Critics score on Rotten Tomatoes
- 91% viewer score on Rotten Tomatoes

Third Segment