#eye of agamotto

[wopfedra]

Not me thinking about how Green had always been the colour associated with Time in the Marvel Universe since the beginning :)

[canadianhottmess]

Can we talk about how judgmental the Eye of Agamotto looked this issue

[beczito]

DAY 7 - Doctor Strange

[jasposeyblog]

My acquisition of Doctor Strange sketch cover by @philjimeneznyc

[doctorstrangereview]

Strange Tales #127

Cover Date: December 1964 On-Sale Date: September 8, 1964

For such a significant story, Doc has little real estate on the cover this month. However, it's nice little postage stamp depicting the battle. Clea occupies the center of the splash page with the question "Who is the mystery girl in the diabolical dimension?" It doesn't get answered. We won't even know her name for another year and a half. Her origin will take another decade. On with the show!

We begin with a brief recap of last month's story. This is like the recap of a 60s Doctor Who episode where it was too difficult to edit in the end of the previous episode so they just acted it out all over again and it was a bit different. Dormie gives Doc some time to reconsider being blasted to atoms. Doc takes a stroll. Just as we find out that Doc's cloak can stand up all by its lonesome, Clea reappears to once again plead that Doc not face Dormie. She has a mysterious warning for Doc.

Clea conjures a floating portal to a mystery danger and, ignoring his stranger danger instincts, Doc follows her. Here we're introduced to a concept that will haunt the Marvel Universe on and off for decades to come! We meet The Mindless Ones! These creatures do nothing but fight 24/7. Of course we don't know if The Dark Dimension has a 24-hour day or a 7-day week so maybe they rest every so often. They're basically big, gray, rock-like creatures with Cyclops' eye-beam. And Clea plops them right in the middle of all this. We know this because Doc needs to rescue the two of them when they get too close.

Clea explains that these creatures are held behind a barrier erected by Dormie eons ago and is the only thing that keeps them from overrunning the rest of the dimension. Now, Clea's level of power and accomplishment hasn't been well defined until recently. Here she is able to conjure a portal that breaches this supposedly impenetrable barrier with relative ease. When things get to hot in Mindless Ones land, they scoot behind the barrier with no issues whatsoever. How are they able to get back and forth so easily?

Clea pleads that Doc must not defeat Dormie as she disappears into what looks like an icing sleeve. What the hell was Ditko thinking? This presents Doc with a moral quandary. Defeating Dormie may doom all the inhabitants of this dimension, but if he doesn't, Earth may be doomed. Seems it wasn't much of a quandary. In the next world balloon he decides "Earth it is!" Dormie summons him something that looks like The Rolling Stones logo on acid.

Entering Dormie's throne room, (maybe, everything here is constantly shifting so it's hard to tell) we see where Clea went. She is Dormie's prisoner. She's imprisoned in crystal and chains in one panel and only in chains in the next. This is some Suspiria level dream logic here! "WTF, Dormie?! She was trying to stop the fight!" yells Doc. "Tough!" he replies. "I'm gonna kill you while she watches and them I'm gonna kill her!"

The battle begins and Ditko draws some whacky stuff indeed!

The Ancient One is spying on them the whole time.

Dormie has the upper hand as he presses Doc who is realizing it's only a matter of time before he goes down. Clea thinks that she's doomed no matter what. Out comes Chekov's gun. Remember that important barrier we saw earlier? The one that was conjured by one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse? {That Clea seemed to pop around with impunity?) Yeah, that one. Well Dormie is throwing so much power at Doc it begins to weaken. Uh oh!

And suddenly they are literally inches away from Clea.

Ditko's sense of distance is questionable at time. Dormie turns away from the battle to erect an emergency barrier, but it's not enough. Doc must use the All-Purpose Amulet to bolster the Dread One. It works! It's followed by a literal fist-shaking moment.

Doc extracts two promises from Dormie. And always remember the order of these promises! First, he has to leave Clea alone. Second, he has to leave Earth alone. That's right! Earth came in second! Dormie agrees, begrudgingly. He follows this up with more fist shaking and what amounts to "I'll get you yet, my pretty!" We get a sense of why Doc put Clea first. He invites her to come back with him. Is love or lust in the air? Has Clea excited Doc's loins? That's a story for the future.

Doc reappears in The Ancient One's pad. He's not in his throne. "Where, o where could he have gone?" muses Doc. He's floating nearby. "WTF? How are you doing this, you frail old dude?" It turns out Dormie put a spell on the old dude that was broken when Doc 'beat' him. And, like a member of an Oprah audience, Doc wins a prize. Well, two prizes actually.

"Do me a favor and drag that big, heavy chest over here, would you?" "Can't you do it? You've got all these newly restored powers now." "Oh, all right." The chest opens and out float a pair of objects. Doc gets his now familiar cloak of levitation and All-Purpose Amulet upgrade. The cloak is yellow in it's first appearance. Fortunately it's yellow only in these couple of panels. It'll turn red next issue and then it's familiar red with gold trim in a few more months. The Ancient One congratulates Doc who leaves. While he was teleported there, the old dude, with his increased power is gonna make his favorite student walk the thousands of miles back home. The he thinks something about unbearable loneliness. Maybe shouldn't have made Doc walk!

An satisfying conclusion to last month's story, but I think it was just a little less exciting. Fortunately Ditko didn't make this a nine-page battle and made an interesting resolution to a dilemma that keeps both worlds intact and has far reaching implications for Doc's story and the entire Marvel Universe for years to come. Lee and Ditko probably didn't realize how entrenched Dormammu would become to the Marvel story, but I'm glad they created him. Dormie's story will get better and richer with each appearance.

[ghostedshe3p]

And here are the last 2 💪

I love how all of them have some kind of cloak on. Makes me feel like I need one to complete the INTJ look

Anyway, here are all of them together as a big happy family😍😍😍😍😍

I thought I was being creative with poses and realized that Tivan and Zemo are basically identical and I wanted to kms

Hhhhh whatever , hope y’all like em ;p

INFJs next, tell me if you have suggestions for who I should do next (MBTIs that is)

[mister-faltine]

Sketch of Doctor Strange's new costume in the comics:

Artist - Alex Ross.

Doctor Strange (2023) #1 will release on March 22, 2023.

[dwcmarshalarts]

Masdeer of the Mystic Arts. At least, one variant of him...

Art for a friend by DWC Marshal Arts

[a-victorian-girl]

Pandora has released a new Doctor Strange Eye of Agamotto bracelet charm as part of the new MARVEL X PANDORA collection ✨

Shared via X

You can get it here

[newblvotg]

[elanguagearts]

Drew a comic

[mckiwi]

Just got the Power Stone. Now I only have two more (reality and mind) to go

[askthesorcerersupreme]

I have the eye

That’s not the true Eye of Agamotto. For one, I’ve protected it for years so I would recognize it, and two… we no longer have the Time Stone. Try again.

@bishopaskblog

[jasposeyblog]

My commission of Phantom Stranger and Doctor Strange sketch cover by Erik Fidel

[nickmarino]

[smbhax]

From "The Search for Sub-Mariner!" in Fantastic Four #27, June 1964. Stan Lee script, Jack Kirby pencils, George Roussos inks, Sam Rosen letters. Original colorist unknown. Photoshop color reduction.