Primary Comic Book Series

Doctor Strange has had several self titled series.  It all started when he took over Strange Tales in  June of 1968.  They retitled the book Doctor Strange  but continued the Strange Tales numbering scheme by numbering the book #169.  This continued until   Doctor Strange #183 in  November of 1969.  Doctor Strange would return with his own title again in  June of 1974.  This series lasted  until issue #81 in February of 1987.  In November of 1988, Doctor Strange would return in Doctor Strange Sorcerer supreme, which lasted until issue #90 in June of 1996.  The good Doctor would return in October of 2015 in a series that would last until 2018.  

In 2017, Marvel changed they way they numbered many of their comics.  In mid series, they changed the number on the comics to a Legacy Number.  This number was determined by how many comics that character had in their own titles up to this date.  Doctor Strange went from issue #26 in December (released October) of 2017 to #381 in January (released November) of 2018.  This confused a lot of people, especially when they abandoned that numbering system in 2018 by returning to a Doctor Strange #1 in  August (released  June) of 2018.  The only reason they did this was because a new writing team was taking over not because the original series came to an end.  This again confused a lot of people.  This is the current series.

This page catalogs the primary Doctor Strange  series comics that are in the collection.  The pictures are of the actual comics in the collection.   The Details link will take you to a wiki page not associated with the Archive with more information on the book.   One-shots, mini-series, and important Doctor Strange runs in other titles are cataloged on other pages.  Refer to the menu above.  With the crazy things Marvel does to their numbering schemes, I refer to the series by the year they started not by a volume number.   I also disagree with how other websites determine what volumes are which so its easier to just use dates.  The dates I use for each comic is the date on the indicia page of the comic which can be different than the date it was actually released.