Appearing in "Love Is the Spell, The Spell Is Death!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Mr. Weeks (First appearance) (Passenger on ocean liner)
- Unnamed ocean liner's crew (First appearance)
- Purser (First appearance)
- Captain (Mentioned)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Odin (Mentioned)
- Zeus (Mentioned)
- Unnameable (Invoked)
- Morlocks (Mentioned)
Note: all of the characters listed here make cameo appearances at Stephen Strange's funeral service, which was an illusion that never happened.
- X-Men (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Rogue (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- West Coast Avengers (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Vision (Victor Shade) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Avengers (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Black Knight (Dane Whitman) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Thor (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Victoria Bentley (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Invisible Woman (Sue Richards) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Dagger (Tandy Bowen) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hulk (Bruce Banner) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Monks of Kamar-Taj (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Arnie Green (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Nick Fury (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Vindicator (Heather MacNeil Hudson) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Illusion or holographic simulation)
Note: all of the characters listed here appear in the recap.
- Shuma-Gorath (Only in recap)
- Khats (Only in recap)
- Erlik Khan (Only in recap)
- Water Elemental (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Old Ones (Main story and recap)
- Demons (Main story and recap)
- Aliens (Main story and recap)
- Asgardians (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Zenn-Lavians (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Mutants (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Khats (Only in recap)
- Ancients (Only in recap)
Locations:
- Earth
- Pacific Ocean
- United States of America
- New York City, New York
- Manhattan
- The Alley
- Greenwich Village
- Crestview Cemetery (Illusion or holographic simulation) (First appearance)
- Manhattan
- New York City, New York
- Dark Dimension (Cameo) (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation
- Amulet of Agamotto
- Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
- Eye of Agamotto
- Power Cosmic (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Captain America's Shield (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Captain America's Uniform (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Iron Man Armor MK VII (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Mjolnir (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Power Cosmic (Illusion or holographic simulation)
Vehicles:
- Avengers Quinjet (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Fantasticar (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Silver Surfer's Surfboard (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Unnamed ocean liner (First appearance)
Synopsis for "Love Is the Spell, The Spell Is Death!"
As Imei Chang watches a videotape of a network newscast of the funeral for Dr. Strange that never took place, the real Strange finalizes a battle at sea and forces one more Old One back into its ancient hiding place. After returning home for rest, Doc is awakened when he senses that an innocent is being attacked nearby. However, since his physical body is just too tired, Doc releases his astral form to handle the threat. Unfortunately, that threat was actually a trap meant to trick him into leaving his body so that Dormammu could take it over. When Dormammu attempts to capture Doc's astral body, he manages to escape but only by hiding within the body of a rat in the deserted Morlock Tunnel. If Doc's astral form remains out of his body for a day and a night, he will never be able to return to it.
Notes
- At this point in time, the general populace of Earth believes that Doctor Strange was killed in combat with the Beyonder in Secret Wars II #9. The funeral was not real, but a spell that Doctor Strange conjured to hide himself from the world.
- Doctor Strange finds the Morlock tunnels abandoned. This is due primarily to the actions of the Marauders who slaughtered dozens of Morlocks in an event known as the Mutant Massacre.
- Dormammu was previously believed to have been destroyed in Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #51.
- It is hypothesized that the Old One and the sunken city are Cthulhu and R'lyeh,[1] but the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe rejects the assertion regarding the entity, and believe it more likely to be the Thing from R'lyeh, also created by Peter Gillis.[2]
See Also
- 2 image(s) from Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Vol 1 1
- 2 reprint(s) of Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Vol 1 1
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Doctor Strange article at Wikipedia
- Doctor Strange profile at the Marvel Directory
- Doctor Strange profile at the Marvel Universe
- Doctor Strange - Master of the Mystic Arts
- Doctor Strange - Sorcerer Supreme
- Doctor Strange: Sanctum Sanctorum