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Appearing in "That Was Then... This Is Now"

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Synopsis for "That Was Then... This Is Now"

Doctor Strange reacts with anger after reading an article in NOW magazine about Morgana Blessing's soon-to-be-published biography about him. After Topaz and Wong calm him down a bit, Strange flies off to talk to Morgana about the book. In his absence, Sara wonders if Stephen might be over-reacting so Wong suggests that she read the article herself.

Once she has read the entire article, Sara admits that Stephen wasn't over-reacting after all. When Wong expresses his concern that the publicity will cause Strange to be besieged by multitudes of the curious that will interfere with his mission as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, Imei feels that he is greatly exaggerating the problems that a mere book could cause. However, after looking out a window and seeing the crowd that has already gathered outside, Rintrah is less certain.

Appearing in "The Book of the Vishanti: The Curse of the Darkhold Part 1 "The Montesi Formula""

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Synopsis for "The Book of the Vishanti: The Curse of the Darkhold Part 1 "The Montesi Formula""

Doctor Strange reads a chapter from the Book of the Vishanti that reveals some of the people who have had the Darkhold in their possession in recent years.

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  • A photograph included in one of the book excerpts is from the funeral that was held for Strange following his supposed death. It is similar to the videotaped recording of a TV newscast of the funeral that Imei Chang was shown watching in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #1. However, since that funeral never actually happened and all evidence of it was part of a spell that Strange had cast to make the people of Earth believe that he had died, that photograph is nothing more than an illusion.
  • Fifteen of this comic's twenty-nine story pages are devoted to reprinting material that supposedly appeared in the November 1989 edition of Now Magazine. Twelve of those pages cover the article and include excerpts from Morgana Blessing's book, two more pages contain an interview with the author, and the last reprinted page is the Guest Editorial by J. Jonah Jameson that appeared in that edition.
  • After 24 years, the name of the third scientist from The Twelfth Hour was finally revealed but his name was spelt inconsistently, first as "Milsop" and then as "Milsap."
  • Some of the information presented in this issue's chapter of the Book of the Vishanti is inaccurate.
    • Laura Russell is said to have died "soon after" her first husband, Baron Gregor Russoff. In actuality, Laura died almost eighteen years after the baron did. Also, due to Marvel's sliding timescale, the circumstances of his death (i.e., being struck dead by Chthon) have since been transferred to one of his ancestors.
    • The Darkhold was never in Jack Russell's possession after he gave it to Father Jóquez to translate in Werewolf by Night #2, and Werewolf by Night #13 revealed that Jack believed that the book had later been destroyed by Aelfric. The book that Topaz later had in Transylvania, the one that was taken from her by Count Dracula, was actually Jack's father's diary, known as "The Second Book of Sins" because Baron Russoff had copied a number of spells from the Darkhold into it.
    • The narrative references Dracula's encounter with the mutant X-Men in England's Pendrammon Castle. However, the location where they (first) battled in X-Men Annual #6 was actually Pendarrow Castle in Cornwall.

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  • Father Ramón Jóquez's first name is misspelled as Damon.

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