Doctor Strange Vol 1 173

Doctor Strange #173
Previous Issue	Doctor Strange #172
Next Issue	Doctor Strange #174
Art by: Gene Colan
Release Date	July 2, 1968
Cover Date	October, 1968
Issue Details
Editor-in-Chief	Stan Lee

1. "... While a World Awaits!"
Appearances · Synopsis
Writer(s)	Roy Thomas
Penciler(s)	Gene Colan
Inker(s)	Tom Palmer
Letterer(s)	Artie Simek
Editor(s)	Stan Lee

 Now come my murdrous minions -- follow in the paths of the Dread One! 

—Dormammu

Appearing in "... While a World Awaits!"

Featured Characters:

• ⏴ Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) ⏵

Supporting Characters:

• ⏴ Clea ⏵
• ⏴ Victoria Bentley ⏵

Antagonists:

• ⏴ Dormammu ⏵
• ⏴ Umar ⏵
• Dykkors

Other Characters:

• ⏴ Wong ⏵
• ⏴ Dr. Charles Benton ⏵ (First full appearance)
• Faltine (Invoked)
• Lords of the Tempest… of cosmic thunder (Invoked)
• Valtorr (Invoked)
• Denak (Invoked)
• Satannish (Invoked)
• Watoomb (Invoked)
• Munnopor (Invoked)

Locations:

• Stephen Strange's Mansion
• Dormammu's Dimension

Items:

• Cloak of Levitation
• Eye of Agamotto
• Flames of Regency
• Orb of Agamotto
• Spells
  • Maelstrom of Madness
  • Flames of the Faltine
  • Vapors of Valtorr (Invoked)
  • Demons of Denak (Invoked)
  • Winds of Watoomb
  • Moons of Munnopor (Invoked)

Synopsis for "... While a World Awaits!"

As Doctor Strange defends the Doorway of Dimensions from Dormammu, Umar and their army seeking to gain access to Earth's dimension, Clea and Victoria Bentley safely arrive in Doctor Strange's Sanctum. There Wong answers the door to an old colleague of Doctor Strange, Doctor Charles Benton, who has come to talk Doctor Strange out of a life of a mystic (which Benton believes is nothing more than chicanery) and work for him as a medical consultant. While this is happening, at the Doorway of Dimensions, Strange is bound in mystical chains while Dormammu seeks to break a portal to Earth.

Clea and Victoria use the Orb of Agamotto to reverse a spell cast upon Umar that limits her powers. Umar, wanting revenge against her brother allows Doctor Strange to become free and go after Dormammu through the portal. There the two fight and ultimatly Dormammu is drawn back from whence he came. Arriving home Benton asks Strange to come back to work for the hospital as a consultant. Strange asks to be left alone as he is really tired, causing Benton to lose his temper and storm out, ironically admonishing Strange that he will "never be of use to anyone!"

Notes

• This issue contains a letters page, Strange Mails. Letters are published from Elaine M. Sciog, Dennis Allen, Henry Kinsey III, Mike Hudak, Achille Di Bacco, and "The Gifted One".

• Page Vol 1 32 contains a full page cover reproduction ad for Avengers Annual #2.

See Also

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