Mordo said you've got a brain now -- you're Ted Sallis. If that's true, for pity's sake, listen to me! Don't you see? Mordo lied to you! He's using you! 
Appearing in "Weep for the Soul of Man..."
Featured Characters:
- ⏴ Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- ⏴ Man-Thing (Ted Sallis) ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- ⏴ Madeleine St. Germaine ⏵ (Main story and recap) (Death and resurrection)
- ⏴ Jennifer Kale ⏵ (Death and resurrection)
Antagonists:
- Death (Impersonates Clea)
- ⏴ Baron Mordo ⏵ (Main story and recap)
- Chaos Demon
Other Characters:
- Clea (Only in recap) (Also impersonated by Death in main story)
- Cardinal Alfeo Spinosa (Only in recap)
- Azrael (Only in recap)
- ⏴ Joshua Kale ⏵ (Death and resurrection)
- ⏴ Andy Kale ⏵ (Death and resurrection)
- Jaxon (Main story and recap) (Death and resurrection)
- Seven other sacrifices (5 women and 2 men) (Unnamed) (Death and resurrection)
- Dread Lords of the Mabdhara (Invoked)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- Florida
- Everglades
- Okealachobee River (First appearance)
- Man-Thing's Swamp
- Citrusville
- Everglades
- New York (Only in recap)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (Only in recap)
- Florida
- France (Only in recap)
- Paris (Only in recap)
- United States of America
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Synopsis for "Weep for the Soul of Man..."
Story continued from Man-Thing (Vol. 2) #4....
Doctor Strange finds himself in an astral limbo where he is visited by Death who, while disguised as Clea, attempts to lead him deeper into her realm. However, Strange manages to see through the ruse and escapes her. As a result, he returns to the land of the living and to his body which has survived lying face-down in the shallows of the Okealachobee River for hours because he had entered a deep Zen trance in order to convince Mordo that he was dead so that the Man-Thing would stop trying to drown him.
Elsewhere in the swamp, Baron Mordo is in the demonic temple he has created and is preparing for the sacrifice of the 13 individuals needed to open the Chaos Gates, with Jennifer Kale and the Man-Thing being the two powerful sorcerers who are required . Mordo informs Jennifer that Man-Thing is cooperating because he had used his magic to restore Man-Thing's intellect, giving the mind of Ted Sallis control of the monster's body, and had promised to restore Sallis to human form if he helped Mordo. However, Mordo admits to Jennifer that Sallis will actually die with his world.
Dr. Strange arrives just as Mordo initiates the spell and uses an illusion of himself to distract Mordo long enough to get behind him and punch him in the face. Unfortunately, this attack triggers Mordo's protection spell which transports both sorcerers away from the temple and into the heart of the Nexus of All Realities where they begin to fight.
Back on Earth, the great crystal door that is the first Chaos Gate opens and a demonic hand reaches forth and begins taking the sacrifices. One by one, the hand covers each victim and quickly absorbs their life-energies, reducing them to skeletons in the process. In the other dimension, Strange and Mordo can see and hear what's happening on Earth but Strange cannot try to help the sacrifices without being slain by Mordo. Eventually, the death of the eleventh sacrifice, Madeleine, a woman Strange had once loved, enrages Strange enough that he is able to withstand Mordo's spells and get his hands around Mordo's neck. Mordo pleads for mercy but Strange refuses to listen.
In the temple, as the demon is about to kill her, Jennifer appeals to Ted Sallis, telling him that Mordo intends to betray him. Then she is killed and the Man-Thing is left looking at her bones in his arms.
In the Nexus, Strange choses not to murder Mordo and turns away, giving Mordo the chance to grab a rock and strike Strange down from behind.
Back in the temple, Ted Sallis begins fighting back, using the Man-Thing's body to force the demon's hand back into the gate. Although the demon attempts to absorb his life, the Man-Thing's freakish constitution enables him to resist long enough to push the hand back through the almost fully-opened gate and then slam the crystal doors shut. This causes the gate to shatter, creating a tear between dimensions that pulls the now-screaming demon away and tries to suck the Man-Thing into it as well. In the Nexus, the shock wave from the disruption of the spell causes Strange and Mordo to be swept away just before Strange was about to be killed by Mordo. While Mordo was unable to return to Earth, Strange manages to make his way back to the temple on Earth where Sallis, preferring death to being trapped in a monster's body for all time, had stopped resisting the pull of the vortex. However, Strange arrives in time to save Sallis and cast a spell that seals the vortex.
Within the temple, Strange and Sallis discover that all twelve of the people who had been killed by the Chaos Demon are alive again because the demon had been forced to return the lives it had stolen when Mordo's spell had been broken before it was completed. Unfortunately, when Strange tries to use his magical powers to change Sallis back into his human form, he discovers that the Man-Thing's unique nature (being spawned both of science and magic) makes it impossible for him to be cured by anything that is not also a combination of sorcery and science. Understanding that Strange cannot cure him, Sallis goes berserk and lashes out, so Strange does the only thing he can do to end his suffering by casting a spell to return Sallis' intellect to the mystic limbo where it had resided for years. Returned to his mindless state, the Man-Thing then wanders back into the swamp.