Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Zelma Stanton
- Clea (Only in flashback)
- Wong (Only in flashback)
Antagonists:
- "Haunted Girl" (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers (Main story and flashback)
- Vishanti (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Valtorr (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Shuma-Gorath (Only in recap)
- Dormammu (Only in recap)
- Eternity (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Demons (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Faltine Hybrids (Only in flashback)
- Gods (Invoked) (Only in flashback)
- Werewolves (Illusion or holographic simulation) (Only in flashback)
- Succubi (Illusion or holographic simulation) (Only in flashback)
- Zombies (Illusion or holographic simulation) (Only in flashback)
- Vampires (Illusion or holographic simulation) (Only in flashback)
- Old Ones (Only in recap)
- Faltine (Only in recap)
- Abstract Entities (Only in recap)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Main story and flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Main story and flashback)
- Sanctum Sanctorum (Main story and flashback)
- Bleecker Street (Main story and flashback)
- Avengers Tower, Columbus Circle, Midtown (Mentioned) (Only in flashback)
- Greenwich Village (Main story and flashback)
- Manhattan (Main story and flashback)
- New York City (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Astral Plane (Only in flashback)
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
- Doctor Strange's Cloak
- Axe of Angarruumus
- Eye of Agamotto (Only in flashback)
- Cloak of Levitation (Only in flashback)
- Vipers of Valtorr (Invoked)
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Bolts of Bedevilment (Only in flashback)
- Spell of Forgetting (Only in flashback)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
EXTRA-SIZED 25TH ISSUE!
• Comic art legend KEVIN NOWLAN joins John Barber (DOCTOR STRANGE/PUNISHER) for an incredibly special anniversary issue!
• A mysterious foe that Strange BARELY defeated in his past comes back to haunt Strange’s present and finds him MUCH weaker. Uh-oh!