Strange is a six-part American comic book limited series published by Marvel Comics under their Marvel Knights imprint. Written by J. Michael Straczynski and Samm Barnes, with artwork by Brandon Peterson, Strange is a re-imagining of Doctor Strange's origin.

Strange: Beginnings & Endings
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Knights (Marvel Comics)
ScheduleMonthly
Formatmini-series
Publication dateNovember 2004 - April 2005
No. of issuesSix
Main character(s)Doctor Strange
Wong Strange
Ancient One
Clea
Baron Mordo
Dormammu
Creative team
Written byJ. Michael Straczynski
Samm Barnes
Artist(s)Brandon Peterson
Colorist(s)Justin Ponsor

Synopsis

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While in Tibet, a medical student named Stephen Strange meets a sickly, apparently mute young man named Wong. He later meets an old man while going to a monastery called "the Garden of Fountains", who asks him why he wants to become a doctor. Later, he hears the young man named Wong start talking after Stephen gives him a watch, hoping he will return later in life. Three years later, at his graduation party, one of Stephen's college professors who believes he would be more than a "medical profession's version of a pimp" is killed in an automobile incident. Three years after that, Stephen is working in plastic surgery in New York but is injured in a skiing accident.[1]

Stephen loses the full ability to use his hands after the accident and starts looking for a surgeon who can fix his hands, but finds no one who can help. [2] Strange meets a member of doctors without borders who he had worked with in Tibet, who explains that Wong is now a specialist "healer" in alternative medicine. Strange returns to Tibet to discover that the village he had volunteered in had been destroyed and Wong had left. While in Tibet, Strange meets a man who knew Wong and receives Wongs address in New York. Strange returns to New York to meet with Wong.

References

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  1. ^ Strange (vol. 1) #1 (Nov. 2004)
  2. ^ Strange (vol. 1) #2 (Dec. 2004)
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