Strange Tales #114 Nov 1963
"The Return of the Omnipotent Baron Mordo!"
Karl Mordo calls on Doctor Strange to ask for help, disguised as Strange's old friend Sir Clive Bentley.
Strange travels to Bentley's castle in England.
Inside the castle, Strange is trapped by the paralyzing vapors of Mordo's magical candles.
The Ancient One contacts Doctor Strange, but Strange wishes to overcome Mordo alone.
He issues a mental command to a nearby girl to come to the castle and extinguish the candles.
The girl is actually Victoria Bentley, daughter of Lord Bentley who has been dead for ten years.
Mordo returns, attacking Strange with his mental powers and orders Strange to kill Victoria, who possesses a latent mystical talent.
Just then Strange arrives in his mortal form. it was only his projected image that had been in the castle until then.
Strange and Mordo do battle in a mystical dimension until Mordo gives up and disappears.
First appearance of Victoria Bentley.
Script by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (co-plot),
pencils by
Steve Ditko https://13thdimension.com/13-covers-...celebration-3/,
inks by George Roussos