View Poll Results: Which writer's run is the best for you?

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  • Stan Lee & Steve Ditko

    5 26.32%
  • Roger Stern

    9 47.37%
  • Steve Englehart

    3 15.79%
  • Other

    2 10.53%
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    Default Which is the Best Doctor Strange Run?

    After the movie trailer, I got excited and started to search for good Doctor Strange stuff to read. I've read Lee & Ditko era before and heard good things about Englehart and Stern runs. So I wonder which one is the most appreciated in CBR Community.
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    Hmmm... Lee & Ditko is the best by far, IMO.
    However, I'm real partial to the Stern and Gillis runs as my 2nd and 3rd picks.

    As for my vote, I voted for Stern because it was the best run for me, personally, if that makes sense.
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    Ditko and Lee were great. Roy (and Dann) Thomas' run is mostly great stuff with a few flailing moments. David Quinn was awesome. The Waid/Rios mini was fun as hell. Peter B Gillis was smart, and I wish there'd been more to the run. Gene Colan ruled on Dr Strange.

    Len Kaminski and Geof Isherwood went at it like they were actively trying to get fired, which ends up making for beautiful, mad, teetering on the brink comics.
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    JM DeMatteis' brief run is criminally overlooked.
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    Stern was the best Doctor Strange run by far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SJNeal View Post
    JM DeMatteis' brief run is criminally overlooked.
    It sure is! Love them!

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    Very difficult to choose, but I give it to Stern.
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    All were great IMHO.
    So thankful to Lee & Ditko for their work, but I have to give it to the person that
    had me buying the Doctor Strange title in my youth....Roger Stern. Paul Smith
    was my favorite artist paired with Stern. That was a great time to be a Doctor
    Strange fan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Herowatcher View Post
    All were great IMHO.
    So thankful to Lee & Ditko for their work, but I have to give it to the person that
    had me buying the Doctor Strange title in my youth....Roger Stern.
    I think I might be the same. In my junior years I used to swap comics with friends but I always kept the Stern ones. Funny thing was I didn't know I was doing it. I just kept the ones I liked! I hardly ever read the writers credits back then, it was only when I recollected them years later that I realized what I'd done.

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    I put the Stern run over even the Lee Ditko stuff.

    The only run that comes close is the Englehart stuff (which wins out over Stern on being actively weird, but isn't as entertaining.

    I don't even REMEMBER the Kaminski run of Doc Strange.

    When was it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic Vega View Post
    I put the Stern run over even the Lee Ditko stuff.

    The only run that comes close is the Englehart stuff (which wins out over Stern on being actively weird, but isn't as entertaining.

    I don't even REMEMBER the Kaminski run of Doc Strange.

    When was it?
    I loved most of the Englehart run but there was a story or two that bugged me. The only one of these I remember now is the Sise-Neg one in Marvel Premiere. At the time I found it a bad tasting clash with my christian beliefs (I won't spoil the story) I think Englehart was told off about it inside Marvel and that, "...Marvel doesn't do God."

    Kaminski run was in the early 90's.

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    Quote Originally Posted by t hedge coke View Post
    Ditko and Lee were great. Roy (and Dann) Thomas' run is mostly great stuff with a few flailing moments. David Quinn was awesome. The Waid/Rios mini was fun as hell. Peter B Gillis was smart, and I wish there'd been more to the run. Gene Colan ruled on Dr Strange.

    Len Kaminski and Geof Isherwood went at it like they were actively trying to get fired, which ends up making for beautiful, mad, teetering on the brink comics.
    Wow, that is a great summation of the Kaminski/Isherwood run. I think I'll go pull out those old books and give them another read. Thanks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic Vega View Post
    I don't even REMEMBER the Kaminski run of Doc Strange.

    When was it?
    If I remember correctly, it wasn't a run so much as a series of fill-ins before David Quinn's takeover with Sorcerer Supreme #60. I think Geof Isherwood was his co-writer/plotter...?

    They weren't the greatest issues, but Isherwood's art was always solid.
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    Movie prep time Could anybody point me in the direction of trades/HCs for the Lee&Ditko, Roy Thomas runs? Doc Strange newbie here (have one issue from Brian K Vaughan's Strange, liked it)

    -Doctor Strange Omnibus?
    -Marvel Masterworks Doctor Strange?
    -Steve Ditko Archives?

    Doc Strange newbie here (have one issue from Brian K Vaughan's Strange, liked it)
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