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Doctor Strange's Movie Origin – Tuesday Trending Topics

Published Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:29:49 -0500

From the sounds of it, and presuming this is mostly true, many of the elements of Doc's origin that they're using for the film are from Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #45 (1992) by Roy Thomas and Geof Isherwood. Of course, the core origin is in Strange Tales #115 (1963) by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, initially expanded in 1968 for Doctor Strange #169 by Lee and Dan Adkins.

Most-Read Comic Stories Tuesday:

Kyle Baker's Mass Murderer Of Steel

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The Very Quotable Before Watchmen (UPDATE)

Barbara Kesel, one of the original editors of Watchmen once committed a personal act of sabotage against DC Comics over planned Watchmen prequels when they were first proposed in the nineties. She secretly leaked the news to Alan Moore, who phoned up then-DC Comics President Jenette Kahn and put a kibosh on it. Possibly by shouting "Kaaaaaaaaaahn!" down the line.

Grace Randolph's Stacktastic: What To Do When You've Been Age Of Ultronned

Age of Ultron is over, and it's time for my review. Plus thoughts on the changes Age of Ultron brings to the Marvel 616.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Tuesday:

Rumour: The Beginnings Of Marvel's Doctor Strange Movie Plot

Here's their video description of some early scenes from the film's screenplay. This seems to come from a draft by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer, and obviously, even if it's 100% accurate today, it simply won't be by the time it reaches the screen. Movie making doesn't work like that, much less at Marvel Studios.

Another Marvel Movie Takes July 8th 2016 Release Date

Marvel's second release for 2016 has been given a release date, and it's set for July 8th 2016. What will it be? Your guess will likely be as good as mine. I don't have… um… inhuman powers of precognition.

"Significant" X-Men Role Goes To Josh Helman

With no tweet from Bryan Singer to offer any extra clues, it's hard to tell who up-and-comer Josh Helman might be playing in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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