Marvel's Original DOCTOR STRANGE is a Silly Villain You've Never Heard Of! || NerdSync

Before Stephen Strange was Marvel's Doctor Strange, Dr. Strange was Doctor Strange. Is that confusing? A Silver Age Iron Man villain held the title of Dr. Strange before our favorite Sorcerer Supreme, and he is one whacky character. Today, we're going over the one issue origin and history of Marvel's original Dr. Strange, along with some rapid-fire Doctor Strange trivia!

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Strange Tales #110:
Stan Lee’s letter to Jerry Bails:
Tales of Suspense #41:
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Lee interview about Strange’s creation (pg 7):
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[Malicious_Hero]

Dr. Strange VS Doctor Strange VS Dr. Hugo Strange.

Kinda strange that all three were able to get doctorates.

[marcelltoing]

It would be funny if they re-introduced him for comic relief as some washed-up super villain pissed at Doctor Strange for taking his name

[Its_PaPez]

"Barbecue Chickenbreast" may be my new favourite way of saying Bramblestick Campbellsoup

[JaelinBezel]

Duracell should use that in their advertising. Batteries so strong, even the Invincible Iron Man uses them for a quick recharge!

[DKlarations]

Yeah, I screwed up and called it a golden age comic, it was definitely SILVER age.
Oopsy poopsy...

[afonsolucas]

I've always talked about this Doctor Strange! Finally someone talked about it and made people aware! THANKS NERDSYNC!

[AmaranthOriginal]

Obviously, Dr. Strange knew to tune his ULTRA FREQUENCIES to the resonant frequency of Iron Man's suit, which he knew because...uh....science.

[ThethSnake]

But Human Torch still exists alongside Human Torch, right?

[raggarharry]

Please make a five hour version of this video, it would be hillarious.

[PhantomObserver]

Oddly enough, I remember a Fred Hembeck comic (HEMBECK 6) where the villainous Doctor Strange tries to argue for a comeback, only Fred tells him that because his story was written by "R. Berns", he's not official continuity.

[theapplecommunity]

I love these videos about names. I don't know why, but really interesting. Keep up the amazing work Scott, Dk, Auram and many more I couldn't remember! You're all so amazing!

[TheAnig]

I like how the wall full of comic stuff has Tracer from Overwatch and a random picture of Hearthstone's intro screen.

[damiencrowley]

I also think that Bean Dip Cucumber was great as Dr. Strange.

[EricSpan]

Agamotto basically means "damn it" in Greek. But intead of "damn" we use "fuck".

[Kcomix]

finally! i've been waiting for his video for a full year (that's when i first read the iron man comic)

[michaelhughes]

Another great video, Scott. I never heard your story about it was Ditko whom pitched the idea of Doctor Stephen Strange, to Lee. In his book, Origins of Marvel Comics, Stan wrote he got the idea from an old radio program called, Chandu the Magician, whom used magic to fight crime. You read one thing than you hear something else. Go figure. Also, I remember reading a out the original villainous Dr. Strange in Marvel Collectors Items Classics, and Iron Man's Marvel Masterworks, which both reprinted TAS # 41. And a few years later, Lee mentioned in the letters page, that he remembered using the name, Dr. Strange for a Super Villain. He also stated that the name somehow stuck inside his mind, when Steve Ditko and he used it for Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts. Also, Hawkeye the Archer always reminded me of Green Arrow. I was speaking to some guys in a Comicbook Store, who agreed with me that Thanos, no harm to him, but often reminded me of Darkseid. When they both met in the Miniseries, DC Vs. Marvel, Darkseid called Thanos, "You caricature of me

[OwenLikesComics]

Where's DK? Wait... there is he, as you were!

(Great video as always, I thoroughly enjoy this show!)

[alien]

Good video:) definitely want more of these

Awesome as always. I'd watch that 5 hour video.

[noahspeeter]

I think DC also has a few characters that share the same name, but are not connected in any way. One example that comes to mind is Artemis. Artemis is the name of an Amazonian who is currently being featured in Red Hood and The Outlaws. And then there is the Artemis who is featured in Young Justice (and also Arrow is a way). However, this Artemis would go by the name of Tigress in the comics, so I'm not really sure if this counts as a true example.