The Beginnings

[Gene Steinberg]

Here's the Wikipedia entry on Dr. Strange:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange

There was also a TV movie, adequate more or less, based on the character, but all that dates back to the 1980s or 1990s. Meantime, with comic characters gaining new credibility as a result of The Dark Knight, even the venerable Dr. Strange could return.

[dusty]

Hi Gene thanks for the wiki tip,

I think my interest in the paranormal was in part fuelled by the Doc, at least at an early age.
As it's raining here and I have a day off, I think I will dig out all my old comics and take a trip down memory lane.

By the way another writer I enjoy is, "Rudy Rucker". If you haven't read anything by him I would recommend "White Light".
Very entertaining stuff, you might like to check him out at:

http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/index.html

Peace,

Mark

[Gene Steinberg]

Hi Gene thanks for the wiki tip,

I think my interest in the paranormal was in part fuelled by the Doc, at least at an early age.
As it's raining here and I have a day off, I think I will dig out all my old comics and take a trip down memory lane.

By the way another writer I enjoy is, "Rudy Rucker". If you haven't read anything by him I would recommend "White Light".
Very entertaining stuff, you might like to check him out at:

http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/index.html

Peace,

Mark

So he has a science fiction book about the hollow Earth. Fascinating.

[Gary Seven]

Anybody else influenced by Manly Wade Wellman's work?

[Gene Steinberg]

Anybody else influenced by Manly Wade Wellman's work?

Sorry no. Tell me more.

[Gary Seven]

I guess the first things I got my grubby little hands on were comics.
Not the ones produced here in the UK like Dandy and Beano. I was always drawn to
the American ones from Marvel and DC.

I think it was the glossy covers and fantastic cover art that grabbed me.

My absolute and all time favourite hero was "Dr Strange".
He wasn't the usual muscle man type, though he was on occasion depicted as pretty ripped.
His platform of combat was often set in other dimensions, and he used a mixture of
ancient spells and artifacts to do his thing.

Not sure if Marvel still produce any comics with the dear old Doc but I would strongly recommend you check him out if ever you get the chance.
I still have about a hundred Dr Strange comics up in the loft and I could never part with them.

My introduction to true sci-fi was with Arthur C Clarkes books,

Rendezvous with Rama
Childhoods end
2001

And lots of others. Shame Arthurs no longer with us, a true insightful man.
I too liked Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham) and I also read some Micheal Moorcroft
books, something about "Jerek Carnelian" or "Jerry cornelius" rings a bell but it was a long time ago. In fact I think there was a movie made with that character years ago.
Perhaps someone here could shed some light on that.

Peace,

Mark

The Sorcerer Supreme AKA Dr. Stephen Strange Was a Steve Ditko co-creation. The artwork was trippy as hell. My dream team for the movie would be Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. I bet Johnny could even do those signature, impossible, hand gestures Strange used to cast spells. And well, Ditko's art and Burton's eye., perfect.

[Gene Steinberg]

That would be some fascinating movie.

[Gary Seven]

Sorry no. Tell me more.

http://www.manlywadewellman.com/ The stories I remember had to do with mountain folk and their encounters with magic and the paranormal.

[Gene Steinberg]

http://www.manlywadewellman.com/ The stories I remember had to do with mountain folk and their encounters with magic and the paranormal.

Thanks. I really need a 36 hour day to catch up on all the reading.

[Gary Seven]

Thanks. I really need a 36 hour day to catch up on all the reading.

"Writers should be readers". That's what a former english professor told me once. Hemingway had something different to say on the subject., something about life experience as a key to good writing.