Discover the best stories led by Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, a team that has delivered great feats in the Marvel Universe
What do you get when you combine Doctor Strange and Spider-Man? You get one of the most classic couples in the Marvel Universe! A partnership dating back nearly 60 years, these New York-based heroes are dedicated to keeping the peace in their city and beyond.
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Strange and Spidey are the perfect mix of magic and street level. And in their stories you can always count on them going to another dimension or facing an opponent from another dimension. Or both! In no particular order, here are some of their best team moments.
First meet
In their first team-up in Amazing Spider-Man Annual (1964) #2, the pair are tasked with stopping a powerful and evil sorcerer named Xandu from assembling a magical artifact, the Wand of Watoomb. Xandu is already one step ahead of them because he already has half the wand! A battle ensues.
Doctor Strange is temporarily knocked unconscious while Spider-Man, who has the other half of the wand, is transported to another dimension. Xandu manages to get the other half and fills himself with power, but not for long.
Combining their abilities, Strange and Spider-Man retrieve Watoomb’s wand from the selfish wizard, and Doctor Strange absorbs the wand’s power into the Eye of Agamotto. This won’t be the last time the duo go toe-to-toe with Xandu.
Second Round
Xandu is back and he wants revenge! This time, in Marvel Team-Up (1972) #21, he wants the Crystal of Kadavus, for reasons still unknown. Rather than hypnotize two random guys in a bar, Xandu gets Spider-Man to steal the skull-shaped gem from the Sanctum Sanctorum.
Spider-Man fights Doctor Strange, as Xandu’s hypnotic spell has changed his perception of his ally, and once again, Xandu gets what he wants. Xandu then uses the Crystal of Kadavus to recharge Watoomb’s Wand. Remember that little artifact? Well, he’s back too!
Xandu plans to use it to awaken his lost love, Melinda Morrison, from her coma and destroy her enemies. Spider-Man is no longer hypnotized and teams up with Doctor Strange to defeat Xandu once again. Doctor Strange, feeling sorry for Xandu, tries to revive Melinda, but everyone learns that she is in a “dream-like death”. Unfortunately, Xandu doesn’t believe him.
nightmare from another dimension
The demons have entered New York City. They’re looking for something… no, someone, Melinda? Yes, Melinda Morrison, Xandu’s ex-girlfriend. She is alive again and she is haunted by demons from the Death Dimension. Wow! Spider-Man fights them off to the best of his ability. Fortunately, Doctor Strange completely removes them with magic. With Melinda placed in a sleep sphere, the team appears to be clean…for a few minutes.
Demons storm the Sanctum Sanctorum, and Spider-Man is expelled from his body and is possessed by none other than Xandu. If Spider-Man doesn’t return to his body within 24 hours, Peter goes poof! A body swap, a fake Gwen Stacy, an Uncle Ben guilt trip, and multiple earthquakes in another dimension later, Xandu is defeated.
Deja vu. Spider-Man does what he should have done after the first time Watoomb’s Wand was used for evil: he breaks it. The team returns to Earth with Xandu and leaves Melinda, who becomes the Queen of the Death Dimension.
The Supreme Lycan
Spider-Man is on a date with Cissy Ironwood and suddenly a werewolf ruins the mood! After a fight at a lake, Spider-Man retrieves the Eye of Agamotto from the werewolf. Spider-Man is curious as to why the werewolf had the amulet, so he visits the Sanctum Sanctorum to find Clea, a sorceress with deep ties to Doctor Strange.
She doesn’t really help Spider-Man, so he goes in for a very accurate tarot reading to figure out his next steps. After a second trip to the Sanctorum, Clea, Wong, and Spider-Man discover that Doctor Strange is the werewolf.
Satana further explains in issue #81 that Doc was cursed after saving Clea from the Silver Dagger (that story can be read in Marvel Team-Up #76-#77), and only the daughter of the devil can save or finish him off. . Satana fights demons that want Strange’s soul, sacrificing herself in the process, and Doctor Strange is cured of his lycanthropy. A bittersweet ending.
a strange birthday
As part of the three-part “Happy Birthday” storyline, Spider-Man is caught between his past (before the radioactive spider bites him) and his future (being tracked by the police). Fortunately, Doctor Strange is there, psychically, to help bring him back to the present, using the Becoming Spell to steer Spider-Man in the right direction.
Spider-Man deals with a variety of moments in his life, from meeting the Sandman to facing off with the Green Goblin on the George Washington Bridge, and he’s absolutely exhausted. When Spider-Man doesn’t want to go through with it, Doctor Strange pushes him to go through with it.
Eventually, Spider-Man returns to the moment before taking a trip down memory lane: fighting the Mindless Ones in New York City with other heroes. Doctor Strange manages to stop the monsters and gives Spider-Man a super special gift: five more minutes with Uncle Ben. How nice!
With friends like these…
One night, Doctor Strange learns from the Ancient One that two normal humans have obtained a powerful artifact called the Lantern of Lantarr. An easy name to remember. While collecting “photos” of himself for J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man comes across the exact men who are using the flashlight to assault a woman. Not long after this meeting, Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange.
The good doctor gives Spider-Man “flashlight sense” since he came into contact with the flashlight. He finds the flashlight, but it is later used to trap many people, including Flash Thompson and Liz Allan, in another dimension. Is it really a Spider-Man and Doctor Strange team-up if there isn’t a trip to a strange alternate world?
It is also revealed that Baron Mordo wants to use the captured people as sacrifices to gain immense power from his patron, Enigma (who is actually Dormammu). Mordo fails and everyone is teleported back to New York.
This is one of the few times that Jameson admits that Spider-Man is a hero, but no one will remember what happened because Spider-Man asks Doctor Strange to erase his memories. And it won’t be the last time Spider-Man makes such a request.
The new Sorcerer Supreme
Due to the use of forbidden magic in a previous battle, Doctor Strange has lost the title of “Sorcerer Supreme”. He has to search for the new Sorcerer Supreme and hopes he hasn’t gone to the Hood or especially Doctor Doom.
Spider-Man suggests that they, he and the New Avengers, help Strange. Because what are friends for? The Eye of Agamotto takes them to New Orleans, where the artifact and the title of Sorcerer Supreme are transferred to Brother Voodoo.
Doctor Strange makes quick work of Dormammu, who has possessed the Hood, and Brother Voodoo (now Doctor Voodoo) exorcises the demon. Just think, if Spider-Man hadn’t offered to help Doctor Strange, who knows how this moment would have turned out?
Correcting the past?
Spider-Man wants to regain his anonymity. His family is constantly in the Kingpin’s sights due to who they are associated with. This looks very familiar. In the third part of “One Moment in Time”, instead of being visited by a certain malevolent demon, Spider-Man goes to Doctor Strange to ask him if he can make everyone forget his true identity.
Strange can do it, but first he has to talk to Tony Stark and Mister Fantastic. Stark is hesitant about the idea and mentions the Sentry as an example, but eventually agrees; Reed Richards does too.
Blending arcane and science, Strange casts the spell while Spider-Man and an unconscious Mary Jane Watson are in a protective cell, allowing them to remember everything. For better or worse.
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The Sorcerer Supreme is present in the Marvel Verse
Life and magic gave him a second chance… and he became the Sorcerer Supreme!
The master of the mystical arts revealed his origin in Strange Tales #115 in 1963. After his previous appearances shocked the minds of thousands of readers.
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