Monday, June 2, 2025

Man-Bat and Doctor Strange in "No Escape From Castle Mordo!"

 


This is another example of a cover that required the removal and patching of portions before any new images could be added to it.  Here is a look at the behind the scenes progress:


Man-Bat and Dr. Strange Previously met in STF#2993 and STF #2833...

10 comments:

  1. As a now-retired co-worker of mine once said: "Cool Beans!" :-)

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  2. Seriously, though: the first two times they met, they were only eleven hundred and sixty issues apart. This time, it was almost two thousand! Compatible image-captures of this duo must be the rarest-occurring on all the Internet. Triple kudos for being able to bring them together more than twice!

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  3. "Baron Tyme," huh? Kind of reminds me of a clean-shaven Baron Brimstone (another Ditko creation). But, with a little bit of Ross Andru's "Ty M. Master" (a one-shot Wonder Woman foe) thrown in for good measure!

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  4. Baron Tyme's first name: Justin.

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  5. So in the comic he was just in the wrong Sanctum Sanctorum while looking for Doctor Strange.

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    1. Could've been worse. He could've been found by the other Dr. Strange. The one who almost drained off all of Iron Man's power supply in his 1963 Marvel debut!

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  6. and helping the Baron was his cousin, RoseMary! Ditto Ditko!

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  7. He was never the same since he lost his darling, Clemintine!!

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    1. When her father's mine flooded with brine?

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