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Doctor Strange: One-Shots
Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic #1
The companion to the LAST DAYS OF MAGIC epic! The Empirikul, led by The Imperator, are destroying all magic and magic users in the Marvel Universe. Jason Aaron brings you Doctor Strange and Wong's secret history and the ultimate sacrifice that Wong makes! Gerry Duggan shows Brother Voodoo's stand against the evil magic-eaters. James Robinson introduces a new magic figure in the Marvel U just in time for her last stand!
45 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,357 books1,680 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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May 7, 2016
This book follows Doctor Strange #6 and shows how The Last Days of Magic have affected the different mages across the globe. It's filled with some great backstory ones for really interesting characters. It's definitely worth picking up.
August 15, 2018
Una serie genial❤ ¡Pero vaya final! NECESITO SEGUIR LEYENDO A DR. STRANGE.
March 4, 2019
Another really good Doctor Strange arc. It starts pretty much into the story. Science vs Magic. Hating magic the Emperikul want to cleanse the world of all magic and deplete magic from basically every user on earth.
Can Stephen Strange save the day with help from other former magic users...those still alive that is.
Dark and for biding this is rather a depressing and almost hopeless story but it draws you in all the same.
Good stuff.
Can Stephen Strange save the day with help from other former magic users...those still alive that is.
Dark and for biding this is rather a depressing and almost hopeless story but it draws you in all the same.
Good stuff.
May 27, 2025
Doctor Strange: Last Days of Magic
Marvel, One-shot
The EMPIRKUL, an army from an alternate dimension, are searching for masters of magic and mystical objects… and are destroying both.
We are introduced to the following characters:
In Mexico, enter El Medico Mistico and his storm of sharks. I bet the Weather Channel had a field day with that.
In New Orleans, enter Doctor Voodoo. He survives the EMPIRKUL attack thanks to Pym particles.
In Tibet, enter Mahatma Doom, the surviving monk from Victor Von Doom’s betrayal of the monastery years ago.
In China, enter the Elite immortal Alchemist, said to be more spirit than flesh.
Flashback to Hong Kong and the August Wu of the Coral Shore. She rescues Dr Strange from Dormammu’s acolytes. Strange meets her cop husband Adam and their daughter Alice. After her mother’s death, Alice becomes the new Wu and is confronted by the EMPIRKUL in the present.
Enter Kaoz, the Siberian Seer, captured by the EMPIRKUL.
The story continues in Dr Strange issue 7.
Fun issue mainly to introduce new magical characters into the Marvel Universe. I’d like to read more of El Medico Mistico, Mahatma Doom, and Kaoz.
Best Quotes.
Zelma – “No offence, Wong, but the only thing that scares me more than these books is whatever comes out of your kitchen.”
Dr. Voodoo – “I’m on a team with Deadpool… I know all about suffering.”
Marvel, One-shot
The EMPIRKUL, an army from an alternate dimension, are searching for masters of magic and mystical objects… and are destroying both.
We are introduced to the following characters:
In Mexico, enter El Medico Mistico and his storm of sharks. I bet the Weather Channel had a field day with that.
In New Orleans, enter Doctor Voodoo. He survives the EMPIRKUL attack thanks to Pym particles.
In Tibet, enter Mahatma Doom, the surviving monk from Victor Von Doom’s betrayal of the monastery years ago.
In China, enter the Elite immortal Alchemist, said to be more spirit than flesh.
Flashback to Hong Kong and the August Wu of the Coral Shore. She rescues Dr Strange from Dormammu’s acolytes. Strange meets her cop husband Adam and their daughter Alice. After her mother’s death, Alice becomes the new Wu and is confronted by the EMPIRKUL in the present.
Enter Kaoz, the Siberian Seer, captured by the EMPIRKUL.
The story continues in Dr Strange issue 7.
Fun issue mainly to introduce new magical characters into the Marvel Universe. I’d like to read more of El Medico Mistico, Mahatma Doom, and Kaoz.
Best Quotes.
Zelma – “No offence, Wong, but the only thing that scares me more than these books is whatever comes out of your kitchen.”
Dr. Voodoo – “I’m on a team with Deadpool… I know all about suffering.”
June 14, 2022
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July 28, 2022
I ❤️ comics dr strange
August 7, 2016
There is something about magic that compels me to read about it. In this case, magic and Chris Bachalo's insane art makes it even more thrilling. This book feels like an action movie that does not take itself too seriously - after all, this is a story about a guy who wears a cape, flashes arcane bling, eats tentacles and rocks a goatee. In this epic tale, Stephen Strange the Sorcerer Supreme (lots of alliteration there!) attempts to save magic from the evils of SCIENCE GONE MAD! Will he succeed? I imagine so, in time, but not without a price. Let's hope the cost will be some of his 1960's retro costume.
October 10, 2023
This Marvel comic was very interesting and I enjoyed reading about the characters and their ends of the stories before bringing them all to one place and having them work together was an amazing pert of this story
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August 10, 2016There was so many magic in this world, people with their own story.
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