Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange's History

Stephen Strange, Jr. was the son of the sorcerer Doctor Strange and his former pupil Clea. The same day Clea told Stephen she was pregnant, he abruptly vanished without a trace. Grief-stricken and lost, Clea rejected her studies and belief system, and raised her son, Stephen Strange, Jr., in the suburbs, keeping him without knowledge of his father or the world of the occult, only disclosing that her husband was a surgeon and claiming that he had died in a car accident. Clea also violently discouraged any of Stephen Jr.'s attempts to find out more about his father.

On Stephen's twenty-first birthday, he was approached by Wong, the trusted servant of Stephen's father, who was waiting until he was of age to introduced him to the legacy left behind. Wong offered Stephen to pick up his father's duty, and he accepted. Barely a year after he started training, Stephen was targeted by the magician Xandu, who attempted to steal the Wand of Watoomb from the Sanctum Sanctorum. Xandu initially mind-controlled the vigilante Spider-Man to do his bidding, and the wall-crawler was eventually freed from Xandu's control and helped Strange defeat the villain.

Becoming more experienced in the use of the mystic arts but not yet at his father's level, Stephen started supporting himself as a new-age guru to the rich, powerful, and famous. He was known to the public as "Dr. Strange," although he did not hold a medical degree or doctorate. He had another run-in with Spider-Man, which resulted from Nightmare's attempt to possess Strange after Stephen accidentally let his defenses down when projecting his astral form. After Nightmare possessed Spider-Man, Doctor Strange managed to break him free from the creature's hold.

Doctor Strange joined Daredevil's team fighting against the Kingpin, the Ultimate Knights. However in the end he and the team almost lost to the Kingpin, until the fortunate survival of Moon Knight who was able to come the police with evidence of Fisk's crime, allowing the crime boss to be arrested.

When Manhattan was devasted by the Ultimatum Wave, the defenses of the Sanctum Sanctorum were broken down, allowing magical fiends to run amok. Doctor Strange was briefly possessed by Nightmare until the Hulk defeated the creature. Shortly afterwards, Strange confronted Dormammu. Despite's Strange's bravado, Dormammu managed to overpower him in battle and used Stephen's own sash to constrict his body until his head exploded. Following Stephen's horrific death, a mysterious silhouette approached his corpse produced a flash of light.