"'Doctor Strange,' I've been talking about for years," said Feige.
"He's a great, original character, and he checks the box off this criteria that I have: he's totally different from anything else we have (and) totally different from anything we've done before...which keeps us excited."
Written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Steve Ditko, 'Doctor Strange' debuted in Marvel Comics' "Strange Tales" #110 (July 1963), with Ditko fashioning the physical look of the character after creator Lee Falk's 1930's hypnotic comic strip character "Mandrake The Magician".
'Dr. Stephen Strange' was an arrogant, womanizing world-renowned neurosurgeon, until a Chappaquiddick-like car accident damaged his hands, preventing him from conducting surgery.
In bitter desperation, he seeks out a legendary Tibetan hermit living in a 'Lost Horizon' of the Himalayas who may have a cure for his debilitating condition.
Strange finds 'The Ancient One', possessed of the knowledge of sorcerous spells and incantations, invoking names and aspects of extra-dimensional objects and beings of power.
Some of these phenomena include the 'Flames of the Faltine', the 'Shades of the Seraphim' and the 'Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth'.
When Strange selflessly thwarts the evil ambitions of the Ancient One's disciple 'Baron Mordo', the 500-year old wizard tutors Strange in the 'mystic arts', teaching him how to use magical artifacts to augment his power, including the 'Cloak of Levitation', the all-seeing 'Eye of Agamotto' and the 'Book of the Vishanti'.
Strange uses his magic to achieve a number of effects, including energy projection, teleportation, telepathy and astral projection.
He was also schooled in the use of addictive and corruptive 'dark magic' by one-time foe 'Kaluu', using it to destroy the entity known as 'Shuma-Gorath'.
Doctor Strange has also been featured in several self-titled Marvel Comics series and Marvel-endorsed products including arcade/video games, animated TV series, a direct-to-DVD film and merchandise including trading cards.
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