Dr. Strange: A Separate Reality

Title: Dr. Strange: A Separate Reality

Creator: Englehart, Steve, and Frank Brunner

Date: 2002

Source: VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives

Publisher: Marvel Comics

Description: This trade paperback compiles Marvel Premier #9-10, #12-14 and Doctor Strange #1-2, #4-5. Unlike the individual comics that it draws from, this volume is perfect bound, features a descriptive back cover, and contains no advertisements. The cover image is derived from Doctor Strange, Vol. 1, No. 1, and when comparing these two side by side, the changes between them are apparent. The comic cover is printed on matte paper and so lacks the shine of the novel, and because of the different quality of printing, the comic cover colors are more muted. The novel cover added depth to the colors on its cover with an increase in shading, but fails to create as dynatic of an image. While the comic’s cover extends the action to the ends of the page with the pile of books in one corner and part of a monstrous arm disappearing around one side, the graphic novel bounds the image with a boarder, blocking it off visually.

Text: Dr. Strange: A Separate Reality

Original Format: Trade Paperback Book