Series Name: Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts (Vol. 2)
Issue #: 39
Year: 1980
Story Title: "The Old Dark House"

Details:

• 1st appearance of Madeleine St. Germaine, a former love of Doctor Strange who reappears in his life under mysterious circumstances

• Doctor Strange battles Baron Mordo; also introduces Alfeo Cardinal Spinosa, a Catholic priest who oversees the Church's occult libraries

• This is the Mark Jewelers Insert Variant, distributed exclusively to military personnel and overseas bases through PX/BX and armed forces retail channels

Credits:

• Writer: Chris Claremont

• Penciler: Gene Colan

• Inker: Dan Green

• Cover Artist: Al Milgrom

• Publisher: Marvel Comics

• Pages: 32

• Color: Color

• Cover Price: $0.40

OVERVIEW

A Bronze Age key featuring the first appearance of Madeleine St. Germaine, an important supporting character in Doctor Strange's personal history. Chris Claremont scripts a rich, gothic mystery featuring Gene Colan's moody, expressive interiors inked by Dan Green — one of the finest art teams to work on the series. This copy is the scarce Mark Jewelers Insert Variant, identifiable by the Mark Jewelers advertisement insert bound into the comic, distributed through U.S. military retail channels and produced in significantly lower print runs than the standard newsstand edition.