Some months later, I returned to the site and found it had been transformed into a gallery of pictures of Strange's friends and enemies -- but what pictures! They looked like "bobblehead" dolls, the heads being about twice the size of the proportions of the bodies. I learned that Erik had discovered MicroHeroes, and turned his site into a display of his "creations". I thought this was a cute idea. However, some major foes, like Tiboro, were missing, so I decided I'd try my hand at making them myself.
Along the way, I got distracted and stopped making Dr. Strange figures, instead turning to versions of the early Marvel monsters. But here are some of the figures I did.
By the way, Erik has since expanded his site to include both the Micros and the information I'd first seen. You can visit it at http://www.drstrange.nl/.
The Possessors |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #118, "The Possessed!"
Dr. Strange's orb locates an investation of evil in the Balkans. Arriving in a village there, he finds some of the inhabitants to be possessed -- not by spirits, but by alien invaders from another dimension. He challenges their leader to combat and defeats him, then locks the aliens out of our dimension. |
Aggamon |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #119, "Beyond the Purple
Veil!"
Two burglars raid Dr. Strange's home but are caught by a mystic jewel. Doc follows them into the jewel and the world of the tyrant Aggamon, whom he must defeat before he can return to our world. |
The House of Shadows |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #120, "The House of Shadows!"
Dr. Strange joins the audience watching a televison reporter investigate a supposedly haunted house. When the reporter announces strange phenomena, shortly before his broadcast is cut off, Doc decides to stand by no longer. Entering the house, he discovers the house is not actually haunted -- instead, it is a living being from a shadowy dimension. After forcing the house to free the trapped reporter, he banishes it from our world. |
Zota |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #124, "The Lady from Nowhere!"
An entranced woman appears in Dr. Strange's study. Investigation shows she has been sent into our time from the past. With the help of the Ancient One, Dr. Strange sends his astral spirit along the trail through time created by the woman's passing. He finds she has been exiled by Zota, a rebellious wizard. Doc forces Zota to break the exile, then returns to his time, to send the woman, Cleopatra, back to her own time. |
Demonicus |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #128, "The Demon's Disciple!"
A desparate man calls on Dr. Strange for help in escaping his master, a sorcerer calling himself "The Demon". When the man vanishes from within his very clothes, Doc animates the clothes to retrace the man's path from the Demon's sanctum, where they fight a magical duel. (The sorcerer is later called "Demonicus", to distinguish him from actual demons Doc has faced.) |
Tiboro |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #129, "Beware... Tiboro!
The Tyrant of the Sixth Dimension!"
Dr. Strange refuses to appear on a TV show about magic but is forced to rescue its hosts when an idol they present turns into a gateway to another world. There, Tiboro, once ruler of a lost civilatation on Earth, plans to return to Earth, but Doc manages to beat him in combat and free the hosts. |
Kaecilius |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #130, "The Defeat of Dr.
Strange"
In the first episode of a long story, Dr. Strange is attacked by his arch-enemy, Baron Mordo, who, accompanied by disciples such as Kaecilius, forces him to hide the Ancient One and spend many months dodging Mordo's agents. |
a Nether Wraith |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #130, "The Defeat of Dr.
Strange"
Mordo sends the Nether Wraiths to search for Dr. Strange, undetected by normal human eyes. |
a Hong Kong sorcerer |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #130, "The Defeat of Dr.
Strange"
Travelling incognito, Dr. Strange visits many friends, looking for the source of Mordo's new power. In Hong Kong, an unnamed minor sorcerer almost traps Doc, but he manages to beat the sorcerer and his men and escape. |
Shazana |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #133, "A Nameless Land,
A Timeless Time!"
Having discovered the dread Dormammu is the source of Mordo's new power, Dr. Strange turns a spell meant to destroy him into a means of travelling to an unknown dimension. There, he meets a female, once the ruler until deposed by her sister, Shazana, and helps her regain her throne by finding and destroying the source of Shazana's power. He then uses the destructive force to carry him back to his own dimension. |
Sir Baskerville |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #135, "Eternity Beckons!"
Having learned that a power called "Eternity" may grant him power to beat Mordo and Dormammu, Dr. Strange begins searching for Eternity. His first stop is the castle of Sir Baskerville, a former disciple of Mordo's who retired from the study of mysticism when he lost a hand. Baskerville still owns many rare mystic artifacts and offers to aid Doc, but it's a trap -- Baskerville is actually working for Mordo again. Doc manages to learn the truth and escape unharmed. |
the masker demon |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #136, "What Lurks
Beneath the Mask?"
The aged sorcerer Genghis gives Dr. Strange a scroll that might help locate Eternity, but instead it leads him to a world where an unnamed demon traps the unwary, controlling them through masks it makes of their faces. Doc both defeats the demon and destroys all the masks, allowing the prisoners to return to their own homes. |
Adria |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #142, "Those Who Would
Destroy Me!"
Having beaten Dormammu and Mordo, a weary Dr. Strange returns home, only to fall victim to a simple bomb. Agents of Baron Mordo (including Kaecilius and Demonicus), led by Adria take him prisoner and seal his head and hands in mystic shackles, so that he is unable to work a spell. He must escape using only his brain and the ability to release his astral form for short peiods. |
Asti |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #144, "Where Man Hath Never
Trod!"
In defeat, Dormammu spitefully cast the woman, Clea, who aided Dr. Strange, into another dimension. Now Doc searches for her. Using that as bait, Dormammu sends his agent, Asti, to the dimension of Tazza, and Doc misinterprets the action as being related to Clea's exile. |
Tazza |
First Appeared: Strange Tales #144, "Where Man Hath Never
Trod!"
Lured to the dimension of the paranoid sorcerer Tazza, Dr. Strange searches for Clea, only to be attacked by Tazza in a variety of forms. Doc uses the previously entranced prisoners of Tazza to keep the sorcerer off-guard until he can capture Tazza. |