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Doctor Strange 183

"They Walk by Night"
Writer Roy Thomas, Artist Gene Colan, Embellishment Tom Palmer

Doc is flying through the night trying to puzzle out the events of the last couple days. He received a telegraph for Stephan Saunders. It turns out he outed himself as the Master of Magic and Eternity has conspired to adjust the universe for this. He has given Strange an id of Stephan Saunders. This was Doc can hide when need be. It is so complete that even old documents have the new name on it. An old friend needed him so he went. When he got to his friends place he found a butler and body guards. His friend Kenneth Ward was an adventurer and never need such luxuries. Strange senses something wrong but goes in. He find Ward in a wheelchair with little memory why he summoned Strange. He seems dazed and weak, Strange suspects foul play and stays for the night. After he is locked in his room he makes an illusion of him and flies up to Ward's office. He can tell there is a spell and he uses magic to get through it. Ward relates that months ago he was in the Himalayas when he found a temple Three evil statues leared down at him when he found a smaller statue that he takes home. Just then "Three Creatures of the Night" come in and Ward says "We who serve the Undying Ones." It is his "servants" . They ture out to be evil creatures of some power and jump Strange and are almost as powerful he is but sensing their words he calls forward daylight which destroy them. They say "Beware the Wrath of the Undying ones" and fade away. Strange looks over to his friend to find out he is dead. the battle was too much a strain so Doc will finds the idol and carry on. Then the book advertises the next issue to be "The Searchers" but it turns out the series was cancelled. I don't know if they finished the storyline but it looked good. Well have to dig around sometime.