Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Doctor Strange omnibus for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll.
As one of the organizers of the poll, I work closely with Tigereyes and a team of Mapping Minties to be sure Marvel’s entire publishing history has been mapped, with every issue fitting somewhere into an omnibus volume to fill your oversize Marvel shelf. Then, we’ll kick off the poll on Near Mint Condition on March 22, 2026.
Marvel announced a pair of Doctor Strange omnibuses for 2025… and then none in 2026! That makes an amount of sense, since Strange’s classic volumes have previously come out on a 3-6 year interval and he has not been at the forefront of any big events in comics or media properties.
However, Strange’s next classic omnibus is the hotly demanded Roger Stern material that has done well on the Tigereyes poll since its inception. And, we only need two modern omnibuses to cover over 20 years of Strange from 1997 to 2019, both of which can be marketed under the eternally-respected name of Mark Waid.
Your votes could really make a difference in sending a signal to Marvel that we want these books sooner rather than later!
Read this post and others in the series for a list of titles and omnibus mappings created by a group of the biggest collected edition enthusiasts on the internet. Every map is informed by Crushing Krisis comic guides and over a decade of polling data as explained by yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet, including my Guide to Doctor Strange.
Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!
This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:
- Bronze Age Doctor Strange
- Doctor Strange: Clea, Sorceress of The Dark Dimension (1964 – 2023)
- Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Vol. 2 (1977 – 1983) [MMW 7-9 AKA AKA by Roger Stern Vol. 1]
- Modern Era Doctor Strange
- Doctor Strange: The Oath & Other Tales (1997 – 2011) [AKA by Vaughan, JMS, et al, follows Sorcerer Supreme Vol. 3]
- Doctor Strange in All-New All-Different Marvel & Marvel Fresh Start
- Doctor Strange: The Damnation Saga by Donny Cates et al (2016 – 2018) [AKA Aaron Companion; includes Magic Bullets, Sorcerers Supreme, etc]
- Doctor Strange by Mark Waid (2010 – 2019 (& 2026))
Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to make the books easy to find and to vote for. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific mapping. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.
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Doctor Strange Omnibus Mapping: Bronze Age Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange: Clea, Sorceress of The Dark Dimension (1964 – 2023)
Clea is Strange’s partner and a powerful sorcerer both in her home dimension and on Earth. She has had many plot-significant stories with Strange in his comics, as well as some solo adventures of her own.
This book would largely double-dip other Doctor Strange omnibuses, but not exclusively. If you love Clea – or if Clea ever returns as a solo star in her own right (as she was for a while under the pen of Jed MacKay), this book would be the perfect recap of her history as a character.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Clea’s material in one place.
This book would collect Strange Tales (1951) #126-127, Marvel Feature (1972) #2; Defenders (1974) #24-25, 39, 53; Doctor Strange (1974) #6-9, 35-39, 45-46, 71-74; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #76-77 & 80-81; Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #2-5, 12-13, 67; Doctor Strange (2015) #389 & Annual 1; Strange (2022) #1-10; and material from Marvel Premiere (1972) #12, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #20, Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #22, Annual 2, & 4, Midnight Suns Unlimited (1993) #6, Epic Anthology (2004) #1, and Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z (2008) #2.
The first three Doctor Strange omnibuses are Doctor Strange Vol. 1, Doctor Strange Vol. 2, and the recently-released Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Vol. 1, which collect from his debut in 1963 through 1977 – see Guide to Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Vol. 2 (1977 – 1983) [MMW 7-9 AKA by Roger Stern Vol. 1]
We have received three classic Doctor Strange omnibuses that have collected only six Masterworks worth of material instead of nine.
That breakdown seemed wild when we received our first brief Doctor Strange Vol. 1 omnibus in 2016, but now it makes slightly more sense. Strange’s Silver Age material was over 1,100 pages – more than Marvel prefers to collect in a single Silver Age omnibus. And, there was a clean break afterward to so Master of the Mystic Arts Vol. 1 could start cleanly with the beginning of his Bronze Age material.
Now, why is that omnibus so short? That remains a complete mystery. The only explanation I can find is that Roger Stern’s run starts midway through the next Masterworks volume with Doctor Strange (1974) #27, and Marvel didn’t want to break the volume in half or start Stern’s run at the end of this volume, so they truncated this book to just two Masterworks.
Fortunately, I think our struggle with short Strange omnibuses is now over. This volume should collect the contents Masterworks Volumes 7-9, and a next volume will collect Volumes 10-11 and a to-be-announced 12, which would perfectly meet up with the Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme omnibus line on the other side.
A vote for this book is to finally get Doctor Strange by Roger Stern in omnibus – a book that has been demanded since the second annual Tigereyes poll in 2014!
This would collect Doctor Strange (1974) #23-57; Man-Thing (1979) #4; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #5; What If? (1977) #18; and material from Chamber of Chills (1972) #3-4, Defenders (1972) #53, Marvel Comics Calendar 1980, Marvel Fanfare (1972) #6, Crazy [Magazine] (1973) #88, and entries from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
(Then, the next volume would conclude the line by collecting Doctor Strange (1974) #58-81, Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) #23 AKA “Into Shamballa”, Strange Tales (1987) #1-19 (Strange stories only, except #7), Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) No. 49 AKA “Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment (1989)”, and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #8 & 31.)
That brings us to Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme Vol. 1-3, which completely collect the good Doctor’s 1988-1996 ongoing series… and delivers us to a 19-year gap in his collections! See Guide to Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange Omnibus Mapping: Modern Era Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange: The Oath & Other Tales (1997 – 2011) [AKA by Vaughan, JMS, et al, follows Sorcerer Supreme Vol. 3]
Doctor Strange did not have a single ongoing series from the end of his 1988 series in 1996 and the start of his All New All Different Marvel series in 2015. However, he did have quite a string of limited series, in addition to appearing with The Defenders and being retconned into being a member of The Illuminati.
We wouldn’t suggest collecting all of Strange’s appearances in various Defenders series into his own omnibus line. However, his plot is a huge part of The Order (2002) (effectively the final arc of Defenders (2001) and he is the lead character of Fear Itself: The Deep (2011) #1-4, so we’d probably want to see both of them here.
A vote for this book is a vote to finally collect all of these disparate Doctor Strange mini-series in one place, after which Marvel can get underway on a Doctor Strange Modern Epic Collection line!
This would collect Doctor Strange [Flight of Bones] (1999) #1-4; Spider-Man: Lifeline (2001) #1-3; The Order (2002) #1-6; Witches (2004) #1-4; Strange (2004) #1-6 [AKA “Beginnings and Endings”]; New Avengers: Illuminator (2006) #1, X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl (2006) #1-5; Doctor Strange: The Oath (2006) #1-5; The Mystic Hands of Doctor Strange (2010) #1; Spider-Man: Fever (2010) #1-3; Fear Itself: The Deep (2011) #1-4; and material from Tales of the Marvel Universe (1997) #1, Shadows and Light (1997) #1-2, and Marvel Double-Shot (2003) #4, and New Avengers (2013) Annual 1/2014.
Because Strange (2004) #1-6 is an origin retelling, it probably makes sense for it be first in this map. There is also an argument to be made that Strange is prominent enough in Defenders (2012) #1-12 that it should be included here in full.
From 2013-2015 Doctor Strange’s primarily role is in Hickman’s New Avengers (2013). He has huge role to play in that series, but not one that it makes sense to excerpt into his own omnibus line. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present).
Doctor Strange Omnibus Mapping: Doctor Strange in All-New All-Different Marvel & Marvel Fresh Start
The first portion of Doctor Strange’s All-New All-Different Marvel series is collected in Doctor Strange by Aaron & Bachalo. – see Guide to Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange: The Damnation Saga by Donny Cates et al (2016 – 2018) [AKA Aaron Companion; includes Magic Bullets, Sorcerers Supreme, etc]
The tricky think about the Doctor Strange by Aaron & Bachalo omnibus is that it is creator-centric instead of collecting an entire series. It collects through Doctor Strange (2015) #20 – the end of Jason Aaron’s run on the title. There’s a lot of other Strange material that runs alongside and beyond that run!
First we have Doctor Strange/Punisher: Magic Bullets (2016) #1-4, written by John Barber and running alongside Aaron’s series. There’s also Robbie Thompson’s all-Sorcerer team-up title, Doctor Strange and The Sorcerers Supreme (2016) #1-10.
Meanwhile, in the ongoing 2015 series, after Aaron there is a run of Secret Empire tie-in issues penned by Dennis Hopeless, followed by a two-issue fill-in by John Barber.
But wait, there’s more! Then, Donny Cates takes over the book with legacy renumbering for a memorable arc with Loki before steering into the Damnation mini-event, itself a sequel to one plot thread from Secret Empire. We’ve had a paperback Complete Collection of Damnation, but a Donny Cates hardcover did not include all of the supporting issues! And, to make things even more frustrating, some collections leave off the final issue of this series – issue #390 – even though it’s written by Cates!
Whew! When all is said and done, we’ve got 44 issues – a sizable omnibus with a several distinct arcs of strong, enjoyable material. For my money and valuable reading time, this is every bit as enjoyable as the Jason Aaron omnibus.
A vote for this book is vote to complete the oversize collection of Doctor Strange’s 2015 ongoing title, while also picking up a pair of supporting series and all of the Damnation event in perfect reading order!
This would collect Doctor Strange/Punisher: Magic Bullets (2016) #1-4; Doctor Strange & The Sorcerers Supreme (2016) #1-12; Doctor Strange (2015) #21-26; Doctor Strange (2016) #381-390; Doctor Strange: Damnation (2018) #1-4, and Damnation tie-ins (Johnny Blaze: Ghost Rider (2018) #1; Iron Fist (1975) #78-80; Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider (2017) #15-17); and material from Doctor Strange (2015) Annual #1 (2nd story).
Doctor Strange by Mark Waid (2010 – 2019 (& 2026))
You might be looking at this year range and feeling slightly confused. Haven’t we already covered 2010 through 2018? Haven’t I said there’s nothing to collect from 2013-2015 while Strange was in Hickman’s New Avengers. And how did we get all the way to 2026? Isn’t there a current ongoing book by Derek Landy?
That’s all true! However, we need to reevaluate the very nature of time and space for one reason: Mark Waid.
Mark Waid writes the next sequential Strange runs in 2018 and 2019 before Jed MacKay takes over for Death of Doctor Strange (2021). that accounts for 27 issues, which makes a fine smallish omnibus.
However, if we’re going to collect a pair of Mark Waid Doctor Strange stories in one book, we ought to include his other Doctor Strange stories.
One of those is Strange (2010) #1-4 AKA “The Oath,” with Emma Rios. That’s probably the most-famous material from Strange between 1998 and 2014, which is why we titled a volume after it above! However, for that same reason, readers will expect it to be in any Doctor Strange book with Waid’s name on the spine.
The second story are two issues of Waid’s S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) #5-6, which are a full-on Strange story right on the cusp of Secret Wars (2015).
Finally, Waid has a Strange story in the anthology title Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts (2025) #4.
A vote for this book is a vote for a complete collection of Mark Waid’s work on Doctor Strange, which also happens to fill half of the gap between Doctor Strange by Strange/Bachalo and Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay.
This would collect Strange (2010) #1-4 AKA “The Oath”; a Strange mini-arc in S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) #5-6; Doctor Strange (2018) #1-20 & Annual 1;Dr. Strange (2019) #1-6, and material from Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts (2025) #4.
We already have two omnibuses that follow the conclusion of Mark Waid’s run on Doctor Strange – Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay and Strange Academy! That takes us into 2024. It’s too soon to try to map the scant handful of Strange Academy series we’ve had since then, and we’re less than 10 issues into Derek Landy writing Strange (already across three different volumes). See Guide to Doctor Strange.
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