Issue(s): Doctor Strange #14
Cover Date: May 76
Title: "The tomb of Dr. Strange!"
Credits:
Steve Englehart - Writer
Gene Colan - Penciler
Tom Palmer - Inker

Review/plot:
Of this Dracula/Dr. Strange crossover, Steve Englehart writes on his website "Marv killed Doc at the end of his half and I killed Drac at the end of mine.", and that's pretty much as deep as i need to get into the plot (not that this wasn't a fun story, with great Gene Colan art in both issues).

One thing that was interesting was that when Strange tried to re-enter his body after Dracula killed it, he became some sort of merged vampire thing for a while that Dracula couldn't control. I thought that was neat.

After defeating Dracula, Strange is able to revive Wong and cure himself.

Quality Rating: C

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: N/A

References:

• While Strange is stuck in his astral form, he haunts Dracula using illusions of his past enemies, including Doctor Sun, who Dracula destroyed in Tomb of Dracula #42.

Crossover: N/A

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Steve Englehart revealed in a later interview that he wanted to show that Lord Pfyffe's family was under a demonic curse, and after that a 4-part Dr. Strange vs. Fu Manchu story costarring Shang-Chi, but he left Marvel before he could do either.

FOOM#12 announced a 3-part Dr. Strange story drawn by Frank Brunner about Egyptian gods, but it didn't happen.

The spell Dr. Strange uses to defeat Dracula calls upon the "Tetragrammaton" and "Jehovah" - Hebrew expressions for God. I thought this was an interesting departure from the usual spells calling on fictional entities like Cyttorak or the Vishanti.

Considering the problems that Ghost Rider was having with a literal representation of the Judeo-Christian God, Dr. Strange calling upon the power of God Himself had to be something that slipped by. It's tasteful(and obscure) enough, considering every movie relies on mortals invoking some representation of God(usually a cross) to protect themselves from the "Prince of Darkness." This was essentially a prayer to God phrased as a Dr. Strange spell. Still, this most have played into the mindset that Jim Shooter spoke of when he was speaking of the "Christianization" of the Marvel Universe.