Doctor Strange: The Oath #1

Writer: Brian K. Vaughan
Marvel Comics
$2.99 US, $3.75 CAN

Arana and Iron Fist are in the waiting room of the Night Nurse when Wong bursts in carrying the dead and limp body of Doctor Stephen Strange.

Losing blood, Wong informs the Night Nurse that his blood could be used to supplant the loss of Strange's.

In an office elsewhere, Brigand boasts about how he killed the good Doctor in order to deliver a vial. A man in silhouette is far less convinced on the fate of Strange. Wondering about the vial, Brigand is told that should tests reveal it to be what it is, it will be emptied out.

Strange recounts how he inadvertently discovers the fact that Wong has a brain tumour. Terminal and with only months to live, it's revealed that Wong has found his replacement, a cousin back home who has been trained in the arts of man-serving to the occult.

Strange flashbacks to when he crashed his car and lost the ability to perform fine medical procedures. Strange then sets out to find another way to cure Wong and they find themselves in a seedy part of town. Wong takes down some thugs as Strange travels to another dimension in search of the cure.

Back through the portal, after battling a beast, Strange opts to test the elixir before attempting to cure Wong. The tests finished, the elixir has been stolen before it can be used. Sitting up on the table post-surgery, Strange informs the Night Nurse that the vial in question contains the cure to cancer.

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