Doctor Strange #6

Name: Doctor Strange #6
Brand: Marvel
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Feb 1975 · Marvel · 0.25 USD

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“Lift High the Veil of Fears!”

★ 1st appearance — Gaea

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Doctor Strange #6 (vol. 2, February 1975) is the first appearance of the entity known here as 'Mother Nature' — the being who would be retroactively established as Gaea, an Elder God with enormous consequence across the Marvel Universe, later revealed as the mother of Thor and a key figure in the Thor and Avengers mythologies. The issue is simultaneously a pivotal moment for Clea, marking the first time she acts independently as a sorcerer-in-training rather than as a passive supporting character — a narrative step that began reshaping her into a heroine in her own right. It also opens the multi-part Dormammu/Umar storyline that fans and later critics would point to as a high-water mark of Steve Englehart's Bronze Age tenure on the title. Finally, it represents a creative inflection point: the last Doctor Strange cover drawn solely by Frank Brunner, who was departing for Howard the Duck, while Gene Colan stepped in as the new regular penciler — a changing-of-the-guard that bridged two celebrated artistic eras of the series.

writer Steve Englehart · artist Gene Colan · inker Klaus Janson · colorist Petra Goldberg · letterer Tom Orzechowski · cover Frank Brunner

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History

Issue #6 arrived directly on the heels of the celebrated Englehart/Brunner partnership, which had ended with issue #5 of the second volume. Brunner, who had co-plotted and drawn the series with Englehart, contributed one final piece to the book before moving on: the cover, which he penciled, inked, and colored himself. The interior art duties passed to Gene Colan — a veteran who had previously penciled the character's first solo volume alongside Roy Thomas and Tom Palmer in the late 1960s — inked here by a young Klaus Janson. Len Wein served as editor, and the issue was published with a cover date of February 1975 (on-sale November 1974).

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First appearance of 'Mother Nature,' the entity later named and developed as Gaea — an Elder God created by Steve Englehart and Gene Colan who would go on to appear across Thor, Avengers, and many other Marvel series, with her full origin detailed in Thor Annual #10 (1982).
Story title: 'Lift High the Veil of Fears!' — written by Steve Englehart, penciled by Gene Colan, inked by Klaus Janson, colored by Petra Goldberg, lettered by Tom Orzechowski, edited by Len Wein.
Cover by Frank Brunner — penciled, inked, and colored by Brunner alone — representing his final cover contribution to the ongoing series before he departed to focus on Howard the Duck.
Gene Colan's debut as regular interior penciler on the second Doctor Strange volume, a return to the character after his celebrated late-1960s run on the first Doctor Strange series.
Features Umar the Unrelenting (created by Roy Thomas and Bill Everett in Strange Tales #150, Nov. 1966) in only her third story-arc appearance; Dormammu also makes a cameo, re-emerging from the Earth in the issue's closing pages.
Marks the first time Clea acts autonomously as a student of sorcery, answering Mother Nature's call without Strange — a significant moment in her evolution as an independent character.
Contains Marvel Value Stamp Series A #37 (The Watcher, art by John Buscema) on the letters page — a collectible insert Marvel embedded in many Bronze Age titles.
Reprinted in: Essential Doctor Strange vol. 3 (December 2007), Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange vol. 5 (April 2011), Doctor Strange Epic Collection vol. 4: Alone Against Eternity (2020), Super Spider-Man (Marvel UK) #166–167 (April 1976), Doctor Strange (Newton Comics, 1975 series) #5, and Le Fils de Satan (Arédit-Artima, France) #11 (1979) in black-and-white.