Doctor Strange: From the Marvel Vault Vol 1 1

A Marvel Masterpiece from deep inside the treasure vaults can now be told!

For decades, Doctor Stephen Strange has worked as a practicing sorcerer out of the weird old brownstone at 177A Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. But what eerie secrets does the building hide? What lurks within its walls? Is it ... haunted? Now, at last, the full story of Doctor Strange's first night in his Sanctum Sanctorum stands revealed –- in a tale tastefully told by Roger Stern (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and dramatically drawn by those Masters of the Comic Arts, Neil Vokes and Jay Geldhof (UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS, The Black Forest).

• This story is an expansion of Roger Stern's brief backstory of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum that had been published twenty-eight years earlier in Doctor Strange (Vol. 2) #56. As revealed by Mr. Stern in the "Secrets of the Vault!" message that appeared on the first page, this story had been plotted back in 1998 for the short-lived Marvel Universe ongoing series that was canceled before the story was completed. In 2010, when Marvel had expressed an interest in printing that long-lost story, Mr. Stern was able to find a copy of the plot in his files and finally script the story, over twelve years after it was originally plotted.
• Patrick Lamb, the man who sold the townhouse to Dr. Strange, previously appeared as the unnamed realtor in that earlier story. With this story, his creator Roger Stern finally gave him a name.
• Although Doc seems to refer to his amulet as the Eye of Agamotto, the fact that it's the first amulet that he had been given by the Ancient One means that it must actually be the less-powerful Amulet of Agamotto.