Doctor Strange by Donny Cates — Loki and Damnation
Donny Cates · Nick Spencer · Gabriel Hernandez Walta · Niko Henrichon · Rod Reis
Story era 11 · After the Multiverse
Cates and Walta connect Stephen Strange’s life with Loki and Bats before the Damnation conflict and its adjacent Strange stories.
Setup & reading order
- After Doctor Strange (2015) #385
Read the collected Damnation core with the adjacent Doctor Strange chapters in the book’s sequence. Wider tie-ins remain optional.
Optional context & path
Path: Doctor Strange by Cates. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.
Useful background and earlier stops: Doctor Strange by Aaron & Bachalo · Doctor Strange by Jed MacKay.
Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.
About these books · 4 sources
Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.
- r/DoctorStrange — modern Strange recommendations (opens in a new tab)Readers
- AIPT — Doctor Strange by Donny Cates review (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
- Marvel / Penguin Random House — Doctor Strange by Donny Cates (opens in a new tab)Publisher
- Grand Comics Database — Doctor Strange by Donny Cates (opens in a new tab)Reference
The books
Doctor Strange by Donny Cates
Book 1 of 1 · After the Multiverse
Legacy-numbered Doctor Strange follows the Aaron/Bachalo phase. The Loki/Bats chapters lead into the collected Damnation core, well before MacKay’s later death-and-return cycle.
See reading checkpoints9781302950064Planned edition#381–390#1–4Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Duplication across this project
These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.
No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.
Things to know
- Damnation is broader and less focused than the opening Loki story. The strongest reasons to include this run are its visual storytelling and Strange’s supporting cast.