Michael Golden's Dr. Strange

While we all eagerly await Benedict Cucumberpatch as The Sorcerer Supreme, let's check out some stunning Michael Golden pieces for the good doctor. Here's Mike's 1983 portfolio for starters.

And here's a little Roger Stern scripted 5 pager from Doc #46, with Golden inked by Craig Russell, an art team you'll find described in the dictionary as: Too breathtakingly beautiful for this reality.
By the way, we're not just getting Baron Mordo in the movie, are we? Tell me we at least get Dormammu, with maybe Nightmare or Eternity in the epilogue as a teaser for the sequel.

Lady Daemon

I just can't resist it. Let's read some Classic Cheesy Claremont. Lady Daemon is from the Lethal Ladies issue of Bizarre Adventures and actually, it's reasonably free from 'tics', proving he could write a good story without all that nonsense. Even Chris' predilection for making all his characters speak in a cliched celtic lilt makes sense here for once, as these characters are actually Scottish.
And the art, courtesy of Michael Golden & Terry Austin is, of course, brilliant. When they used to talk about comics being 'black & white in colour' this is the kind of thing they meant. The use of photos doesn't quite work, but hey, this was years before photoshop. And I guess, if you were in a nitpicky mood, you could mention that the death card in the Tarot pack doesn't actually mean real death, but who ever gets magic right in comics anyway? Only Steve Ditko.