Strange's appearance in Spidey's Halloween special

So it’s actually old Marvel Canon that Doctor Strange was born in 1930 (He’s not aging as Sorcerer Supreme) and his father was something of a… well, kind of a jerk who discouraged anything fanciful and what he considered frivolous.

Stephen’s Father didn’t even believe in celebrating Birthdays and once punished Stephen for showing pride in a blue ribbon he won for a spelling Bee. As a child Stephen Strange had a natural attraction to Magick, unaware of the innate powers waiting inside him. However his father squashed that interest around the age of eleven.

Doctor Strange is essentially what would have happened if Harry Potter had not been able to attend Hogwarts until he was in his forties.

Now fast forward to 2016. Here we have the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series. It doesn’t precisely follow the comics at all. In fact it plays loose and free with a lot of canon. However it keeps the canon fact that poor Doctor Strange has never experienced Trick or Treating for himself. So toward the end of the episode called “Strange Little Halloween” Spider-Man talks Doctor Strange and Ant Man into trick or treating with him and the first stop they make is Nova’s door where this happens…

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and

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This is now my favorite Halloween gif set.

Another moment I love from this cartoon series is the first episode we see Doctor Strange Spider-Man asks him to guess what number he's thinking of. Doctor Strange replies with "You're not thinking of a number. You're thinking of flapjacks." And sure enough he was right.