10 Worst Things Doctor Strange Has Ever Done
4. He Upset Stan Lee
Writer, Steven Englehart, wrote some pretty surreal stories about the Sorcerer Supreme (even by Doctor Strange standards). During Englehart's run, Strange met founding father, Benjamin Franklin, visited Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, and confronted Death itself.
However, Englehart's defining moment is when he wrote a story where Strange fought a space wizard called Sise-Neg. Marvel writer, Stan Lee, was unhappy with this story since this wizard was clearly supposed to be God.
How did Stan Lee know this? First off, “Sise-Neg” is “Genesis” backwards. Also, Sise-Neg admits that he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; twin cities that God obliterated according to the Bible. On top of that, Sise-Neg says he’s God in the story. (That should have been the first sign.)
Lee was worried that religious readers would be offended by this story and so, asked Englehart to make a statement that Sise-Neg was not God.
Shortly after, Marvel received a letter from a priest saying he loved the story and thought Sise-Neg was a great idea. Marvel writers printed this letter in the next issue and said Englehart didn’t have to make a statement. Little did Marvel know that the "priest" who wrote in was a Marvel artist and Englehart's friend, Frank Brunner.