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Warning: contains spoilers for Marvel #5
Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, is charged with defending the planet from all mystical threats, and now his assistant, Wong, has revealed Strange has a little help from a secret network of librarians. In a new preview from the anthology series Marvel, readers are given a glimpse at the story A Day in the Mystical Life of Wong written by Zander Cannon with art by Gene Ha and it becomes apparent that librarians are crucial allies in the fight against evil magic.
In Alex Ross’ Marvel series the industry’s top writers and artists highlight various characters from the company’s 80-year history. The series also features an overarching framing story by Ross and Kurt Busiek. In many ways, the series serves as a spiritual sequel to the pairs’ legendary Marvels series from the early 1990s, and much like its predecessor, Marvel provides fans with a fresh look and new perspective on some of Marvel’s most iconic heroes, and in the latest issue, fans learn that Doctor Strange gets a little help from the librarians of the world.
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The preview from Marvel #5 sees Wong, Doctor Strange’s assistant, enjoying lunch when Strange’s Distress Channel flashes, signaling that something is wrong. Irritated, Wong laments the rather large number of ordinary people who find cursed, magical items such as scrolls or haunted dolls. Wong wishes that rather than handling the items themselves, people would turn them over to librarians who will then “get it to the right people.” Wong tells Strange, who is in Milwaukee, that he will take care of the threat himself, telling Strange that it is probably just kids who have accidentally summoned a demon.
The preview ends there, and readers will have to wait until February 17th to find out what exactly Wong is going up against, but in the meantime, the revelation that Strange uses a network of people, more specifically librarians, to advance his goals makes perfect sense. Librarians help people find the information they need and are thus trained to navigate the world of information skillfully. The librarians Doctor Strange employs are no doubt of the magical variety, much like Zelma, who Strange employs at his Academy. The question is: who else might be in Strange’s network? What might other professions contribute to Doctor Strange’s cause?
As the Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Doctor Strange is immensely powerful, but he is also only one person and thus can only do so much. If he is to defend Earth from magical threats, he must rely on others and Wong reveals that librarians are in his corner.
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