Doctor Strange #56 (1982)

Dr. Strange has agreed to allow Morgana Blessing and a documentary film crew to come to his Sanctum Sanctorum to interview him about his past and his background in the occult and Black Arts. As Strange begins to tell his tale, Wong and Sara Wolfe are concerned because Strange had previously always tried to avoid drawing attention to his activities. Strange recounts his life as a renowned surgeon and the accident that stripped away his ability to perform his lucrative craft. He tells about how he heard about the Ancient One and sought him out to heal his damaged hands and how he became a practitioner of the mystic arts when he learned that the Ancient One's original apprentice, Baron Mordo, was plotting to betray his master. He also tells how, after seven years of training with the Ancient One, his master sent him out to find a place to practise his mystic arts and how he selected his home in Greenwich Village due to its past use as a source of magical power, as it had been home to Satanists in colonial times and prior to that had been where Native American tribes had once held arcane rituals. He would also recount how Wong would one day come to him and volunteer to serve Strange much like his ancestors had cared for the Ancient One. After speaking of some of his many encounters with magical and super-powered beings over the years, Strange reveals that he is aware that the camera crew are frauds, and that they are in reality three of his old foes: Demonicus, Adria and Kaecilius. Exposed, the trio flee into the Sanctum's many rooms to try and best the Doctor in combat. However, they are unprepared for the maze-like Sanctum and its mystical properties. In battling Strange in mystical combat, Adria tries to gain the upper hand by using one of the many artifacts laying about in that room. She makes the mistake of trying to use the Gem from the Purple Dimension and ends up banishing herself, Demonicus and Kaecilius to that realm, abruptly ending their battle with Strange. Reuniting with Wong, Sara and Morgana, Strange explains that this is but part of his life as Sorcerer Supreme, and he and Morgana decide to -- for the time being -- just be friends, to see if this eternal love that Morgana has for him due to her past lives involvement with him is fated to flourish.