This book collects the 3 issue Fever mini-series by Brendan McCarthy and an early meeting between Spider-man and Doctor Strange from Spider-Man Annual #2 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Lee and Ditko, of course, require no introduction to fans of Spider-Man or Doctor Strange. I am a big fan of McCarthy’s art which can be found in Judge Dredd and others for 2000AD, Skin (a tale of a thalidomide skinhead written by Peter Milligan) and Rogan Gosh (also written by Milligan) that was published in Revolver and then reprinted in the US by Vertigo.
Fever is a hallucinogenic fever dream in which Doctor Strange goes on a psychedelic quest to rescue Spider-Man’s soul bunch of spider demons from another dimension.
In many ways the story is immaterial. It is only an excuse for McCarthy to give free reign to his art style and create a wonderful trippy book with fantastic depictions of the other dimensions that Doctor Strange must travel through. The main character design also pays tribute to the great Steve Ditko who helped to create both of these characters. Find out more about his motivations for doing the series in this interview with McCarthy.
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