Roger Stern had a long, productive run on DOCTOR STRANGE in the early eighties, with several high points. But his collaboration with Marshall Rogers and Terry Austin in DOCTOR STRANGE 48-53 provided one of the all-time great, albeit too brief, runs for the character.
Rogers and Austin had previously worked together with Steve Englehart on a critically lauded BATMAN run a few years earlier, and their reunion on DOCTOR STRANGE with Stern demonstrated how true synergy between collaborators can elevate genre comics.