AC Comics Doc Strange was briefly revived in the pages of
Femforce as part of the Vault Heroes, a group of Golden Age superheroes who volunteered to have themselves
cryogenically frozen following
World War II, so that they could be revived should the world need them. He died shortly after being unfrozen, making the heroes realize that the cryogenic process did not work perfectly on everyone. AC Comics went on to reprint many of his
Golden Age adventures in various anthologies.
Tom Strong Doc Strange, along with other heroes from
Nedor Comics, were revived by
Alan Moore in his series
Tom Strong. This revival set the characters on a parallel world called
Terra Obscura, which was also the title of the resulting mini-series. The character was renamed "Thomas Hugo Strange" (or "Tom Strange"), presumably to set him apart from the
Marvel Comics sorcerer
Doctor Strange and
Batman villain
Hugo Strange, and to present him as a Terra Obscura version of Tom Strong. In
Tom Strong #11, Moore and co-creator
Chris Sprouse more fully introduced the idea of Terra Obscura being a parallel Earth, "but in our own dimension. In our own
galaxy". Tom Strong himself had found it while traveling space alone. He theorizes that the duplicate Earth (and duplicate solar system) "must be due to some near-inconceivable fluke of mathematics, of statistical probability". In this issue, Tom Strange is revealed to have run across the
Milky Way for 30 years to reach Strong for help in stopping an alien menace which killed or imprisoned most of the science-heroes of Terra Obscura. It is judged Strange had set off on his task soon after Tom had left. The stress of leaping from world to world temporarily drives Strange mad. He battles Tom before being subdued and sleeping—dreamlessly—for a fortnight. Once he awakens, he is of a much calmer mind. The two set off back home in Tom's new ship, Tom shows Strange an array of comic books, produced on his earth, which matches the history and events on Strange's Earth. , October 1943 Tom helps Strange revive his surviving allies, most of whom have been trapped in time by the alien menace for the thirty years, unaware and unaging. With the contents of a lab hidden deep in the inverted city of 'Invertica', the assembled superheroes manage to neutralize the alien menace. He is described by Strong as the most powerful being he's ever met, and in a different league from Strong entirely. He operates with the modern incarnation of
SMASH. In 2013, he appeared in limited series
Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril by
Vertigo.
Heroes, inc. Doc Strange appears in the webcomic "Heroes, inc." along with a Golden Age
Captain Future and
Blue Beetle to save Diana Masters (
Miss Masque) from an attack by futuristic soldiers. It's revealed in flashbacks that he is one of the scientists that were part of creating the original
Golden Age heroes of
World War II, under the direction of Archibald Masters (
American Crusader). He developed a chemical called Alosun for the superhero project, but inspired by the heroes that they were creating, he tried it on himself first. ==Powers and abilities==