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"chasdom", thank you very much for your great comments!

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There Marvel Premiere issues are #3-14.

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Was there also not a #1 of some other title than Premiere, just before that? (Feature?)

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1) Why include Way to Dusty Death if you aren't going to include other Spider-Man/Dr Strange team-ups like Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 or Marvel Team-Up v1 #21?

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A good point. Honestly, it could be bound either way, really, depending on personal preference. The way I'm thinking is, if the team-up is solidly in one character's book (like TASM or MTU which are Spidey's books), then include the story there. If it's a team-up that has title billing split equally between both characters, then I'll include it in the title that has less issues, by the simple virtue of the story being easier to find in 10 Doc volumes than in 50 Spider-Man volumes.

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2) How are you handling Marvel anthologies like What If?, Marvel Fanfare, Over the Edge, and Midnight Sons Unlimited? All of those series have issues that are 100% Dr. Strange. You may want to consider those.

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What If isn't an issue for me personally (though it may be for some, so feel free to fill in on those appearances as well), but as for the rest, I'd love to hear about those anthology issues and consider including them, as long as they're 100% Doc stories instead of guest appearances or the like.

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3) There are some simple inter-series crossovers like Tomb of Dracula v1 #44 and Man-Thing v2 #4 that you might want to include. But then those become more complicated when you get to the era of Infinity Gauntlet and such, so that's a matter of preference.

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I would love to get a list of simple inter-series crossovers. As for the later period stuff - I believe "Rise of the Midnight Sons" and "Siege of Darkness" are the significant ones to consider here - I will include the Doc issues, but not the rest, and make a separate bound volume of the entire crossover. This is the same route I'm going with X-crossovers, where I'm only including the own series issues, and servicing my need to read the whole story with the plentiful TPBs that, say, X-Tinction Agenda has available.

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4) Dr. Strange Annual #2 is part of a 4-part "Return of the Defenders" story, and might be better in a Defenders binding.

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Or, if bound as part of any Defender's own series, it should probably be in Hulk, where the prequel to this ran. Good catch.

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5) I strongly recommend you include Sub Mariner v1 #22, Incredible Hulk v1 #126, and Marvel Feature v1 #1. The gap between Dr. Strange v1 #183 (cancelled in mid-storyline) and Marvel Premiere #3 doesn't make any sense without these issues.

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Ah, Feature #1. That answers the question I had earlier in this post. Yeah, those are definite includes, thanks for reminding me!

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6) The following issues are reprints, although some do have 1 or 2 new pages:

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Can you tell me which ones have new pages? I'm compulsive that way...

I'm working backwards from #81, trying to break down into volumes. Would it be accurate to say that #58-62 (vampires/Darkhold) and #67-74 (Clea/Umar) are unsplittable runs?

#58-81 would be 24 issues, which is pretty thick. Are there any double-sizes or crossovers in there that would make it even thicker? I think it's pretty certain that at least the Umar storyline will need to be in the last volume, and #67-81 would be 15 issues. Is there a good breakpoint between the Darkhold and Umar storylines or do they flow together pretty tightly?

So, anybody want to tackle the crossovers? One with ToD and another with Man-Thing was mentioned already. Any others?

What is a good starting and stopping point for the Creator Chronicles?