Wenstrup House

[snurri]

Wenstrup House
Originally uploaded by Snurri.

"Few citizens realize nowadays that the large house at the corner of Boulder and Scott was once the Sanctum Sanctorum of longtime Sorceror Supreme, Walter Wenstrup, the inspiration for the Marvel Comics character Dr. Strange. It seems that artist Steve Ditko had read of Wenstrup's work in Prestidigitation Quarterly and began a correspondence with him . . . . Many of the comic adventures were loosely based on experiences Wenstrup related to Ditko. Their correspondence was truncated by the Banishing, in 1966, and it was about this time that Ditko quit the book. . . . Wenstrup lived for another twelve years, despite periodic assaults on his Sanctorum by various disgruntled sorcerors. He disappeared on May 17, 1978 (also known as the Day of Two Nights; see pages 414-433) while repelling an amphibious assault of unknown nature. After he was declared legally dead the occult authorities combed the premises of his home for some artifact or scrap of knowledge which might restore the city to the contours of the sundered earth. . . . Today the former place of power is home to a waste management consultant and her family. Wenstrup's belongings are housed in the city archives." (p.84)

Comments

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

You do blog some of the coolest shtuff. From Essential Dr. Strange, I take it?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Nah. Just making stuff up right out of my own head. :-)

[lonfiction.livejournal.com]

Hey! That was pretty good. You should, like, write a book or something. ;)

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I wish I was still publishing a magazine so that I could harass you into turning that into a full piece and submit it to me. Fun stuff, man!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I'm going to keep on doing this with my Flickr account; putting up photos with snippets from Prof. Hughfaller's book. So far I'm having fun with it too!

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Yay! How high res are the original photos?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Flickr says this one is 2560 x 1920? Which seems way high, and that version looks a bit grainy on my screen. But the 1024 x 768 size looks good.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

Good. Those would be somewhat printable, albeit small. So if, say, some crazy editor wants to collect them witht he original photos, it'll be possible. I got bit on something like this back in my comics creation days. Had an offer to do a book, but all my work was web rez.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Ah. I wondered if that's where you were going with that. That might be fun, down the road; but for now I'm happy to put these up at a s-l-o-w pace and just play with it.