Looking to the future, you might think that this approach could change with new stories — having sequels find ideas from other eras — but if it’s up to Derrickson, this won’t be the case.
As director Scott Derrickson regularly pointed out prior to the film’s release, Doctor Strange had a very specific influence in the road to its creation.
While Marvel has been publishing Doctor Strange comics for decades, it was the initial issues by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko that primarily inspired both the look and the narrative when it came to the blockbuster.
He believes not only that the greatest material was the work done in the 1960s, but also that the best later examples of Strange stories in Marvel Comics were successful because of how they also themselves expanded on early ideas.