The school first appears in Strange Academy #1 (March 2020) and was created by writer Skottie Young and artist Humberto Ramos.

Having just visited New Orleans, Young found the city the ideal setting for the folklore and magic of the series.

Chapter 13: Calvin start losing his abilities after losing his jacket, meanwhile Emily release The Imperator not from his physical prison but from his own mind.The group decided to out on Friday night, they end up in the graveyard where they found Marie Laveau, and tells her story, when she was young all the members of her family have many magical abilities but she did not compete to them, she decided to go to "Gaslamp" to receive a wish, and she was able to perform her works but the wishes did not last to long and she could not keep paying the wishes and died, her mother put an x to Maria Laveau's grave and wished to return to life and she did it, but her form was as a zombie, to resolved her mother used magic to make her look as a normal human.

Meanwhile Dr. Voodoo is giving time travel classes and how to see past future and other timelines, and the danger of changing them due to the effects of it.Doyle see himself in the future as a powerful person destroying the rest of strange academy classmates and decides to leave the school leaving a not in his room.

Chapter 16: Dr. Voodoo is told that the death of the Sorcerer Supreme brought a fracture on the Mystical Balance and that the school is going to ration magic use to be used only during classes.

Chapter 18: Strange academy teachers decide to go to the Sanctum Sanctorum and talk with Emily and the students.