Shuma-Gorath

Shuma-Gorath is a fictional character created by Robert E. Howard, best known for his later interpretations starting with Steve Englehart, as a demonic enemy of Doctor Strange in Marvel Comics publications. He is also well known for being an unconventional playable character in the Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom video games. Shuma-Gorath shares naming conventions and physical traits to creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos, the universe in which popular weird fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft set the majority of his stories. The name "Shuma-Gorath" is first used in the Kull short story "The Curse of the Golden Skull," which was unpublished until 1967, years after the author's death. In it, a dying magician named Rotath invokes the...