Appearing in "The Spawn of Sligguth!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Wong
- Ethan Stoddard (First appearance)
- Ancient One (Yao)
Antagonists:
- Spawn of Sligguth
- Serpent Men of Starkesboro (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Marquis de Rais (Referenced)
- Nightmare (Referenced)
- Bethel Doan (First appearance)
- Hotel clerk (First appearance)
- Lemuel Joad (First appearance)
- Starkesboro librarian (First appearance)
- Faltine (Invoked)
- Ikonn (Invoked)
- Dormammu (Mentioned)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Oshtur (Invoked)
- Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Puritans (Mentioned)
- Caleb Starke (Mentioned)
- Agamotto the All-Seeing (Invoked)
- Von Juntz (Mentioned)
- Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Seraphim (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Serpent Men of Starkesboro (First appearance)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New England
- Massachusetts
- Salem State College (Mentioned)
- Quabbin Reservoir (Mentioned)
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- England (Mentioned)
- Himalayas (Mentioned)
- Valusia (Mentioned)
- United States of America
Items:
- Thanatosian Tomes (Mentioned)
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Iris of the All-Seeing Oracle
- Thanatosian Tomes
- Black Sea Scrolls (Mentioned)
- Unausprechlichen Kulten (Mentioned)
- Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth
- Flames of the Faltine (Invoked)
- Shades of the Seraphim (Invoked)
- Rings of Raggadorr (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- Bus
Synopsis for "The Spawn of Sligguth!"
Dr. Strange is visited by a man named Ethan Stoddard who has come seeking Dr. Strange's help. He explains that his fiance Bethel Doan studied the occult, however, while she continued her studies in her hometown of Starkesboro to study the Thanatosian Tomes.
Traveling to Starkesboro with Ethan, Dr. Strange soon finds that the people of this town are becoming reptilian, and that they worship the creature known as Sligguth. When Stoddard learns that his fiancé had suffered the same fate, he rushes to Strange who is investigating the shrine to Sligguth. There the two are attacked by the townspeople, when suddenly Stoddard changes into one of them as well. Stoddard tells Strange that he was used to lure Strange to town. During Stoddard's surprise attack, Strange is knocked out, however when he comes too, he finds that he is to be thrown into the labyrenth under the church as sacrifice to Sligguth.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- Features concepts created by Robert E. Howard.
- Plot by Thomas, script by Goodwin.
- Pencils (story pages): Smith pages 1-3 and layouts pages 4-20, Brunner finished pencils pages 4-20.[1]
- This issue includes a mention to the "Black Sea Scrolls", probably Earth-616's version of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also mentions "Von Juntz's Unausprechlichen Kulten", a reference to the fictional book Unaussprechlichen Kulten by the fictional writer Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt, created by Robert E. Howard (who is credited in this issue as "featuring concepts created by") and later mentioned in H.P. Lovecraft's stories.