Appearing in "The Spawn of Sligguth!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Wong
- Ethan Stoddard (First appearance)
- Ancient One (Yao)
Antagonists:
- Serpent Men of Starkesboro (First appearance)
- Sligguth (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
- Marquis de Rais (Referenced)
- Nightmare (Referenced)
- Bethel Doan (First appearance)
- Lemuel Joad (First appearance)
- Dormammu (Mentioned)
- Puritans (Mentioned)
- Caleb Starke (Mentioned)
- Von Junzt (Mentioned)
Deities and Invocations:
- Faltine (Invoked)
- Ikonn (Invoked)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Oshtur (Invoked)
- Agamotto the All-Seeing (Invoked)
- Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Seraphim (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Faltine (Invoked)
- Serpent-Folk
- Dark Gods (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New England
- Massachusetts
- Quabbin Reservoir (Mentioned)
- Salem (Mentioned)
- Salem State College (Mentioned)
- Boston (Referenced)
- Starkesboro (First appearance)
- Massachusetts
- England (Mentioned)
- Himalayas (Mentioned)
- Valusia (Mentioned)
- United States of America
Items:
- Thanatosian Tomes (First appearance)
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Iris of the All-Seeing Oracle
- Black Sea Scrolls (Mentioned)
- Nameless Cults (Mentioned)
- Spells
- Flames of the Faltine (Invoked)
- Images of Ikonn (Invoked)
- Rings of Raggadorr (Invoked)
- Shades of the Seraphim (Invoked)
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
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 labyrinth under the church as sacrifice to Sligguth.
Solicit Synopsis
Notes
- Features concepts created by Robert E. Howard, including Von Junzt's Nameless Cults, or the "serpent breed".
- 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]