History
Origins[]
That creature was an Old One, originating, according to Jacob Roark, from the pits of R'lyeh.[2]
Modern days[]
When Doctor Strange weakened the barriers containing the Old Ones, that thing was let loose and harassed Jacob Roark in his cabin where he had retired himself to meditate for five years, and whose greater magical potential had been awakened by the same event, and whose energies was the only thing holding the thing's shape.
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The thing finally breaking into the cabin
When Jacob's daughter came with her family to urge her father to return to civilization, the thing devored both her and her husband, leaving Jacob stranded in the house with his two grandchildren, and the thing pursuing attacks.
Doctor Strange came to Jacob's help, helping him to relinquish his power so that the thing would depart, just as the thing was finally breaching into the cabin and upon killing its inoccupants.[2]Notes
- It is unknown if that Old One was part of the Black Gods of R'Lyeh, themselves Old Ones as well.
- It is hypothesized that both Cthulhu and R'lyeh appeared, unnamed (though the creature was stated to be an Old One), in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #1 (November, 1988),[3] written by Peter Gillis, but the the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe rejects the assertion regarding the entity, and believe it to more likely be the Thing from R'lyeh, also created by Peter Gillis.[4]