Appearing in "Finally, Shuma-Gorath!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Ancient One (Apparent death/Ascension)
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Shuma Gorath ⏵ (First full appearance)
- Living Buddha (Death)
- Shadowmen of Kaa-U (Death)
Other Characters:
- Kathulos (Referenced)
- Monster (Unnamed) (Illusion or holographic simulation) (Only in flashback)
- Wong (Cameo)
- Clea (Cameo)
- Vishanti (Invoked)
- Agamotto (Mentioned)
- Eternity (Mentioned)
- Dormammu (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Nightmare (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Dreamstalker (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Baron Mordo (Cameo)
- Victoria Bentley (Cameo)
- Faltine (Mentioned)
- Valtorr (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Old Ones
- Faltine Hybrids
- Faltine (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Shadowmen of Kaa-U
- Demons (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Dark Spectral Horses (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Spiders
Locations:
- Earthspace (Main story and flashback)
- Earth
- Kaa-U (Destruction)
- The Crypts of Kaa-U
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- 34th Street (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Stephen Strange's Mansion
- Manhattan
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Europe
- Kaa-U (Destruction)
- Kathulos (Planet) (Only in flashback)
- Earth
- Shuma-Gorath's Realm (Mentioned)
Items:
- Cloak of Levitation
- Eye of Agamotto
- Flames of Regency (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Spells
- Hosts of Hoggoth (Invoked)
- Flames of the Faltine (Mentioned)
- Vipers of Valtorr (Invoked)
Synopsis for "Finally, Shuma-Gorath!"
With Shuma-Gorath using the Ancient One's mind as a portal to Earth's dimension, Dr. Strange is the only force standing in the demon's way. Traveling into the Ancient One's mind, and battling Shuma-Gorath's defenses (including a conjuration of Dormammu from the Ancient One's memories) Strange finally battles his way into Gorath's realm.
There, Strange battles the creature, but then realizes that the only way to stop Shuma-Gorath is to kill his own master. Slaying the Ancient One with a mystic bolt, the Ancient One is killed sealing the portal for Shuma-Gorath, and causing the city of Kaa-U to crumble. Grieving over his master's death, the Ancient One appears around him telling Strange that he is now one with the universe, and now Strange will fill his position as Sorcerer Supreme.
Notes
- Cover art: pencils and inks by Brunner, colours by Wein.[1]
- Plot by Englehart and Brunner, script by Englehart.
- Inks are credited only to the Crusty Bunkers.
- "Finally, Shuma-Gorath!" is reprinted in Marvel Treasury Edition #6.