KOTH-SHUGOTHKOTH-SHUGOTH
Real Name: Koth-Shogoth
Class: God (Elder Gods)
Occupation: God
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: an unnamed dimension
First Appearance: Spectre Annual II #1 (1995)
Powers: Koth-Shugoth was an immortal and immensely powerful god, appearing as a mass of tentacles and eyeballs.
History: (Spectre Annual II #1 (fb)) - Koth-Shugoth, sometimes called the Creeping Abyss, and his fellow Elder Gods spread their malevolent influence over Earth until they were banished to another dimension by God. Millennia later the U.S. government was in an occult arms race with Hitler’s Germany. Hitler was seeking the Spear of Destiny and the Ark of the covenant. The U.S. had sent an archaeologist to get to the Ark first, and built the Pentagon as part of a top-secret program codenamed the Nightmare Codex to harness the power of the Elder Gods. Occultist Micah Cole was recruited to open the gateway to summon an Elder God, and the magic was fueled by the souls of murderers executed in the electric chair. Micah, who was a discipline of the Elder Gods, killed an innocent man to bend the Elder God to his own designs. Dr. Fate and the Spectre tumbled onto his plans, and informed the military, but were too late to keep Micah from opening a gateway and summoning Koth-Shugoth. Micah was sure his master would keep him safe, but Spectre killed him, turning him into a dusty skeleton. Fate and Spectre combined their magic to keep Koth-Shugoth from fully emerging from a dimensional gateway, and Spectre Koth-Shugoth inside the gate, finding himself in the dimension God had exiled the Elder Gods to. He felt insignificant and powerless before Koth-Shugoth, but the Spectre-Force that acted as the vengeance of God took over, telling Koth-Shugoth he’d make an example of him for daring to cross the boundaries in which God permitted him to exist. Spectre returned to the Pentagon, assuring Fate that Koth-Shugoth would nevermore trouble mankind.
Comments: Created by John Ostrander & Pat Olliffe.
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