Ghaszaszh Nyirh

A creature of darkness lurking at the edges of Marvel's mystical underworld, Ghaszaszh Nyirh made its unsettling debut in Strange Tales #9 in 1987, brought to life by the skilled hands of Terry Austin and Bret Blevins during comics' Copper Age. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a rare, esoteric presence — the kind of shadowy entity that serious Marvel horror enthusiasts love to unearth — sharing its eerie pages with the likes of Kaluu, Cloak, and the luminous Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson. Brief in its publishing life but genuinely distinctive, Ghaszaszh Nyirh is exactly the sort of deep-cut discovery that reminds collectors why Strange Tales was such a gloriously weird corner of the Marvel universe.