Cosmic Tourism for the Morbidly Curious: A Field Guide to Earth-616

“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask.”

― Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow



One day a girl gets born with a yellow sign on the back of her hand. Or how The King in Yellow took offense to a certain The King in Black and remade her story to take place on Marvel Earth-616.