The Shadow King is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and illustrator/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #117 (January 1979). An unnamed mutant, the Shadow King possesses vast telepathic powers. He became a crime lord under the name Amahl Farouk in Cairo, Egypt, leading a street gang that included a young Storm. Future X-Men founder Charles Xavier encountered Farouk and the two engaged in a psychic battle that trapped Farouk out of his body. The Shadow King is a disembodied persona on the astral plane, where he can take possession of the bodies of others and battle other telepaths in astral form. Fictional character biography One of the Shadow King's defining moments in the Marvel Universe began with his psychic battle with Charles Xavier (Professor X), a battle that left Farouk physically dead and released his psychic essence upon the astr

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