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Mephisto was co-created by legendary Marvel writer and editor-in-chief Stan Lee and equally-legendary artist John Buscema. They based the character on Mephistopheles, a demon from the legend of Faust. The character is a surrogate of Hell who more or less plays the same role in the various interpretations of the legend, especially in the historic play Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and the later play Faust written by the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.