[2] Attuma appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), portrayed by Alex Livinalli.

Attuma first appeared in Fantastic Four #33 (December 1964), and was created by Stan Lee (writer) and Jack Kirby (artist).

[3] Attuma was born as a member of a tribe of barbaric Atlanteans, who were banished from Atlantis ages ago.

Attuma quickly became leader of his tribe and declared that he would conquer the city of Atlantis as an ancient prophecy predicted.

[4] Attuma was disappointed to learn he had a child who wasn't a boy and was disgusted to find out Lady Gelva was the mother as he saw her as a "bullocked whale".

[7] Attuma was among the villains assembled by Doctor Doom using a mind-control device in one of his attempts to destroy the Fantastic Four.

[8] He created tidal waves in another attempted invasion of the surface world, and was this time defeated by the Avengers, after they were alerted by the kidnap of the Wasp, although Attuma nearly succeeded in drowning them.

[11] Attuma allied with the Red Ghost, and used mind-controlled sea creatures in another attempted conquest of the surface world, and was this time defeated by the Defenders.

[12] With Dr. Dorcas and Tiger Shark, Attuma invaded Hydro-Base, but was then defeated by a teaming of Namor and Doctor Doom.

[15] Namor, with the help of various superheroes including Alpha Flight and the Avengers, freed Marrina and battled Attuma.

[16] He did swear vengeance against the superheroes who had allied against him and joined the Lethal Legion, a group of supervillains, shortly afterwards.

[17] As depicted in the crossover Atlantis Attacks, Attuma allied himself with Ghaur and his Deviants and Llyra and her Lemurians against humanity.

[20] Attuma returned to his barbarian hordes and would make other attempts to conquer Atlantis and the surface world, but without any success.

His armies would pick Canada as their point of invasion; however they would be turned back by the superhero group, the Avengers.

event, Attuma found and unlocked the secrets from the Lost City of Lemuria, using it to attack several places on land.

[29] As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel event, Attuma was on Atlantis at the time when the Squadron Supreme attacked it in retaliation for Namor and the Cabal having destroyed the worlds of some of its members.