Universe
Ultraverse Earth-93060

Real Name
Unrevealed

Aliases
Dark Lord, Prince of the Void, Prince of Blood

Identity
Secret

Citizenship
Unrevealed

Place of Birth
Unrevealed

First Appearance
Sludge #3 (1993)

In the countless millennium before the dawn of mankind upon the planet Earth, there raged among the stars an imperious warlord, with an insatiable lust for carnage. He destroyed entire races and cultures among the galaxies. With his victims numbering in the billions. He came to be known by many names among the thousands of empires he had conquered.

Prince of Blood: his savagery in battle was but a prelude to his hedonistic rituals of eviscerating many of his victims and gorging on their flesh.

Prince of the Void: so called for the utter desolation left in his wake; relentlessly razing entire cities to smoldering husks.

The Dark Lord: finally defeated in a spectacular battle that raged for five hundred years, the bloodied prince fled to earth, a planet still in its infancy. It was there among the burgeoning clans and tribes of early man was worshiped as a God. He remained here in hiding from his galactic enemies and in need of life sustaining energy he fell victim to the withering power of the hydrogen bomb. Riddled with disease the once conqueror of the stars themselves struggled to defeat the plague that consumed his body. We came to know him as Rune.