He was hired by the Great Manga Khan to destroy his foes, the Justice League, as they flew around space, but after Barda realizes who he is (and that she can’t beat him), she teleports him to Earth where his contract gets dropped by Khan. There, like most other characters in that comic, Lobo would get into a fistfight with Guy Gardner. That was it for Lobo for a few years, until Giffen brought him back in the pages of the beloved Justice League International with J.M. But when he returns, we see the natural progression from bit character to beloved supporting character to universal big deal. And he doesn’t come back, besides a couple of mentions here and there. His partner is an empty suit (and dead by the next issue). There isn’t really much more to recommend him at this point: his costume is bland and very early ‘80s. He’s an exremely effective murderer with crappy mime face paint who’s an absolute pig to women.

Original Lobo is basically Gene Simmons, only if Simmons’ ego was backed up by actual competence. He’s paired with another bounty hunter named Bedlam as the two try and break into the Omega Men’s ship so they can bust down the shield of the planet Euphorix on behalf of the Citadel. His original background was massively different from what it would eventually become, but the hyper-competent, amoral bounty hunter element was there from the start. He’s an unstoppable intergalactic bounty hunter, originally introduced by Roger Silfer, Keith Giffen, and Mike DeCarlo in the pages of Omega Men #3 back in 1983.

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