OVERLORD

Real Name: Rakkhal

Identity/Class: Extratemporal (Earth-6966) extraterrestrial (Dakkamite) mutant

Occupation: Ruler of Reality-6966's 46th century's universe

Group Membership: His own empire

Affiliations: His slaves and Emissaries

Enemies: The Silver Surfer, pretty much all life.
    Galactus of Earth-7888

Known Relatives:Ralgand (father, deceased), Zarakel (mother, deceased)

Aliases: The Ultimate conqueror, Master of the universe

Base of Operations: An unidentified planet in a far away galaxy;
    formerly Dakkam, Reality-6966
    Earth-Moebius (see comments)

First Appearance: Silver Surfer I#6 (June, 1969)

Powers/Abilities: The Overlord is a mutant who claims that no army or weapon ever created can slay him. He seemed to back it up considering he conquered the universe, and killed everything in it except his slaves. He destroyed advanced races like that on Zenna-La, and planets like Earth that have super-powered heroes. He displayed phenomenal strength, firing powerful energy blasts, as well as shrugging off blasts from the Silver Surfer.

Height: 25'
Weight: 8 tons
Eyes: White; no irises
Hair: Black

History:  (Silver Surfer I#6 (fb)) - The Overlord's father was a chief of research at an atomic testing center sometime in the 45th Century on the planet Dakkam. There was a terrible accident due to his inexperience with "old-time atomics." He survived, but his son was born a horribly ugly mutant. The child grew rapidly and gained super strength as well. By the time he reached maturity, he was a giant. Through unspecified circumstances, his parents died, and without them to keep him in check, the giant went rampaging. The people of his planet wanted to exile him into space, but when they tried, he destroyed his whole planet in a matter of hours. He then set out to conquer the universe.

(Silver Surfer I#6)- The Surfer gets an idea  from the notes of his friend, Al Harper, who died disarming the Stranger's Null-Life Bomb, on how to escape the barrier that Galactus had placed around Earth to trap Surfer on Earth. He figures that if he goes faster than the speed of light he would travel foreword in time to a time where perhaps there was no barrier. He succeeded, but found Earth in ruins. He then flies off to his world of Zenna-la, but finds it is also destroyed. He searches countless worlds, but finds that there is no life in the universe in this time.

    Then, he finds one world that has life on it. He finds ape like savages, who decide to capture the Surfer for the Overlord. Seeing no reason to live, he allows himself to be captured by some soldiers and is taken before a giant monstrous humanoid. He introduces himself as the Overlord and tells Surfer of how he destroyed all life in the Universe. The Surfer attacks the Overlord, but when a guard tries to defend his master, the Overlord kills him with an energy blast, wanting the Surfer for himself. Overlord then has his slaves bring him giant food and drink, and then watches as the slaves fight over the scraps. the Surfer is about to attack again, but he sees a dancer that looks like his love, Shalla Bal. He flies to rescue her, but she is also killed by the Overlord. The Overlord then knocks out the Surfer from behind while Surfer was trying to save some dancers from a collapsing wall. The Surfer is taken to have his life energy power the machinery of the Overlord's complex, but is rescued by the last survivor of Zenna-La, who tells him of the Overlord's origin. When he is done, some guards burst in and kill the last survivor of Zenna-La.

    The Surfer dashed out and flew past the speed of light in the other direction, going back in time to before the nuclear explosion responsible for the Overlord's mutation and preventing the accident from happening, diverging the Overlord's timeline (Reality-6966) from Reality-54531, where Rakkhal was born a normal child.

    In this diverged timeline, the Overlord was never a mutant.  The Surfer then went back to his own time and iwas once more trapped within Earth's barrier.

("The Silver Surfer: The Lost Adventure"/Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook) - Overlord conquered the Earth-7888 reality, but was again defeated by Earth-616's Silver Surfer.

Follow the link for the full story: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/earthmoeb01.htm#Fourth

Comments: Created by Stan Lee, John Buscema, and Sal Buscema.

    The Overlord and his parents received real names in his entry in OHOTMU A-Z HC#8.

    Keep in mind that this is a comic from the late 60's, but geez, this is plot hole city. First of all, how did the Surfer know when the explosion creating the Overlord happened? How did he know the location of the planet? When he went into his own time, he didn't need to go back inside the barrier around Earth, he could have just as easily gone to Zenna-La. And I'm not even going to get into how when he changed directions he changed which way he traveled through time.

Yeah, there wee plot holes, but this is still my favorite Silver Surfer story of the batch. The Overlord kicked @$$!

Overlord has an entry in Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook.

PROFILE BY GABRIEL SHECHTER (Stunner)

CLARIFICATIONS: 
The Overlord of Dakkam has no connection with:

 

The Overlord's parents

The Overlord's father Ralgand was a chief of research at an atomic testing center on the planet Dakkam sometime in or slightly before the 45th century of Reality-6966.

There was a terrible accident due to his inexperience with "old-time atomics." He survived, but his son was born a horribly ugly mutant. The child grew rapidly and gained super strength as well. By the time he reached maturity, he was a giant. Through unspecified circumstances, his parents died, and without them to keep him in check, the giant went rampaging.

--Silver Surfer I#6 (6(fb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appearances:
Silver Surfer I#6 (June, 1969) - Stan Lee (writer/editor), John Buscema (pencils), Sal Buscema (inks)
Silver Surfer: The Lost Adventure (unpublished) - Jean-Marc Lofficier (writer), J.O. Ladronn (artist)
Marvel Legacy: The 1960s Handbook (2006)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z HC#8

First Posted: 02/09/2003
Last updated: 01/19/2021

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