Created by writer Bob Layton and artist Jackson Guice, he first appeared as a supporting character in X-Factor #1 (Feb. 1986),[1] The original volume of X-Factor was a spinoff of The Uncanny X-Men featuring an eponymous team composed of the original five members of the X-Men, which was conceived by Hodge, the former college roommate of founding member Warren Worthington, and who served as its public relations agent.

[2][3] Later, under writer Louise Simonson, Hodge was revealed to be secretly acting against X-Factor[4] as the leader of the anti-mutant terrorist organization known as the Right.

He is decapitated in a confrontation with Worthington,[2][5] but his head is later revealed to have been attached to a large robotic body during the 1990 "X-Tinction Agenda".

The book was a spinoff of The Uncanny X-Men featuring an eponymnous team composed of the original five members of the X-Men, which was conceived by Hodge, the former college roommate of founding member Warren Worthington III (aka Angel), and who served as its public relations agent.

After suffering severe injuries during the Mutant Massacre, Angel has his wings amputated, and then seemingly dies in a private jet explosion.

X-Factor later discovered that Hodge had orchestrated Angel's amputation and plane accident and had created holograms simulating the Phoenix Force.

[2][6][7] Hodge and the Genoshan government launched an attack upon the X-Men (which had united with the members of X-Factor), and its junior team, the New Mutants.

[19] When first revealed to be a villain, Cameron Hodge was the commander of The Right, and had access to all the weaponry and resources of the organization, including a ruby quartz battle suit capable of deflecting Cyclops's optic basts.

His spider/scorpionlike robot body was equipped with tentacles, a powerful stinger, plasma and laser weapons, and a molecular adhesive gun, and could also fire bolas, knives and spears of varying sizes.

He also possessed a high degree of invulnerability, enough to protect him from the combined attacks of Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey.