His body, however, was stolen by the evil Proxima and her alien warrior women and taken to the planet Rur, where he was revived even more powerful than he was before so he could be used as a weapon against their enemies, the Krotons.
Escaping with the aid of the stellar-powered scientist Stardust, he returned to Earth only to find that thirty years had passed and that, stricken with amnesia, he no longer had any memory of who he was behind his mask.
[2] Hiring a private detective to dig into his past, he turned his attention to the more important matters at hand and helped found the Sentinels of Justice with Stardust, Nightveil, Commando D and the Scarlet Scorpion in Captain Paragon and Sentinels of Justice #1 to battle super-villains and alien invasions.
However, on the legal advice of his friend and publishing mentor, Martin L. Greim, he decided that rather than risk copyright trouble with Fawcett Publications it was best to destroy the entire print run, except for two copies he saved for his files.
[5] The name of Paragon's original secret identity is a tribute to cowboy star Charles Starrett who played the Durango Kid.