Having persuaded IPC management to allow him to revive Eagle, boys adventure group editor Barrie Tomlinson settled on photo strips to make the comic stand out.

Tomlinson and Eagle editor Dave Hunt found the costume for the character after scouring London's theatrical and fancy dress shops.,[2] At the time, Grant and Wagner contributed so many scripts to IPC titles that managing director John Sanders requested they use pseudonyms to disguise some of their work, choosing 'Grant Grover' for "Doomlord".

And you can see the logic in his conclusions – mankind is polluting Earth to death, we're slaughtering each other with ever bigger bombs, we're on the threshold of space travel with ships bearing nukes.

[2] The strip was now unrestricted by budget or special effects constraints – the first page shows Vek warping into a bird and observing a road crash from aloft.

Grant later used the character's scenes with the Sousters to create a softer side he described as "surreal" and part of "his Coronation Street-type soap opera existence".

[7][8] Journalist Howard Harvey and policeman friend Bob Murton witness an apparent meteor falling into local woods; it in fact a spaceship bringing a sinister robed alien to Earth - Doomlord, the self-proclaimed servant of Nox, master of life and bringer of death.

Doomlord manipulates Harvey into a trap, and explains his "dread mission" as a "Servant of Nox" – he is to be judge, jury, and executioner on humanity's right to exist, using the identities of members of society's elite as stepping stones to gather evidence.

If Doomlord judges humanity as unfit or to pose a potential risk to the interstellar community, he will destroy it – the billions of deaths being inconsequential, as "The fate of the individual is unimportant when the survival of the species is at stake."

He hypnotises Harvey to accompany him to a germ warfare establishment to watch helplessly as Doomlord constructs a virus to kill humans worldwide.

Vek petitions the Council for a review of Zyn's judgement; they give him one year to secretly influence humanity for the better, with execution to be carried out if he does not succeed.

Vek hypnotises the wealthy to place funds in an environmental pressure group called Alternative Earth and increases political activity amongst the general public.

Due to the fondness of mankind that he has developed Vek disobeys, revealing his existence to humankind and taking an open stance in his attempts to manipulate humanity, pointing out the sentence of death hanging over it if it does not reform.

Eventually, Vek is tranquillised whilst in human form and is kept imprisoned underground; as he requires ultraviolet light for sustenance, he starves and his corpse is triumphantly paraded as a trophy.

Vek appears on global television and explains the Noxian ethical code and the Deathlords, pointing out that now he is all that stands between humanity and execution, and how he had rebelled against Nox to protect them.

[13] As protector of Earth, Vek repels the Gemini Plague, genetically engineered parasitic insects used by the robotic Populators of Pollux to wipe out a planet's higher lifeforms in advance for use as a breeding ground[14][15] He also hosts "The Doomlord Show", where he would kidnap various public figures, connect them to an electrified lie detector to reveal criminal or unethical behaviour, punish criminals with political connections who could avoid conventional justice, and even respond to phoned-in personal grievances, as he can teleport directly there and employ intimidation.

[18] Vek decides to become a father to further his understanding of humans, particularly the emotion of love, so uses his bioengineering knowledge to artificially produce and rapidly grow a human-Noxian hybrid called Enok.

[19][20][21] Vek receives a Noxian lodestone to recover from a serious illness after a passionate plea by Douglas Reeve; the Sousters become aware at this point that they have Doomlord living under their roof, although the hypnotic block remains, so they still "see" Eric Plumrose.

Upon their return, Vek, Pete and Mike find themselves in a parallel timeline, accidentally landing on an alternative Earth where his renegade son Enok has escaped his asteroid prison and enslaved the whole planet.

[24][25][26] Vek also fights S.M.O.G., a terrorist organisation[d][27] He has to undergo a psychological ordeal in the mystical Realms of Death to ensure his dedication to the Cold Blue Flame of Noxian justice.

Vek has been given a new energiser ring which allows him to both animate objects (such as getting a chimney to fight for him) and travel through time, resulting in him destroying the advanced prehistoric civilisation of Atlantis.