The Faceless Hunters made three appearances in DC Comics flagship science fiction anthology title, all written by Gardner Fox - Strange Adventures, in issues #124 (January 1961) with artists Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson, #142 (July 1962) with art by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson, and #153 (June 1963), with art by Gil Kane and Sid Greene.

The Faceless Hunters first come to public attention in 1961 after one of them, Klee Pan, attempts to steal major world sculptures such as the Mount Rushmore heads and the Easter Island statues.

Oregon police officers Bob Colby and Jim Boone confront Pan, who explains that he comes from Klaramar, a microscopic world on the planet Saturn, and seeks an ancient stone face to stop it from exploding.

He reveals that an evil Faceless Hunter, Chun Yull,[1] threatens to destroy Earth with a time bomb unless he is made its supreme ruler.

[3][4] Chun Yull later allies with the Enchantress and forms a criminal organization known as the Forgotten Villains alongside Yggardis the Living Planet, Atom Master, Kraklow the Mystic, Vandal Savage, Mister Poseidon, and Ultivac.