Faraday first appeared in Danger Trail #1 (August 1950), and was created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.

An ex-soldier, he takes a position as a counter-espionage agent for the U.S. government and engages in a variety of standard spy-type capers.

Faraday possesses no superhuman abilities but is a trained espionage agent and an expert hand-to-hand fighter and marksman.

King Faraday appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

This version is an agent of Checkmate who bonded with a captive White Martian named Megan, treating her as a daughter.