As the character underwent development by later writers, he was featured more prominently as a member of the Secret Six and Suicide Squad anti-hero teams.

The character has been adapted from the comics into various forms of media, including television series, feature films, and video games.

King Shark made his live-action debut in the television series The Flash, voiced by David Hayter while Dan Payne portrayed his human form.

Sylvester Stallone and Ron Funches voice King Shark in The Suicide Squad and Harley Quinn respectively.

King Shark was responsible for a number of missing persons several years before Superboy arrived in Hawaii.

[6] Nanaue was a crazed fighting machine, shredding legions of the Dragons (and killing Sidearm too, when he betrays the team).

After a research team sent to investigate the lair's remains went missing, King Shark was initially suspected, but it turned out to be Black Manta.

King Shark is recruited into Alexander Luthor's Secret Society of Super Villains and is one of the many sent to attack Sub Diego.

His origin has been definitely given as him being the son of the Shark God, due to the new Aquaman book being more magic-based than previous incarnations.

Albeit feigning disrespect, and often disappearing for a while, King Shark accepted, sharing his knowledge of the way of sea with his young savior.

It is later revealed in a flashback sequence that he was asked to do so by his father: The currents of destiny bend and twist around that young man.

And close enough, when I decide the time is ripe... ... to strike, and kill him without warning.The following arc tells the first meeting between the original Aquaman and King Shark, which occurred several years ago.

Following the Final Crisis, King Shark's jaw is broken after being cleaved wide open and later his left arm is ripped off his body during battle, but later grew back.

[11] King Shark is among Superboy's villains brought by Krypto to a hill near the Smallville high school.

His tenure with the Six proves to be short-lived, as the team is soon captured by a large group of superheroes during a failed mission in Gotham City.

King Shark manages to briefly overpower his old foe Superboy during the battle, but is ultimately pummeled into unconsciousness by Supergirl.

[19] Following Aquaman's usurpation of the throne, King Shark returns as a crime lord of the Ninth Tride with plans to expand his empire to more regions of Atlantis.

[22] An alternate reality variant of King Shark appears in the Flashpoint tie-in Deadman and the Flying Graysons.