[1] As told in a flashback in Justice League Quarterly #3 (Summer 1991), the man who would become Lord Havok was originally one of five terrorists on Angor, an Earth-like world in a parallel universe.

The terrorists had captured an experimental nuclear weapon and threatened to use it against the Justifiers, the primary superhero team on Angor.

In Justice League Europe #15, Lord Havok and the Extremists travel to the main universe and attempt to take over Earth.

In Justice League Europe #18, he and his fellow villains are revealed to be robot duplicates created by theme park owner Mitch Wacky.

Despite another defeat by the Justice League, Havok and now his other soldiers would return one more time, only to be stopped by Power Girl and the Linda Danvers-Supergirl.

Pre-Infinite Crisis, JLI establisher Maxwell Lord died but Kilg%re recreated him as a cyborg in the image of Havok.

In Countdown to Infinite Crisis and subsequent OMAC Project mini-series, an inexplicably wholly human Maxwell Lord took part in a plot to foil earth's heroes.

As he grew, Nikolai developed a talent for designing machines and androids and created a malleable, mentally controlled metallic skin.

When Batman and the JLA arrive to confront the Extremists, they are forced to leave by soldiers acting under orders from the Kravian government who have voted to accept Lord Havok as ruler.