[1] Orion originally appeared in New Gods #1 (February–March 1971)[2] which was part of Jack Kirby's Fourth World titles published in the early 1970s.

When the titles were canceled, Orion and his fellow New Gods characters were unseen until DC returned to the Fourth World concept a few years later.

[7] The New Gods title was again canceled in 1978 but the story was wrapped up in two issues of Adventure Comics featuring a "final battle" between Orion and his father, Darkseid.

Orion was a series penciled and written by Walt Simonson, centered around the eponymous character[16] and which ran for 25 issues (June 2000–June 2002).

Simonson invited fellow artists and writers to provide a short story often supplementing the issue's main action.

Raised as Highfather's son, Orion was taught to control and focus his rage, and grew to value his adoptive home and its ideals.

However, on top of his adoptive parent's care, his friends among the New Gods, particularly Lightray, helped him channel his Dark Side toward the protection of New Genesis.

His fighting skill, stamina, relentlessness, and ruthlessness have earned him the nickname "The Dog of War", who still occasionally needs the aid of his Mother Box to help control his emotions when they threaten to get the better of him.

Orion counts among his closest friends Lightray, Metron, Jezebelle, Scott Free, Big Barda, and Forager.

[20] During his time in the League, Orion helped to defeat Starro when its actions put almost the entirety of North America to sleep and aided Green Lantern, Steel, Plastic Man, and Barda in capturing a White Martian that had regained its original memory.

On one occasion, Orion and other Leaguers were abducted by the temporarily insane Adam Strange as part of a plot to defeat a telepathic race.

Orion and Barda's central mission was to help mobilize Earth's heroes against the coming of the omnipotent, Old God tech-cosmic weapon known as Mageddon.

Orion gave his Mother Box to Oracle for safe-keeping while he confronted Mageddon at full ferocity; channeling his inherited fury from Darkseid.

Oracle used it to set up a telepathic, online network that could coordinate Earth's defending heroes as they fought to stop wars that Mageddon's mind controlling presence was inciting.

Using the super-villain Libra, Darkseid unleashes the Anti-Life Equation onto humanity and in the process, drags Earth outside time and space, threatening the multiverse.

The bullet killed Orion, who by this point had realized that his father and his fellow evil New Gods still lived and were now possessing human beings as host bodies.

Orion also appears in the Justice League Odyssey series, rescuing the Green Lantern Jessica Cruz after Darkseid kills her.

The "Astro-Harness" is an alien artifact of unknown origin, capable of self-repair; flight at light speed;[25] interstellar teleportation;[24] energy projection and absorption; force field generation; and possesses a tractor beam.

An alternate universe incarnation of Orion appears in flashbacks depicted in Justice League: Gods and Monsters, voiced by Josh Keaton.

[28] This version grew up as royalty on Apokolips and was to be married to Bekka of New Genesis as part of a peace treaty between their planets.