The Pre-Crisis version of the Outsider first appeared as an unseen character in Detective Comics #334 and was created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino.

His attempt at regeneration resulted in a dramatic change: Alfred awoke from his apparent death sporting pasty white skin with circular markings, superhuman powers, including telekinesis, and a desire to destroy Batman and Robin.

This allows Desai to elevate India's status as a world power, turning the country into a multinational criminal operation completely under his control.

The Outsider has also made many enemies; Rising Sun and Mister and Misses Terrific tried to assassinate him after Desai framed them when they revealed some of his illegal activities.

[6] Desai is also engaged in a manhunt to find (and capture) a teenage electricity-based meta-human named Blackout, whom he believes can efficiently power mainland India with his abilities.

[8] In 1979, the Outsider quelled the Bombay riots by manipulating and subsequently killing the crime leaders responsible for the violence, uniting their organizations under his leadership.

In 1996, the Outsider captured Isis in his Siberian Express on Novaya Zemlya in a bid to blackmail Black Adam into selling Desai his home country, Khandaq.

[8] In 1985, the Outsider is revealed to have kept J'onn J'onzz captive in a secret research facility after stealing Doctor Erdel's teleportation device.

Later, the Outsider returns to his base and contacts the heroes to join the assault on New Themyscira[9] and arrives on the scene to attack in the Atlantean-Amazon War.

The Secret Society's origins are first seen in Justice League #6 when Professor Ivo and the "Outsider" meet to discuss the growing superhero community.

[11] The Secret Society is officially uncovered five years later by the Green Arrow (who is injured while trying to infiltrate the organization under the name Dark Hunter).

During the Justice League's battle with Darkseid, the barriers between universes was weakened which allowed him and another individual to escape their world, but his master did not make it.

It is revealed that the Outsider is actually from Earth-3 and is that world's version of Alfred Pennyworth who works as the butler to Owlman as he and his fellow Crime Syndicate members Ultraman, Superwoman, Power Ring, Johnny Quick, and Deathstorm arrive while Sea King didn't survive the trip.

He then reveals to her that the Seven Deadly Sins, supposedly released when she touched the box, would have appeared on Prime Earth no matter what, meaning the Council of Eternity cursed her for no reason.