He spent years traveling the world as a soldier of fortune, working as an intelligence agent and bouncer, before becoming a professional adventurer and joining Alpha Flight.
[volume & issue needed] He also formed a friendship with noted author Ernest Hemingway and became an accomplished bullfighter.
"[volume & issue needed] Some details of his past remain unknown, hinted at in dialogue: the affair of the Brass Bishop, and some murders.
[6] Puck was seriously wounded by teammate Marrina, made temporarily bestial under a summoning call sent by the Master of the World and hospitalized.
Later, the group discovered that the powers came at a price too high to bear, such as the loss of all creativity among all affected and the deaths of all mystics.
This turns out to be the trickster god Loki, who was eventually persuaded to remove all effects of the well, which unfortunately included Puck's new height.
[17] When Northstar and Aurora both fell deathly ill (him physically and her mentally), Alpha Flight took them to the site of the Firefountain that Loki previously used to grant powers and wishes.
Shaman injects Puck with a serum derived from his own blood and the mutative properties of a formula created by the Master.
He was paired up with the affected Spider-Man when an invasion force of free-minded superheroes plan to attack the Goddess' fortress.
[24] Puck tells Wolverine to fight through the pain he feels while being tortured, implying that it will make the devil look weak and cause an uprising in hell, thus giving them a chance to escape.
[25] After the Devil is beaten, Puck attempts to escape along with Wolverine, but falls from the walls of hell which he was scaling when another condemned one grabs his foot and yanks him off and back into the pit.
[26] During the Fear Itself storyline, Puck was shown to have escaped from Hell when he arrives to rescue Guardian from Vindicator (who betrayed the team to Gary Cody and his newly elected Unity Party, later revealed to be under the control of the Master of the World) and stated that he had escaped from Hell after his fight with Ba'al.
[27] It has been announced that Puck will be a member of the relaunched Uncanny X-Force team alongside Storm, Psylocke and Spiral.
[30] As part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel event, Puck appears as a member of the Alpha Flight space program.
[31] Zuzha Yu was a mutant who worked at a bar near McGill University in Montreal and was supposedly the daughter of the original Puck.
She agreed to join the reformed Alpha Flight after losing an arm-wrestling match with Walter Langkowski, alias Sasquatch.
He was a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, capable of a mixture of various martial arts, street-fighting techniques, acrobatics and gymnastics.
He has some knowledge of mysticism, enough to once trap Black Raazer, and the ability to put himself in a temporary deathlike trance state.
[volume & issue needed] In the Marvel Zombies comics set in the universe of Earth-2149 the zombified Alpha Flight attack the X-Men and are eventually killed by Magneto.