It ran for only eight issues between November 1993 and June 1994, although the character later reappeared in DC's Justice Society of America series.

A green door in his house leads to an other-worldly labyrinth to which his father would often go during Louis' childhood to collect strange, alien items.

One of these items was the Scarabaeus, which latched on to Louis in 1941 and transformed him, giving him superpowers which he used to become the superhero Scarab.

Smith's proposal was deemed "too extreme" for an established character and was asked to rework the concept into an original creation, which became Scarab.

Two Indigo Prime agents, Dazzler and Creed, appeared in Scarab #7 & 8 as a way to end the series due to the problems that Smith had encountered with writing it.