The Vanisher first appeared in The X-Men #2 (November 1963), created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

Born in Milton, Massachusetts, the Vanisher is a mutant and a professional criminal with the ability to teleport to any place imaginable.

He commits a series of spectacular crimes including: building a large criminal organization, stealing confidential defense plans and attempting to extort millions of dollars from the U.S.

[2] With support from a large group of non-mutant followers, he goes to the front lawn of the White House to await his payment.

[3] The Vanisher regains his memory and joins Factor Three, a subversive organization of mutants who seek world domination.

The Mutant Master, leader of Factor Three, is revealed to be an alien of the Siris race with a plan to conquer Earth.

[5] The Vanisher disappears for a period, but comes out of hiding to fight the Champions by joining the Brotherhood of Mutants and using reprogrammed Sentinels.

Along with Eel and a woman named Blitz, the Vanisher is part of the Outer Circle of the Enforcers that becomes involved in a clash between the criminal organizations A.I.M.

In a confrontation with X-Force, the Vanisher is injured and given a terminal brain tumor by Elixir, in order to secure his co-operation in retrieving the virus.

[14] He transports the team to one of the bases, only to be attacked by clones of the Marauders and soldiers of The Right, under command of the resurrected Cameron Hodge.

[15] When the Sapien League starts abducting mutants and infecting them with a modified version of the Legacy Virus, the Vanisher teams with Warpath.

While at an anti-mutant rally, he tries to get Warpath to leave with him, offering to take him to a brothel in Portugal only to be told to be ready in case anything bad happened.

[27] Upon Cable and Hope Summers return to the present, Cyclops orders Domino and the Vanisher to wait in San Francisco.

[28] Learning that Bastion was targeting teleporters to prevent the reunion of the so-called "Mutant Messiah" with the X-Men, Cyclops gives Domino instructions to bring the Vanisher back to Utopia.

Hearing this, the Vanisher teleports to his hideout in Portugal only to find his girls dead and Steven Lang and his men awaiting him.

[33] Vanisher later joins the Hellfire club with Emma Frost as its Black King, but is killed by Robert Callahan.

[volume & issue needed] The Vanisher is a mutant that possesses the ability to teleport himself, his clothes, and an undetermined amount of additional mass.

The Vanisher has a subconscious extrasensory ability that prevents him from materializing part or all of his body within a solid object, even if he has never before been to the area he is teleporting to.

[35] In the "House of M" reality, the Vanisher works with Pyro under the authority of Exodus as part of the mutant supremacist rulership of Australia.