History: Faraday was an exceptional soldier recruited by the CBI to become an "agent without passport," a black op operating completely by himself. Faraday's firm beliefs on what was good for the U.S. sometimes brought him to moral gray areas, and into conflict with the Batman.

(Batman I #313, 314) - Two-Face and his gang stole the  latest binary codes for the U.S. missile defense system, but his henchman Specs felt guilty for betraying his country and hid the codes in a manila envelope. He called the GCPD to confess, but Two-Face executed him before he could reveal where the codes were. The government put King Faraday on the case, and he started surveilling Two-Face’s hideout. Batman discovered the hideout, forcing Faraday to go into action. Two-Face activated a steel door that divided his hideout in half and escaped. King Faraday didn’t want him getting in his way, but Batman said he had a duty to Two-Face, he’d promised himself to honor the memory of crusading attorney Harvey Dent by never allowing him to hurt anyone else ever again. Batman worked out that Specs had hidden the codes inside a giant piggybank used as a prop for the Gotham Children’s Telethon. Two-Face and his gang posed as security guards loading up the telethon donations from the piggybank into an armored truck and raced off. Batman and Faraday pursued them in the Batmobile, with Batman causing them to crash by blowing out the armored truck’s tires with a laser beam. Two-Face fled with the codes up a fire escape, and Faraday aimed his pistol at him. Batman grabbed his arm, ruining his shot. Batman said Two-Face was mentally ill, and he couldn’t allow Faraday to murder him. Faraday reminded Batman that national security was at stake, and warned Batman to stay out of his way while he dealt with Two-Face as he saw fit. Batman and King Faraday independently did information gathering and learned that Two-Face was in New Orleans. Two-Face was hiding out at the River Queen Restaurant and met representatives from the U.S. and Russia. He told them he’d decide which of them would get the codes after he flipped a coin, but at a time and a place of his choosing. Shortly afterwards King and Batman burst in on him, and Two-Face escaped through a hidden door. King and Batman found themselves trapped in a room boobytrapped with heat-seeking lasers. Batman set off a phosphorus capsule from his utility belt, drawing the fire of the lasers, and the ensuing fire drew the staff of the restaurant. Two-Face met the U.S. and Russian delegate at a Mardi Gras festival, and after taking 22 million from each of them he flipped his coin. He caught it between his fingers, and said that because it was on it’s edge they lost and he won. Two-Face took off in a blimp and Batman managed to board it. Two-Face attacked him fiercely and Batman hung unto the blimp with his fingertips. Two-Face was ready to kick him off, but Batman persuaded him that he had to use a coin flip to make that decision. Batman distracted him long enough for King Faraday to enter through an entry hatch and he shot at the villain. His bullet hit Two-Face’s coin and he dived out of the blimp to grab it, saying that his life was worthless without it. Batman was saddened by his apparent death, and asked if Faraday was proud of himself. Faraday was satisfied the missile codes died with Two-Face and said he’d left behind fulfillment and happiness when he’d chosen his line of work.

(Batman I #333, 334) - A decade ago King Faraday’s partner Archer Templeton vanished. They promised each other that should either of them disappear they’d try to contact the other with a secret radio band. Two days ago Faraday finally picked up a message from Archer, leading him to Infinity Island in the Indian Ocean. Archer was nowhere to be found, but Faraday found his lifeboat, with the word “Batman” scrawled on it. He tried to contact Batman, but learning he was absent from Gotham City, settled for help from Robin and Catwoman. Robin made it clear he was only reluctantly working with Faraday, knowing how calculated and cold-blooded he was in fulfilling his duty. Faraday led them to his contact Quo-Quing, who’d been gunned down by an assassin. Robin and Catwoman failed to catch the killer and when they returned to Quo-Quing they found Faraday had been abducted. Catwoman decided her fence and informant in Hong Kong could help them figure out their next move. They met Chin Ho, who invited them to talk, but drugged their tea and had them bound. Chin knew Catwoman always disapproved of his living as an opium dealer and once interfered in his drug trafficking, so he decided to gain a measure of revenge on her, ordering his men to inject Catwoman and Robin full of cocaine. Catwoman used her claws to cut their binds and easily captured Chin. They found Chin had Faraday prisoner, and freed him. The trio made their way to Infinity Island, where three spheres engulfed them, dropping them in the mines underneath the island. The mines were filled with slave labor being whipped by mutate overseers. Batman and Talia had been in Hong Kong investigating Falstaff’s background, and Batman ended up kidnapped and tossed in the mines as well by Falstaff’s master. They fought off the mutates and made their way to find Batman’s paramour Talia al Ghul. She promised she was never Batman’s enemy and had come to Infinity Island to save him, but her youth was fading and she was aging for evry minute she lived. She reunited with the mastermind, her father Ra’s al Ghul, who restored her youth. He offered Batman eternal youth if he served him, but warned that if he rejected his offer Batman and his friends were all as good as dead.