History: King Kull was ruler of the Submen, a brutish race that enslaved humanity in prehistoric times until they were overthrown. Kull existed in suspended animation up until the present day, and became a foe of Captain Marvel.

(Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett) #137) - King Kull, the Beastman learned that Shazam had ages ago captured the Seven Deadly Sins, evils gods that represented the worst of humanity, and kept them as stone statues in the Rock of Eternity. He used a life-ray to restore them to life, bringing them to his underground kingdom Evil Olympus to manufacture sin bombs to destroy mankind. Billy Batson showed up at work, thrilled with his job when Sterling Morris announced he was cutting his salary as well as the salaries of everyone at WHIZ so he could keep all the money for himself. Billy was bummed and stopped at Doc Quartz’ for a soda, but Doc said he hated his customers and kicked him out. The dejected Billy visited Dexter Knox, to find the boy genius sleeping instead of working on science experiments. Billy spotted King Kull lobbing sin bombs around Fawcett City, and changed into Captain Marvel. Kull shoved him out of the way, fleeing back to his hideout underground. Marvel consulted Shazam, who told him all about the Sins. Kull started dropping sin bombs from a helicopter, and Billy was at WHIZ when he was hit. Full of hatred he almost attacked his boss before fighting off the effects of hatred and changing into Captain Marvel. Marvel confronted Kull in Evil Olympus, defeating him and using his life-ray to turn the Sins back into stone statues.

(DC Comics Presents #34) - Mr. Mind teamed with the 5^th Dimensional imp Mr. Mxyzptlk to conspire against Captain Marvel and Mxyzptlk ‘s enemy Superman. Mr. Mind recruited King Kull, promising he could destroy humanity after he helped them defeat the heroes. Mxyztplk created a magic lightning rod at the Rock of Eternity that transferred Shazam lightning bolts to Kull, increasing his power fourfold. He stood his ground against Marvel and Superman, but Mxyztplk was uncomfortable with muder, he only wanted to torment Superman, so he sent the heroes to Earth-S’ funny animal dimension to protect them. Kull left Mind to deal with his reluctant associate while he stormed the U.N. to let the world know he intended to obliterate humanity. He was opposed by Captain Marvel, Jr. and Mary Marvel, but easily defeated him. Mxyztplk knew the villains had gone too far, and undid his spells, returning Kull to normal strength. He sent funny animal Hoppy the Marvel Bunny after Kull, who defeated the villain with one punch.

Comments: Created by Otto Binder & C.C. Beck