Drago (Alien Dictator)

Drago (Alien Dictator)

The power mad dictator of a faraway world, who, having deliberately blinded the entire population of his own planet, with the exception of himself and his hirelings, by means of an evil sight-destroying bomb, has organized the now helpless, sightless populace into a vast army of wretched slave laborers for the purpose of forcing them to work without respite, under the most cruel and despicable conditions, on a insanely megalomaniacal landscaping project whose purpose remains a mystery to the blinded slaves, but whose real goal is nothing less than the reshaping of the entire planet into a colossal three-dimensional portrait of Drago himself, a titanic monument in his own image, designed to "spin in space through eternity!"

Drago dies shortly following his defeat from the effects of a fatal hereditary disease, and months later, when Superman returns to the distant planet for a promised visit, he finds to his astonishment that, following his last departure, "the people of this faraway world had continued their colossal landscaping project, but had reshaped their planet as an eternal tribute to their great liberator: Superman!" (S No. 155/1, Aug 1962: pts. I-II—"Superman Under the Green Sun!"; "The Blind Superman!"). (TGSB)