Man who would become Garokk was English sailor who when on expedition to find new land discovering the Savage Land, it was there he drank from the cup of Garokk and was attacked by the natives. Upon returning to England he notice he wasn’t aging. Back in the Savage Land, Zaladane took over the cult worshiping Garokk, the Sun People. While the sailor skin slowly took on a petrified look. While Zaladane killed several worshipers in order to bring Garokk back he start to feel there pain and came back to the Savage Land. Once there he touch the idol of Garokk and obtained the ability to project flames, astral projection and somewhat energy absorption. He projected his image to Zaladane who stop killing do to it. When Garokk when made with being unable to die he attack the Savage Land dwellers and was then attacked back by Ka-Zar who pushed into a molten lava pit where he became no more. While later Zaladane seek to revive Garokk and capture an adventure know as Kirk Marston, using the combination of her magic and the now solidified remains of Garokk into a potion to resurrect him, in Marston’s body. Marston's body quickly transformed into a duplicate of Garokk's own. Garokk new plans was to unite all Savage Land tribes by forcing them to create a colossal city for him and Zaladane. He was confronted by the might of the X-Men and Ka-Zar; depleted of energies Garokk ran to the down to the city’s thermal shaft but a blast from Cyclops optic blast knock him out and he felt into the pit. The X-Men believe he was dead and left only for their enemy Magneto to later found him and made him the guardian of his Antarctic base. But Garokk was change; he was larger and half his body had turned into crystal while the other half became like molten rock, and his intelligence was dulled. He came in conflict with the X-Men again and this time it was Storm who blasted him into another pit. This time the extreme heat melted him completely but also help him, as he regenerated his body and his intelligence reverted back to normal. In his molten form Garokk was witness to the Savage Land being destroyed by the alien Terminus, who was then defeated by the Avengers. Terminus armor was ruptured and left to die; but this Terminus was an imposter a Deviant weapon master Jorro. Garokk took his opportunity and bonded himself with the armor. He started to destroying the reminder of the Savage Land. The X-Me were calling in and M’rin came to Storm’s aid and help defeat the Garokk-Terminus, with the help of M’rin they destroy the armor revealing Garokk. It was at this moment that Rouge enter the armor and meet with Garokk who was shock to see her and started to absorbed his vast energies. The X-Men then took him down. But shock had complete erase his memory and the High Evolutionary, give him to option to revive the Savage Land by placing him inside a machine that drained his energies. This process infused Garokk's essence into the land, causing him to cease to exist as an individual entity. However as time when by Garokk grew distant and sought to return to his original self, he cause massive earthquakes, flooding and animals to go berserk. Eventually a fraction of the Sun People, know as the Death Cult, wish to free him in order to gain his praise and stop the destruction. Ka-Zar saw that the cult collected several innocents that they plan to kill in order to make them into his new vessel. Ka-Zar fought the Death Cult and destroy their base and Garokk reminded in a temple were other seek his aid.