Satanus is evil incarnate and desires one thing: Superman's soul! Satanus rules over an infernal netherworld, the seat of his dreadful supernatural might and staging ground for his assults upon the Man of Steel. Though he sometimes wields a hellfire-blasting gnarled staff, his very body is a conduit of powerful, eldritch energies. The dark lord's mortal guise is the dashing Collin Thornton, the Metropolis based publisher of Newstime magazine, former employer of Clark Kent.