Arkon is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is the warlord and ruler of the extra-dimensional world of Polemachus.
Arkon first appeared in Avengers #75 (April 1970), and was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema.
Arkon was born of noble lineage on the extra-dimensional world Polemachus. The people of the Realm of Polemachus developed a culture that glorifies warfare, and Arkon succeeded in becoming the greatest warrior of his people. Appointed Imperion (ruler) of the largest country on Polemachus, Arkon mounted military campaigns against neighboring countries in an effort to conquer the world. His dreams were forgotten when Polemachus was faced with a worldwide catastrophe in that the light-and heat-providing planetary rings were disintegrating. Arkon's scientists determined that atomic explosions occurring on Earth somehow were extra-dimensionally translated to rekindle the energy rings for about a year. Although Polemachus had not developed nuclear weaponry, the scientists predicted that if they were to atomically annihilate the Earth, their world's energy-rings would be restored to power.
Welcome to the dark corners of the earth
Madness river full of old bitterness
Black growns rule the world
Drowned deep in abyssal night
Psychotic dawn of new era
Archaic wind of twisted truth
Unhealthy opera
Ode to the ancient stars
Unhealthy messiah
Quest for the healing seed
Into infinity of the sea
You can hear the voices of decline
Tearing away all of your dreams
Passing away through human kind
Throwing away each guilty crimes
To indoctrinate you in its side
Behind this irreversible theater
Water runs like a blinding acid reign
Burning to the bones
Opponents resistance
Psychotic dawn of new era
Archaic wind of twisted truth
Unhealthy opera
Ode to the ancient stars
Unhealthy messiah