History

Mayavale is a native of the planet Avatanda, a world "cut off from the main spaceways." There, the natives have been devoted for eons to meditation and the divine search for the ultimate reality. Mayavale himself spent the first 150 terrestrial years of his life as an acolyte in a monastery. Unhappy with his progress and feeling he'd suffered a "mystic blockage", Mayavale was allowed to go into the Chamber of Lives where he inhaled "the wheeling mists" to clear away the impedance. Cautioned to breathe the green smoke only until the gong sounded, Mayavale disregarded the warning and dove deep into "the ocean of years." The experience filled him with instant complete knowledge of fifty thousand lifetimes, an influx which caused him to go insane.

Learning that he had spent his past 60 lifetimes doing "nothing but good," Mayavale decided it was do some evil to balance out his karma. Based on the artificial world All Time, which contains relics and civilizations from all eras of time, the fiend lured the Legion of Super-Heroes to his planet to destroy them.

Escaping various death traps, the Legion confronted Mayavale and forced him to flee into the vastness of space where he swore he would unleash more of his "evil" into the galaxy.