Jaxon Rugarth was a professor in the 30th century who volunteered to pilot a hybrid vehicle designed by scientist Rond Vidar. This transport incorporated the Time Cube and a hyperspace drive, which Rond's Time Institute developed. However, when attempting to utilize Vidar's machine to transverse through time, a malfunction occurs causing Jaxon to absorb vast amounts of temporal energy. After having been pulled into various divergent timelines, Rugarth returned as the Infinite Man, seeking revenge against Rond for the torment his creation caused him. Opposing him was Rond's allies, the Legion of Super-Heroes, who battled Infinite Man and his various minions whom he plucked through time. Thanks to the intervention of Legionnaire Brainiac Five, Infinite Man became trapped in a circular loops throughout time.
The Lord of Limbo's origin is shrouded in mystery, although given his similar power set and appearance as well as the nature of his essence, he possibly has similar beginnings to those of his counterpart. Earth-Two's Doctor Fate stumbled upon this self-described Limbo Lord in the past, discovering that this being had held various time travelling telepaths hostage within his dimensional realm for eternity. Due to the fact that the Limbo Lord could not leave this dimension on his own accord, he lured these travelers there to amuse him. Due to the constraints of this Limbo, occupants residing there could not die and remained unaged.
During one adventure through time and space, Earth-One's Flash vibrated as he often done, yet was instead pulled into an adjacent dimension within Fate's universe. Flash formed a bond with the aliens there, and soon escaped Limbo with a goal of freeing his fellow prisoners Flash later returned with his counterpart in order to save that hero's wife Joan Garrick, whom the self-styled Lord of Limbo had pulled to his reality. The alien residents imprisoned there were also freed, returned to their native time by Doctor Fate.
As for Infinite Man, he was pulled from his temporal banishment during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. His energies prevented the "Crisis wave" from changing history in his native 30th century, until the Legion of Super-Heroes finally successfully stripped Rugarth of his abilities, returning him to normal. Some of those Legionnaires were possibly doppelgängers to the time traveling telepaths within Limbo.
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