Darkseid was master of his domain on the planet of Apokolips, in a dimension adjacent to but not confined within the Earth-One universe. His counterpart Surtur had been manipulated by Earth-Two's Hitler into attempting to bring about the end of the dictator's world in a fit of vengeance.
Darkseid initially schemed of forming a coalition of costumed criminals in Earth-One, with the goal of allowing him to conquer that world and eventually his entire universe in his mad quest to obtain the mind-controlling Anti-Life Equation. However, the organization known as the Secret Society of Super-Villains soon after rebelled against their founder and his minions, severing his ties with them. He would not, however, give up on having superpowered human agents doing his bidding.
A few years later, Darkseid himself visited Earth-Two in order to restore himself after his alleged death, when he was turned into energy by a cosmic cannon. Remarkably, he once more recruited a Society of supervillains like he had on Earth-One, only unlike the Secret Society which had greater numbers and a more rebellious streak, the Injustice Society of Earth-Two yielded in submission to the power mad being. This team, the Injustice Society, assisted Darkseid in manufacturing a new body back on Apokolips.
The warlord then planned to transport Apokolips in place of Earth-Two within that alternate universe, which would have led to that Earth’s destruction. Had he have succeeded, Darkseid would be reality away from his mortal foes of planet New Genesis, leaving himself unchallenged where he could reign supreme in a new universe.
Thankfully, the combined forces of the Justice League and Justice Society along with the New Gods defeated Darkseid. Indeed, in each instance, his human servants failed fulfilling his schemes.
As for Surtur, after his minions were vanquished in Asgard by a Justice Society originating from a post-Crisis composite Earth, he himself was soon after defeated by their own combined might. However, due to the circular nature of time in that realm, this battle continued to play out repetitively for a seeming eternity between the monolithic menace and the mighty meta-humans. In fact, at a certain point, an alien race bravely assumed the place of the Society in this never ending battle that left Earth-Two and... by extension all reality... protected. The closest Surtur ever came to victory on that planet was the hazy clouds he projected from Asgard onto the Society’s world for a brief period in 1945.
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