First appeared in Marvel Mystery Comics #13 in 1940 and was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon. Aarkus is an alien law enforcement officer from a dimension called Smokeworld. While Aarkus is looking for a suitable place to exile a prisoner, he is accidentally contacted by an Earth scientist named Markham Erickson. Leaving the prisoner on the planet Jupiter, Aarkus accepts Erickson's invitation to fight crime on Earth. He Vision can generate illusory images of himself, fly, generate ice and extreme cold, and teleport wherever there is smoke.