In 1939, Judd became fascinated with the mystical Black Blade of Baghdad. On finding it, he kept it for himself. When he touched the blade, the earthbound spirit named Razor was released.

Apparently it was as much Judd’s dishonest thoughts as the touch that released the sorcerer. Razor had been imprisoned in the blade long ago by his fellow Persian sorcerers to prevent him from killing any more people with his mystical sword, the Black Blade of Baghdad itself, which had originally been a gleaming white scimitar. In killing people, Razor had absorbed their life forces, the so-called “light” that their souls possessed, using it to increase his own power. His fellow sorcerers had used the magical light shining off the mystically-forged white scimitar to imprison Razor. Razor was now a wraith-like manifestation of mystical force. His evil had corrupted the sword over the centuries, turning it black and making it possible for him to escape it one day.

By passing the blade through a person, Razor could steal part of that person’s life force and add it to its own, in the process reducing the victim’s height. Razor began to use the power to steal Judd’s life force, reducing him to the size of a dwarf. Judd fought back against Razor, and used the “light” of his own soul to imprison Razor inside him.

The presence of Razor within his body has greatly extended Judd’s life and he has aged little over the years.

Little is known about the intervening years from the imprisonment of Razor to Puck’s joining Beta Flight. It is known that Judd spent a year in Spain with another famous adventurer, the author Ernest Hemingway, where he learned to become a bull fighter, despite his size.

James MacDonald Hudson had Judd paroled from prison to join Be ta Flight. At that time, Judd promised Hudson that he would never kill another human being. He eventually joined Alpha Flight after dropping out of sight for a while.

In a battle, he was forced to kill the menace known as Deadly Earnest. That, along with other pressures, such as his feelings for Heather Hudson, and his wish to return to normal size, enabled Razor to escape from Judd’s body. Judd grew to his full height but also aged all the years he had lived. Alpha battled Razor while Judd knew that he needed to imprison the sorcerer again. Using his “light," Judd once again drew Razor inside him. Judd returned to his dwarfish size and youthful appearance.

Alpha Flight journeyed to the site of a previous battle, the Ebony Firefountain, in an effort to cure the two twins, Aurora and Northstar, of mysterious ailments. During a fight with dark elves, Puck was hurled into the Ebony Firetountain. Loki, who was manipulating events from afar, arranged to have the Ebony Firefountain remove the demon Razor from Puck’s body.

For reasons known only to himself, Loki negated the effects of time on Puck’s body, so he retained his youth while growing to full size. But Judd’s face looked as if he were ap proaching his real age of 74 years. Puck was separated from Alpha Flight at this point and the team assumed he was killed in the battle. Actually, Loki teleported Puck to the Himalayan Mountains, where he spent his time wandering and pondering his existence.

Eventually, Puck decided to search for the Doorway Between Worlds, a mystical portal in the Himalayas that opened onto other worlds. Instead he found his old teammates in combat with the entity known as the Dreamqueen.

While helping Alpha Flight fight the Dreamqueen, Puck sacrificed himself in order to hold the villainess in her own dimension while Laura Dean closed the portal with her newly discovered power. During his time in the Dreamqueen’s dimension, Puck was tortured mercilessly by the Dreamqueen. When she was done torturing him, she would renew his body to ready him for more torture.

The Dreamqueen again fought Alpha Flight and at the end of the battle was banished to a distant limbo dimension. Puck escaped his prison and learned how to manipulate the Dream dimension.

Puck was able to escape the Dream dimension when Alpha Flight was tricked into it by Llan the Sorcerer. The Sorcerer had created an alternate Manhattan, completely populated by warped versions of super-heroes, in order to trap Alpha Flight there while he continued his conquest of Earth. With Puck’s help, Alpha Flight was able to escape the dimension and return to Earth to defeat Llan.

The victory was not without a price, however. The injuries Puck ac cumulated in the Dream dimension appeared once he returned to Earth. As they were cured with Dreamworld substance, the magic didn’t stay be yond the Dream dimension.

While in the hospital, trying to re cover from his injuries, Puck’s height had mysteriously shrunk by two feet when he was captured by two minions of the Master. Throughout his stay in the hospital, the Master’s slaves had been injecting Puck with an enzyme derived from the flesh-manipulator Scrambles’s blood and Puck’s blood from a former stay at the hospital. The enzyme “read” Puck’s previous blood as from a dwarf and was forcing Puck’s body back into that shape.

While being held prisoner at the Master’s interdimensional complex, Puck was subjected to furthertreat ments to make him into a mate for Marrina. When Alpha Flight found him, he was a shifting mass of flesh, barely even resembling a human being. Walter Lankowski, using the Master’s equipment, molded Judd’s DNA back into its previous form, which also turned Puck back into a dwarf. Puck’s tissues were condensed in this process of genetic manipulation, which caused his body to become denser. His body is now similar in strength and density to compressed rubber. After gaining these new powers, he rejoined Alpha Flight.