 He is based on swashbuckling actors Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power, and back-matter in the comics showed the three being contemporaries and friends.He is also compared at moments Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney, for playing various monsters.Lord's most famous film was the fictional 1940 adventure/horror "The Silver Blade", where he played a dashing nobleman that was cursed to become a gargoyle at night.