Origin
Lew Kerr was a ruthless and selfish businessman who had the bad luck to be on a TriStar flight that fell through a portal in the Bermuda Triangle, transporting it to a hostile alien world dubbed the Planet of the Damned.
Creation
Lew Kerr was created by Pat Mills (under the pen name R.E. Wright) and Horacio Lalia for the Starlord strip Planet of the Damned.