Sargon the Sorcerer
Sargon the Sorcerer' is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Pre--Crisis
John Sargent
Sargon performed at a USO show with someone he thought was his old friend Tony Blake. Something seemed different about 'Blake' so Sargon used his ruby on Tony Blake’s personal effects and learned a Nazi spy was impersonating him and using a tap-dance routine at the USO show to send messages to a nazi submarine. Sargon used mind control on “Blake” and forced him to tap out bad info to the Nazis. Sargon exposed 'Blake' as a spy, and then located the Nazi submarines he was communicating with and blew them up with their own torpedoes. (Sensation Comics v1 #35) Sargon performed at the Borman Milk Co.’s Ten Percenters Club meeting. The Ten Percenters had a plan to combine their milk routes with rival Scheffler to save gas and rubber for the war, and veteran Tommy Shaw went to deliver the plan to Scheffler. Sheffler rejected the plan, so Sargon brought Scheffler and Borman together and gave them a vision of what the war was like, seen through Shaw’s eyes. The rivals then readily agreed to the plan. (Sensation Comics v1 #36)
Sargon was troubled because his assistant Maximillian O’Leary kept blowing his paycheck on fancy clothes. When O’Leary asked for an advance on his salary Sargon animated the money and gave it instructions not to allow O’Leary to buy clothes with it. O’Leary tried to buy imported undershirts, but the money turned into a snake, then a vicious goo, and finally screamed when given to the salesman. O’Leary solved the problem by dumping the money in the register, but the money set itself on fire burning up the day’s sales, and Sargon had to admit defeat and reimburse the salesman. (Sensation Comics v1 #52) Sargon was infuriated when Max messed up his kitchen trying to bake a birthday cake. He berated Max, and reminded him he was a stage-magician assistant no one would hire before Sargon found him. Max ran off, and Sargon felt remorse when he assumed the cake was for Sargon’s birthday. He caught up with Max and apologized, but Max was having none of it. It was only after Sargon foiled some bank robbers who had shot a hole in Max’s hat that Max came home. Max tol him it was his birthday, which was why he was making a cake. Max an Sargon celerated their birthdays together. (Sensation Comics v1 #53)
Sargon performed his act at the Star Bright Revue, showing off his new trick, the Sargon Swing, where he threw a piece of rope into the air, animated it, and ha Max swing from it. The Flying Foxes, who were in danger of being fire because their act ha gotten stale, bought the rope from Max, not realizing it was useless without Sargon’s magic. When they found out they attacked Sargon and Max on stage. Sargon and Max avoided them, an the Foxes engaged in a wrestling match, each unaware they were fighting the other. The audience loved it and Sargon told the owner of Star Bright to keep them on as a comedy team. (Sensation Comics v1 #55) Max brought Harley Cooper home to Sargon. Cooper was living on the streets and in trouble with the police for stealing food, but told Sargon he couldn’t return home because he was afraid of his guardian Uncle Jules. Sargon visited Jules, and learned that he lost his temper because Harley always lied to him. Sargon cast a spell on them, so that every time Harley told a lie he would immediately have to own up to it, and every time Jules lost his temper an animated mirror would show him how frightening he looked when enrage. With Sargon’s help they knew they’d get on better. (Sensation Comics v1 #56)
Post-Crisis
Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
It was said that he was a figure with a great deal of power and influence in the magical world. Decades, he and his comrades including Zatara, Mister E and Tannarak came to establish themselves as leaders of the Brotherhood of the Cold Flame. At some point, he was noted to have had a daughter named Jaimini Sargent who when she reached adulthood came to take her fathers power for herself and his position within the cult. (Constantine v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
One incarnation was of him was noted to have had a dark skinned daughter named Jaimini Sargent. (Constantine v1 #1)
Maximillian O'Leary
Powers and abilities
He derived his power from the Ruby of Life that was found over 4,000 years ago where it was placed in the Temple of Asyreth who was the goddess of the Tiparanes. It came to be lost when the temple was sacked by the savage Aryan hordes and it was passed on over the centuries until the modern age. Those that touched the stone and spoke the ancient formula gained unlimited power over man and beast as well as over the living and the dead. (All-American Comics v1 #26)
Over seven thousand years ago, Nommo, the immortal ruler of a destroyed civilization grew lonely. He created several artifacts of power, one of which was called the Ruby of Life. Nommo hoped that through the generations, the owners of these gems might evolve into beings capable of interbreeding with a species of homo sapiens that used magic and would then be his new subjects. Over the millennia, the Ruby of Life was broken into several smaller pieces, one of which was discovered by an archaeologist in Egypt. Giving it to his wife, she wore it as a pendant. It was the first thing that their newborn child, John Sargent, saw and touched. Bonding with him in that manner allowed John to tap into the mystical energies controlled by the Ruby.
Notes
- Sargon the Sorcerer was created by John B. Wentworth and Howard Purcell where he made his first appearance in All-American Comics v1 #26 (May, 1941).
Alternate Versions
- In Golden Age v1 #1 (1993), an alternate version of Sargon the Sorcerer appeared in a reality within the Multiverse. In 1950, he attended the rally in Washington, D.C. where all costumed superheroes were to appear by Presidential decree to show their loyalty. During the rally, Miss America Joan Dale publicly exposed Tex Thompson as being the Ultra-Humanite and attempted to also expose Dynaman as being Adolf Hitler in Daniel Dunbar's body when the Ultra-Humanite had Robotman Robert Crane silence her by murdering her in public. Rex Tyler (Hourman) took over for Joan Dale in the exposure of both Thompson and Dunbar, causing Dynaman to show his true colors and to attack the various superheroes present. It is not known how involved he was in the battle with Dynaman, or if he survived it.
In other media
Films
- In Legends of Tomorrow, Sargon the Sorcerer appeared in the setting of the live-action television series set in the Arrowverse during the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover where portrayed by actor Raúl Herrera. At some point in time, Sargon became a well-skilled magician, calling himself as Sargon the Sorcerer. In 2020, Sargon tried to rob a bank in Star City just after the Paragons discovered Earth-Prime's creation as a consequence of the rebirth of the Multiverse. The infamous magician conjured a giant Beebo with his abilities in order to distract the superheroes from his evil plan. As the Atom, Supergirl and other heroes moved to stop the magic creature, The Flash and White Canary showed up at the bank which Sargon was robbing and they stopped him in mere seconds: suddenly, Sargon's defeat undid the creation of Beebo which liquified before the heroes.
Appearances
- All-American Comics v1: (1941)
- Sensation Comics v1:
- Constantine v1:
- Justice League Dark v2:
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