Sentinels of Magic

The Sentinels of Magic are a superhero team who feature in DC Comics.

History

The Sentinels of Magic were a team of magical superheroes who gathered to protect the world from threats of a mystical nature. The team gathered together to oppose Asmodel after the fallen Pax Dei angel had bonded to the Spectre and gone on a rampage where together they subdued Neron and unleashed hell on Earth. It was Doctor Occult who began gathering an army of mystics to stop him as the Sentinels of Magic. (Day of Judgment v1 #1) In search of a weapon to defeat Asmodel, Captain Marvel went into space to retrieve the Spear of Destiny. Hal Jordan agreed to try and become the new Spectre, but was struck down. The JSA then arrived on the scene, with the new Dr. Fate Hector Hall) in tow. (Day of Judgment v1 #3) The Sentinels channeled their mystical powers into Hal to defeat Asmodel. In Hell, Blue Devil was resurrected by Faust, who also re-ignited the fires of Hell by murdering the Enchantress. On Earth, Neron took over Superman's body and seized control of the Spectre. (#4) Hal Jordan ultimately defeated Neron and Asmodel and assumed the Spectre's mantle. (Day of Judgment v1 #5) He then entrusted the Spear of Destiny to the Sentinels, who sent it into the sun after dispatching the Wizard and casting a spell to ensure that only they can retrieve it. (Day of Judgment Secret Files v1 #1)

The group were later attacked by Hermes Trismegestus who sought to unleash Hell on Earth. At the time, Hermes was residing within the body of Felix Faust and he resurrected the Enchantress as his agent to steal the souls of the Sentinels. The JLA recruited Faust and Blue Devil to help them, and Tempest was infused with the spirits of old Atlantean B'Mirian mages. Ultimately, the Enchantress was united with June Moon thus temporarily creating a new entity called the Soulsinger. The Soulsinger used the stolen heroes' souls to banish Trismegestus where Blue Devil sacrificed himself to stop the demons and both Fausts emerged unharmed. Afterwards, Zatanna was named liaison between the JLA and the Sentinels of Magic. (JLA: Black Baptism v1 #4)

They helped the Justice League purge Earth of the White Martians by nullifying the gravity of the moon. Thus, the moon was brought burning into Earth's atmosphere. (JLA v1 #58) With help from Tempest, the Justice League helped defeat an attempt by Ocean Master and Black Manta to take over Atlantis. Zatanna and the Sentinels of Magic then discovered that ancient Atlantis had in fact been cloaked for 3,000 years. They were responsible for casting a spell to send the Justice League back in time to find Aquaman. (JLA v1 #68)

The Sentinels of Magic battled the Demon, who had been separated from Jason Blood and was tapping into the power of Stonehenge. At Phantom Strangers request Martian Manhunter joined the Sentinels in battle, and found Morgan Le Fay, who had Jason Blood trapped in a tesseract jewel. Manhunter shattered the jewel, freeing Blood, and ending the Demon’s threat. (Martian Manhunter v2 #28)

Marshalling in Gotham City following the destruction of the Rock of Eternity above the city by the Spectre's hand, the magic users worked to remove the remaining wild magic from the city, re-imprison the Seven Deadly Sins and other demons that had escaped their shackles during the conflict and reform the Rock of Eternity.

As the Infinite Crisis began to separate the planet into multiple Earths, the planet's remaining magic users assembled at Stonehenge to call forth the Spectre to help defend the realms of magic. While the Spectre did appear, he simply killed Star Sapphire Deborah Camille Darnell for her past crimes and abandoned the remaining magic users to their fate. The planet was later saved due to a joint effort of Batman attacking and destroying Brother Eye and Nightwing, Wonder Girl and Superboy destroying Alexander Luthor Jr.'s tuning tower.

The Sentinels later joined with other heroes in a mass defense of Metropolis as Alexander Luthor attempted to conquer the planet through sheer force by sending every known villain to destroy the city in a final act of destruction that was also ultimately foiled.

Overview

In appearance, the Sentinels of Magic were a team whose members all came from a mystical background and nature. They were a specialized mystical defense organization whose sprawling field assembly consisted entirely of adult humanoid metahumans, ancient sorceresses, reanimated spirits, and unique demonic hybrids. They featured an irregular, highly distinct collective physical presence because their separate members maintained distinct evolutionary heritages, varying from the slender bipedal frameworks of Zatanna and Madame Xanadu to the towering, blue-skinned cybernetic-demon anatomy of Blue Devil. The organization possessed no unified natural hairstyles, facial parameters, or shared skin tones due to the distinct ancestral lineages of its individual members, presenting the pale, hairless skeletal face of Deadman alongside the radiant hair locks and traditional civilian features of their human sorcerers. They expanded their visual identity by entirely rejecting uniform state military camouflages, standard metal plate armors, or matching corporate jumpsuits, allowing individual champions to wear custom vestments that highlighted their personal crimefighting personas. Their garments and everyday operational gear consisted of a vibrant, distinct mixture of styles, including the classical stage magician tuxedo worn by Zatanna, the tattered patch-work fabric suit worn by Ragman, the hooded indigo cloaks worn by Raven, and the high-collared crimson and green energy suit worn by the Starheart-infused Sentinel. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)

They utilized their collective histories as seasoned crimefighters and elite tactical operators to execute highly synchronized rescue maneuvers, handle high-risk liability protection, and launch devastating team-based shock assaults against extra-planar entities. They did not possess a single shared, uniform superpower or collective physical invulnerability, relying instead on a highly diverse array of separate biological traits, ancient sorceries, and advanced mystical items. Their specialized capabilities allowed separate units to rewrite localized rules of physics down to the millisecond by speaking backward via Zatanna, project a soul-self phantom matrix to induce telepathic psychological containment via Raven, possess the physical muscle structures of living target organisms via Deadman, and absorb the souls of evildoers via Ragman's suit. When confronting high-tier universal tyrants, the syndicate possessed the technical authorization to pool their independent spiritual energy reserves into a singular, high-yield magical conduit to manifest reality-warping outcomes. Their primary capabilities allowed them to override standard civilian police jurisdictions during supernatural emergencies, traverse the boundaries of Heaven and Hell completely undetected, and maintain a highly disciplined global defense barrier capable of repelling cosmic invasions. (Day of Judgment v1 #3)

Members

• Alan Scott : Alan Scott was a male founding member of the team who was Earth's first original Green Lantern where he wielded the mystical powers of the Starheart. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)
• Zatanna : Zatanna Zatara female founding member of the team who was a magical user that cast spells casts spells by saying what she wanted backwards. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)
• Enchantress :
• Ragman : Rory Regan was a male founding member of the team that wore the mystical Suit of Souls. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)
• Raven :
• Sebastian Faust :
• Madame Xanadu :
• Deadman : Boston Brand was a male human who became disembodied spirit that could temporarily take possession of any living being in order to fight evil forces. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)
• Doctor Occult : a private investigator who specializes in cases involving the supernatural. (Day of Judgment v1 #1)
• Phantom Stranger :

Notes

• The Sentinels of Magic were created by Geoff Johns and Matthew Dow Smith where they made their first appearance in Day of Judgment v1 #1 (November, 1999).
• The team made their first appearance in Days of Judgement #1 (November 1999) as part of the "Day of Judgement" storyline. The title brought together several of DC Comic's occult characters as allies of the Justice League-related characters. The team would later be involved in the major storyline "Black Baptism" within the JLA: Black Baptism (May–August 2001) miniseries in which centered around both members Sebastian Faust and the Enchantress, the latter serving as the main antagonist alongside other characters. The Sentinels of Magic would appear again for the final time in the "Obsidian Age" storyline in the JLA title.

In other media

Television

• In Young Justice, the Sentinels of Magic appeared in the setting of the animated television series during the season Phantoms. It was a magical group headed by Zatanna and consisted of Khalid Nassour, Traci Thurston, and Mary Bromfield. The younger magic users were being personally trained by Zatanna in order to help free her father Zatara from Nabu's control. The collective bypassed traditional superhero hierarchies to establish a rotational mentorship program designed to secretly divide the permanent psychological burden of the Doctor Fate mantle. Within a shifting global battlefield, the group launched a high-stakes counter-offensive against a renegade Lord of Chaos named Child and her parasitic flawed anchor, combining their unique magical reserves to reinforce planetary defensive barriers and permanently neutralize a apocalyptic plot to rip open reality's ley lines. After the Sentinels succeed, Mary left the group while Zatara arranges for Nabu to have the remaining members operate as Doctor Fate via a rotation-based agreement. Operating out of the pocket dimension inside the Tower of Fate, the squad fused their distinct disciplines to master backwards-speech spells, medical sorcery, and divine power channeling. They were later plunged into isolated, hallucinatory pocket dimensions administered by the entity of Fate. The squad established no shared communication lines during this spiritual trial, forcing each member to confront their deepest inner anxieties, identity conflicts, and latent temptations of magical addiction. Within these tailored mental landscapes, the collective individualistically bypassed despair to withstand Nabu's brutal psychological gauntlet. The group ultimately materialized back into the physical realm having proven their resilience, combining their unique, newly fortified magical convictions to emerge as recognized, viable candidates to potentially inherit the global responsibility of the Doctor Fate mantle.

Films

• In Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash, a musical group called Zatanna and the Sentinels of Magic appeared in the setting of the animated comedy film.

Video games

• In DC Universe Online, the Sentinels of Magic appeared as a faction in the setting of the MMO video game. They act as a magical based group on the side of the superheroes where Doctor Fate and Zatanna coordinated an army of wanded Homo magi mentors to monitor apprentices and secure urban mystical focal points across the Metropolis Chinatown district. Operating out of the heavily fortified Sentinels of Magic Citadel, the squad fused their distinct disciplines to suppress demonic corruption and guard reality-altering artifacts like the Ankh of Power. The collective established localized operations to counter the rising influence of infernal cults, ultimately triggering a high-stakes defensive counter-hex when the demon lord Trigon was unleashed by Circe and Brother Blood. Within the newly manifested, hellish warzone of the Gotham Wastelands, the group combined their unique mystical reserves to maintain a vital protective barrier, keeping the multi-dimensional conqueror securely trapped between worlds to prevent the absolute annihilation of the mortal realm. Tala tasked villain players with attacking their sanctuary in Metropolis's Chinatown where there were Masters and Apprentices at the site.

Appearances

• Day of Judgment v1 (1999)
• JLA: Black Baptism v1:
• JLA v1:

External Link

• DC Database Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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