SACKER

Real Name: Sacker

Class: Parallel Earth (Earth-AD) animal mutant

Occupation: Merchant, slaver

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Old Florida, Earth-AD

First Appearance: Kamandi #12 (December, 1973)

Powers: Sacker was a evolved, intelligent snake and an experienced merchant.

History: (Kamandi #12, 13 (BTS), 14 (BTS), 15) - In the aftermath of the nuclear Great Disaster most of humanity perished, and the majority of survivors devolved into feral savages, while animals evolved intelligence. Sacker was a evolved snake who made a name for himself selling pre-Disaster artifacts and slaves at Sacker's Department Store. He sent his cronies, Leopard-Men pirates, on a slave-taking expedition, and they came bvack with Kamandi, an intelligent human, and Kliklak, a giant mutant grasshopper. Kamandi briefly freed himself and Kliklak before being recaptured by the Leopard-Men. Sacker personally met with Kamandi, and his servant was a young woman that Kamandi mistook for his lost companion Flower. The woman was Flower's sister Spirit, and she wept when she learned her sister was dead. Sacker told Kamandi he'd give him limited freedom, and the chance to train Kliklak. Kamandi accepted, and ran deadly obstacle courses with Kliklak while Leopard-Men bet on him, but he didn't know what Sacker's endgame was. Spirit told him that Sacker was training him for Sacker's Sweeps, a race at Hialeah Racetrack where the racers were pitted against each other in a life or death battle. Spirit told him that Flower fled Sacker's when the current champion Bull Bantam began abusing her. Kamandi confronted Bull and beat him down, with Bull promising to kill him in the race. Kamandi won the race, but railed at a packed crowd about humans being neither prizes nor animals. Sacker had enough of Kamandi's antics, and the Leopard-Men locked him in a gas chamber, but Kamandi's old friend Prince Tuftan of the Tiger Empire used his influence to make a trade with Sacker for Kamandi's freedom. Sacker made final arrangements with Doctor Canus, and Kamandi asked about the trade and where Sacker was sending them, but the snake refused to dignify him with conversation. Kamandi told him snakes used to live beneath humans, but Sacker thought him mad. Tuftan and his men set off with Kamandi, bound for Washington, DC to find the pre-Disaster relics the Watergate Tapes, which Sacker wanted in his possession. The tapes were guarded by a cult of Gorilla-Men who worshipped the tapes, and although Tuftan's men fought them off they found most of the tapes broken.

Comments: Created by Jack Kirby.