SARDATH

Real Name: Sardath

Class: Extraterrestrial (Rannian)

Occupation: Scientist

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Bantteir (wife), Adam Strange (son-in-law), Adam Strange II (descendent), Alanna Strange (daughter), Aleea Strange (granddaughter)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: New Rann, formerly Ranagar, Rann

First Appearance: Showcase #17 (December, 1958)

Powers: Sardath was a brilliant scientist, and inventor of the Zeta Beam, which could teleport a target across light years instantly.

History: Rann's culture became stagnant, and its' people sterile. When Sardath invented the Zeta Beam he used it to teleport Earthman Adam Strange to Rann, saying the planet needed a champion, but also hoping he was fertile and could father Rannian children.

(Justice League of America I #120, 121) - With Adam Strange permanently on Rann, and with a distinct lack of planetary menaces, Adam proposed to Alanna. The day before their wedding ceremony a giant flying lens that once terrorized Rann seemingly vaporized Alanna. Adam lost his edge and drive after her supposed death. Kanjar Ro was behind the attack in an attempt to manipulate Adam Strange to send for the Justice League of America so he could destroy them on Rann. Sardath developed the Zeta-Plus Beams, which could be connected with Earth instantly, instead of taking years of advance planning, and Kanjar used the beam to bring members of the JlofA to Rann. Kanjar dispatched two more threats from Rann s past, the giant Kalulla bird, and the robot Borg. Borg apparently disintegrated the League, and Adam used the Zeta-Plus Beam to return to Earth and gather the rest of the League to avenge their comrades and deal with the mastermind behind the attacks. Before the League could form a plan of action they were alerted to a freak electric storm in Long Island, and left their satellite to respond, with Adam staying behind because Earth s surface was poisonous to him. The storm turned out to be a Cloud Creature, another revamped threat from Rann, and it defeated the League. Kanjar confronted Adam Strange and explained his schemes, but Adam responded by stealing the energi-rod he d used to recreate the Rannian menaces and zeta-beamed back to Rann. Sardath used the brain waves on file from Kanjar Ro s time as a prisoner on Rann to allow Adam control over the energi-rod. Adam correctly reasoned that Kanjar s ego demanded that he destroy the entire JlofA in one fell swoop, so the seemingly murdered Leaguers must have been in captivity on Rann. In an ice cave he found the five black spheres that Kanjar had turned the League into, and undid the transformation with the energi-rod. He found an additional black sphere, and it turned out to be Alanna. She told Adam that Kanjar kept her alive as insurance to have leverage against Adam if his plan failed. The JlofA returned to Earth and defeated the Cloud Creature. Without his energi-rod Kanjar was easy pickings, and Black Canary knocked him out with a karate chop. The League went to Rann with Adam and attended his wedding to Alanna.

(DC Comics Presents #3) - Sardath performed an experiment to stabilize the Zeta effect, and Kaskor used the opportunity to use his Zeta-Booster to swith Earth and Rann s places in their respective solar systems and send Strange to Earth. Kaskor decided that if he couldn't rule Rann he d destroy it; when the Booster wore off Rann would return to its rightful place in Alpha Centuri and both Earth and Rann would explode. Superman was off-world during these events, and when he found Earth gone, Sardath explained the situation and he and Alanna pleaded with him to help. Superman and Strange teamed-up to defeat Kaskor, and used a spacewarp to return Earth to the Milky Way moments before Rann returned to Alpha Centuri.

(Strange Adventures II #1, 2) - Gavyn offered the Rannians refuge on Throneworld, making it the New Rann. Sardath held an inquest to determine if  Adam Strange committed criminal offenses in the destruction of Old Rann. Strange was not present, seeing his abilities were needed elsewhere, but Gavyn represented him. He convinced the council that Rann's demise was imminent, and Strange's actions that resulted in Rann's destruction and the defeat of Synnar were the only course available to him, so he was cleared of all charges. Adam Strange reported the disappearance of a star to Sardath and Alana, but Sardath pointed out that his star was never on the star chart. Adam Strange concluded that reality itself was being altered, and Sardath called him mad and delusional.

Comments: Created by Gardner Fox & Mike Sekowsky.