(Sensation Comics I #35) - 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 I #36) - 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 I #52) - 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 I #53) – 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 I #55) - 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 I #56) - 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 I #58) - Riding a crowed elevator Max told Sargon that if he gave him $50 he could turn it into half a million. Sargon brushed Max off, but the other elevator riders followed Max and told him they wanted in. Max bought a phony treasure map from Hugh Piker with their money and showed it to Sargon. Sargon knew Max had been duped and went to see Piker, animating the map an having it attach itself to his face. He told Piker he’d only release him if he confessed. Meanwhile Max’s associates decided they didn’t trust him with the map, and held him at gunpoint. Sargon explained that they’d all been tricked, and Piker was forced to admit what he did. Sargon then left Piker alone in a room with Max’s associates so they could give him a thrashing.

(Sensation Comics I #59) - The Hall family chose Sargon and Max as arbitrators to decide which one of them would inherit their grandfathers’ cat Trigger. Sargon learned that Grandfather Hall left his money to the cat, and the cat’s inheritance would pass on to whichever family member was with him when he died. Sargon use the ruby of life to give Trigger the ability to talk, and then let him spend time with the three family members. Each one was willing to kill Trigger to get their hands on the money, so Trigger told Sargon he didn’t want to be with any of them. He chose an alley cat as his new companion and left the Halls.

(Sensation Comics I #60) - Sargon saw Bernard Phinney putting his life in danger because he wasn’t watching where he was going walking down the street. He told Sargon he was in love, and Sargon later saw him at a club with his girlfriend. Phinney was posing as socialite Joe Rich to impress his girl, and was kidnapped by thugs who sent a ransom letter to the father of the real Joe Rich. Sargon saved Phinney and told him to be himself around his girl.

(Sensation Comics I #61) - Heir Wally Jones attended Sargon’s magic show, but got in trouble with he police after being provoke by Apache Dancer Pierre. Sargon knew he was innocent and helped him evade the police. He learned that Wally’s inheritance would be forfeit if he got in troule with the law, and realized it was Wally’s guardian that was trying to undo him. Sargon got the guardian to confess, saving Wally’s inheritance.

(Sensation Comics I #65) - Sargon performed at a socialite party, and had the guests put their valuables in a treasure chest, which was then put in another room. Sargon summoned the chest, and had each piece of jewelry return to their owners. Melissa Ross was moeling a valuable necklace used in the act, and her boss accused her and Sargon of steling it when he realized it’d been replaced by a fake. Sargon animated the fake necklace, and made it point out the real culprit, Judy Manning, a rival model.

(Sensation Comics I #67) - Dutch stole Sargon’s Ruby of Life, put a fake gem on Sargon’s turban, and sold it to Beak Trask. He was disappointed at the fee he got and broke into Sargon’s home and brandished a gun at him. Sargon defeated him, and found Trask and his gang, who’d unwittingly used the Ruby to animate the animals of a carousel. Sargon recovered the Ruby and defeated them before they realize how powerful the artifact was.

(Sensation Comics I #69) - Someone claiming to be Sargon’s descendant from the 30th Century told him he needed Sargon’s help to defeat Blue Lama in the future. They traveled through time and space, when the “descendant” revealed herself as Blue Lama and left Sargon stranded in the void of outer space. Sargon transformed a passing meteor into transport back to Earth and stopped Lama from sinking the city. After a magicians duel he transformed her into a school of fish

(Sensation Comics I #70) - The Blue Lama hypnotized Sargon into believing NYC had been transformed into a desert wasteland. While Sargon fended off illusionary attacks from the Lama two of her henchmen hit him with a car, grabbed Max, and took them both to Lama’s underground lair. Lama showed him dozens of people who opposed her throughout the years who she hypnotized and turned to statues. She tol Sargon he’d suffer the same fate if he din’t submit to her, but Sargon brought her old enemies back to life and they attacked her. When she aimed a lightning bolt at Max, Sargon deflected it back at her, seemingly killing Lama.

(Sensation Comics I #72) - The day before Sargon was to testify against Blue Lama’s gang the sorceress sent him nightmares, first of her bombing a sports stadium, then of her ordering Aztec followers to sacrifice him. When he awoke he was disorientated and still thought he was dreaming. Lamac collapsed her temple on him, but Sargon animated trees that held up the temple and saved him. He pursued Lama, but she escaped.

(Sensation Comics I #73) - Miss Navaree came to Sargon asking for his help in recovering Egyptian ivory miniatures stolen from her boss Mr. Crane. In truth she’d stolen them, made a copy of them, and planted the copy in Sargon’s stage trunk. The police came to arrest Sargon, but he escaped an shrunk himself to hide among the forged miniatures. The fake miniatures were returned to Crane, an Sargon explained that Navaree was the real thief. He then returned to normal size an defeated Navaree’s gang and used his Ruby of Life to make her run to the police and confess.

(Sensation Comics I #74) - Blue Lama transported Sargon to her cavernous lair and defeated him. She wanted him out of the way when she killed the chief executive of the U.S. and assumed his place, but Sargon soon foiled her plans by breaking free. Filled with vengeance she tried to flood Washington, but Sargon defeated her, and she transformed herself into a pebble to avoid capture.

(Sensation Comics I #75) - Sargon’s stage manager went to get the payroll, and Sargon sent Max to guard him because of a recent string of “Invisible Man” robberies. Every time someone got payrolls from the bank a disembodied voice told them where to drop off the money and threatened gunplay. Sargon shrunk himself and hid in the stage manager’s bag, learning that the teller Mr. Wells slipped wire-recorders into the payroll bags to create the “Invisible Man.” Sargon and Max brought Wells and his gang to justice.

(Sensation Comics I #77) - Benson approached Sargon an asked for his help, he’d invented a silent radium drill, and his boss Slagg was forcing him to use the invention for crime. Slagg capture Sargon and Benson, and tied them up. He set giant bowling balls rolling to kill them and left. Sargon transformed himself into a giant bowling pin to deflect the balls, and then captured Slagg.

(Sensation Comics I #80) - Miss Morevilt owned the world’s largest diamond, but no gem-cutter could safely cut it, so Sargon volunteered his services in exchange for Morevilt giving her weight in diamonds to charity. He cut the diamond in two and hit a high-voltage generator hidden under the diamond by Voltini. Voltini took Sargon and Morevilt hostage and he threatened to kill Morevilt unless Sargon split the diamond halves into smaller, salable gems. Sargon obeyed, and then commanded the small gems to free Morevelt. He turned one diamond into a wooden shield to deflect Voltini’s volt gun, and defeated the villain.

(Sensation Comics I #82) - Sargon was invited to perform at the mansion of Milo Moat, a famous recluse. He turned the partygoers minds into those of children as his first trick, and then Milo revealed himself as an impersonator and a criminal. He knocked out Sargon and tied him up alongside the real Moat and proceeded to rob the partygoers. Sargon recovered and defeated the impersonator and his gang by animating a painting of sea serpents in the manor. The real Moat realized he missed his friends, who were present at the party, and decided to stop being a recluse.

(Sensation Comics I #83) - Sargon wanted to get Max a gift for the anniversary of when he became Sargon’s apprentice. Sargon went to Mayson’s gift store, and found it being robbed by Hunch and his gang. Sargon animate the store’s toys to apprehend the crooks, but forgot to pick up a gift. Max told Sargon he didn’t mind, he’d settle for some extra cash from his boss.

(DCU Holiday Bash #2) - <December 24, 1944> Sargon and the Justice Society put on the Justice Society Canteen for troops home for the holidays. They helped foil nazi saboteurs that tried to blow up the canteen, thanks to the help of Ensign James Gordon.

(Green Lantern I #37) - Sargon went on a fishing trip, visited a roadhouse and played track 13 on a jukebox. The track said the customers were about to be robbed and demanded they pile their valuables on the table. The jukebox installers were crooks, and arrived to make off with the loot, but Sargon used his sorcery to assault them with crockery. They knocked him out and tried him to a taxidermy reindeer, put it on rollers, and sent it down a hill. Sargon had the reindeer sprout wings to fly himself to safety, and met up with the gang trying their jukebox trick at an indoor skating rink and rounded them up.

(DC Comics Presents #26) -Sargon decided it was no longer safe for him to use the ruby of life, so he donated it to a museum and set up a protective spell around it. He spent months in retirement before hearing of crimes that sounded like only he could commit, such as levitating gold out of a federal reserve and animating paintings to steal themselves. He feared his evil side had taken over again, and investigated the museum to see if his ruby was still there. He was knocked out, and woke up in his home to find a pile of cash, and heard a news report about a bank vault turned to butter. He still feared he had gone bad until he noted that all the dollar bills were duplicates. He returned to the museum, and animated his portrait there to pretend to unlock the ruby of life; even without the ruby he’d retained some spell casting abilities. This drew out the Matter Master, who’d committed the crimes and tried to convince Sargon of his guilt so he could steal the ruby of life. Sargon defeated the villain, snapping his wand, and explained that he knew the money in his apartment were all duplicates so he knew someone else had the heist.

(Swamp Thing II #46) - Sargon was among the number of heros teleported to the Monitor’s satellite by Alexander Luthor, Jr., who explained his plan to make sure reality survived the Crisis.

(Day of Judgment #1-3) - Sargon was sent to Purgatory when he died. When several heroes traveled to Purgatory to find a new host for the Spectre, Sargon and many other heroes volunteered, but Green Lantern Hal Jordan was chosen. Keeper angels tried to keep Hal from returning to Earth, but Sargon and the other fallen heroes fought the Keepers long enough for Hal to leave and save all of creation from Asmodel.

(Swamp Thing IV #2, 3) - Sargon returned to the land of the living, never an impossible task for someone who’d spent their life weaving between the subtle realms. He returned with full knowledge of what the ruby of life actually was. He inhabited a lodge in Germany, and summoned the plant elemental / human hybrid Tefe Holland to him. He warned her that the Green from which she derived her powers had become her enemy, and her father Swamp Thing intended to kill her. He told her she had something Swamp Thing wanted, and presented her with the Ruby of Life, a magical item created with the sole purpose of elevating a human to godhood. Sargon said he always assumed he was the chosen one, but had come to realize that she was to be chosen for its gifts. The Ruby channeled elemental power, and she was unique in being an elemental clothed in human flesh. Tefe said she was sick of people mapping out her future; she’d never asked to be born with the responsibility of uniting man and nature. She threw the Ruby into a fireplace, but it returned to her hand. Sargon told Tefe that Swamp Thing feared her learning about the Red, the domain of animals, and he took her there, a land filled with blood and flesh that he showed her she could bend to her will. Tefe made herself a throne of bones, and Sargon told her she could save all of humanity by using her dominion over the red. Tefe admitted that the power felt right, but when they returned to the world, she was still skeptical about battling Swamp Thing. She didn’t get any time to think it over longer, because Sargon animated a rock golem to impersonate Swamp Thing.

(Swamp Thing IV #4-6) - The false Swamp Thing ripped off Tefe’s arm and crushed her spine, telling her she had three days to relinquish the power of the Red to him. Tefe healed herself, and allowed Sargon to teach her how to use her newfound powers. He continued to pound into her mind that it was her destiny to save the world from Swamp Thing, and that she had to show him no mercy. In truth Sargon was using the ruby to draw Tefe’s elemental power into himself. When the real Swamp Thing confronted Abby she gave him no chance to talk, but immediately attacked him. He wanted to work with him to restore the elemental balance, but she was fully in Sargon’s sway. John Constantine arrived to try and end the elemental war, and battled Sargon, who still blamed him for his death during the séance. Swamp Thing slew Tefe, and Sargon absorbed all of her elemental power. He prepared for godhood, but Alec Holland, whom Constantine had resurrected, reunited his human mind to Swamp Thing’s elemental power. With all the elemental powers concentrated in one being, Sargon could tap into all of them, and turned Swamp Thing’s powers against him. Constantine anticipated this, and knew that Swamp Thing’s newly rediscovered humanity could defeat Sargon. Swamp Thing dispersed all of the elemental powers from his own form, confident they would all find worthy champions, and he disappeared into the green. Without a power source to tap Sargon sputtered, and cursed Swamp Thing for denying him godhood. Tefe’s mother Abby Arcane knocked him out by clubbing him over the head with a branch.

Comments: Created by John B. Wentworth & Howard Purcell.

Sargon the Sorcerer received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #20. Sargon received a profile in Who's Who Update '87 #1 under the All-Star Squadron entry.

In the pre-Crisis DC Universe Sargon lived on Earth-2.

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