Manic Monday--Sargon's Cat O' Nine Tails!!

Sargon the Sorcerer's plane has been hijacked by Nazis--they're after a French general on board.

You all remember how Sargon's power works, right? Anything he touches he has complete power over.

For example, he creates the Nazi Mr. Fantastic!

But then they bring out the big weapon!

"Cat O' nine tails--become nine cats"!!

This may be the best thing ever in a comic book, at least this week.

Which results in all out pandemonium...

Plus:

Sargon was essential the Axe Cop of the Golden Age...stream of consciousness anything goes. And he didn't even have to talk backwards!

From Sensation Comics #34 (1944)

Sargon's Paper Chase!

Everybody forgets about poor Sargon The Sorcerer.

I'm not going to claim that he was some giant of the Golden Age, but at least he had a different gimmick than "talking backwards," which describes 75% of magician heroes of the era.

Yet if it weren't for his memorable death in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, it seems as if no one today would even remember him.

So what was Sargon's shtick? Thanks to the Ruby Of Life, Sargon could animate and command any object he touched.

Let's say, for example, there's a recently shot corpse...

See, that is so much cooler than any episode of CSI...

Anyway, Sargon is busting a ring of Nazi agents trying to blackmail the Rumanian-American community into becoming saboteurs.

And what better way to defeat them, than by using their own flyers against them?!?

Holy crap!!

I'd have to think that, even in those days, "confession beat out of you by animated pieces of paper" wouldn't stand up in court...

From Comic Cavalcade #4 (1943)