{"id":1176,"date":"2019-06-14T08:51:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:52:27","slug":"154-sargon-the-second-string-sorceror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/154-sargon-the-second-string-sorceror\/","title":{"rendered":"154 &#8211; Sargon, the Second String Sorceror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sargon-the-sorceror-790x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from All-American Comics #26, March 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sargon-the-sorceror-790x1024.png 790w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sargon-the-sorceror-231x300.png 231w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sargon-the-sorceror-768x995.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/sargon-the-sorceror.png 804w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from All-American Comics #26, March 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sargon_the_Sorcerer\">Sargon the Sorceror<\/a> debuts in All-American Comics #26 (March 1941). Wikipedia describes him as a &#8220;second string mystic&#8221;, though his turban, ruby and cape make him pretty distinctive. Sargon is really David Sargent, just a regular guy, who learns he has powers to shape reality to his whim through the Ruby of Life &#8211; maybe it was one of the Infinity Stones? As is natural in the DC Universe, he decides to adopt an identity to conceal his powers and becomes a stage magician, complete with turban, to hide the fact that he has real powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, the DC Universe is pretty full of magic-wielding characters:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Occult\">Doctor Occult<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zatara\">Zatara<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Thunder\">Johnny Thunder<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectre_(DC_Comics_character)\">the Spectre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Fate\">Doctor Fate<\/a>, and now Sargon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sargon the Sorceror debuts in All-American Comics #26 (March 1941). Wikipedia describes him as a &#8220;second string mystic&#8221;, though his turban, ruby and cape make him pretty distinctive. Sargon is really David Sargent, just a regular guy, who learns he has powers to shape reality to his whim through the Ruby of Life &#8211; maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,14,38,198],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-dc","tag-magic","tag-sargon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}