Real
Name: Shargen LORD SHARGEN
Real
Name: Shargen
Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-84106) extraterrestrial (Kalonian)
Occupation: Scientist, Base Commander
Group Membership: Boskone Empire
Enemies: Lensman
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: An unidentified planetoid in Boskonian space
First Appearance: Lensman: Galactic Patrol#2 (August
1990)
Powers/Abilities: Shargen was a capable if ruthless scientist, and had successfully created at least one fuzed species in the form of Kuto.
Height: 6'5" (by estimation)
Weight: 350 lbs. (by estimation)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: None
History:
(Lensman: Secret of the Lens#1 (fb) - BTS) - In Reality-84106 the
history of the universe differs significantly from many other timelines.
The Arisians originated in the Milky Way galaxy some ten billion years
ago. A benevolent and peaceful species that in time evolved into beings
of pure spiritual energy, they decided to watch over the newer species
that were arising across the galaxy. The Eddorians by contrast a
silicon-based species that originated in a multidimensional universe
parallel to the "main" one. Lacking emotions, especially the concept of
love, they became devoted to conquest. Five billion years ago they
conquered Andromeda, the galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, which they
dubbed the Landmark Nebula, but when they sought to move on to their
next target they found themselves opposed by the Arisians. Discovering
that direct conflict between the two would literally destroy both, like
matter meeting anti-matter, both sides elected to work through proxies.
The Arisians chose four planets - Sol 3, Rigel 4, Velentia 3 and
Palainian 7 - whose inhabitants they deemed would ultimately be capable
of producing enhanced Lensmen fighters, and set about directing the
evolution first of species and then of civilizations.
Back in the Landmark Nebula the Eddorians
likewise worked to evolve beings who could serve their interests. One of
these were the Kalonians, developed from crustaceans. Once their lackey
species were sufficiently technologically advanced, the Eddorians
integrated them into a single military organization, the Boskone Empire,
which the Kalonians headed. When they launched their invasion of the
"First Galaxy" the Arisians helped covertly directed their chosen
species into forming the Triplanetary Alliance in A.D. 2286 to oppose
them; this grouping later was renamed first the Galactic Council and
then the Galactic Patrol. Their greatest operatives were the Lensmen,
beings whose mental and psychological abilites had been enhanced by Lens
created and gifted to them by Arisians, and which look like discs worn
on the back of the Lensmen's hands. The conflict between the two
organizations would continue for the next few centuries.
(Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3 (fb) - BTS) - Late in the 25th century the Kalonian scientist Lord Shargen was performing unauthorized experiments to see if he could create better soldiers for the Boskone Empire. He recognized that while Boskone's forces had the edge in bulk and numbers, humans (and presumably other Galactic Patrol species) had greater brain capacity and reaction time. After at least one successful prototype experiment in fuzing lifeforms created Kuto, a cross between a snake and something eight-legged (akin to a spider?), he turnd his intentions to fuzing humans with Kalonians. A Base Commander at a Thionite Plant on a remote planetoid in Boskonian territory, Shargen used prisoners to test his theories, but he was working without clearance from Boskone, and he risked demotion if he failed since his experiments diverted prisoners away from their intended purpose as slave labor manufacturing Thionite. This was the most addictive (for humans) drug known to civilization, which Boskone used in an attempt to make the Galactic Patrol crumble from within, and the captive humans used to prepare it were kept pliant by making the workers all addicts too. However, this addiction also rendered the test subjects unable to survive the fusion process, causing all of Shargen's experiments to fail.
(Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#2) - Shargen's assistant Adoron reported the demise of
another test subject to Lord Shargen, confirming their suspicions that
Thionite addicts were too weak to survive the fusion process. However
Adoron informed Shargen that fresh cargo (i.e. prisoners) had just been
delivered, ones presumably not yet exposed to Thionite, prompting
Shargen to announce that he wanted all of them scheduled for his
treatment, determined his experiment would succeed and so raise him to
the pinnacle of Boskone power even if he had to destroy every single
human captive.
(Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#3) - Shortly thereafter Adoron informed Shargen that he
had spotted a human intruder dressed in a Galactic Patrol uniform within
the base. Shargen dispatched Kuto, and the creature swiftly captured the
man, pilot Henry Henderson, one of a group whose ship had been damaged
in battle with Boskone forces and forced to land on the planetoid, and
who now sought to destroy the Thionite plant. Unaware of Henderson's
specific motives or that he was not alone within the base, Shargen set
his new captive up to be the next test subject. When Henry asked him
what he was trying to achieve Shargen, used to his victims being too
drug-addled to speak, chose to humor the man and explained his intent.
Noting that Henderson had around a 7% chance of survival, much higher
than prior subjects, Shargen was about to begin the test when Henry's
crewmater, Tye Thomas, intervened. As he began to free Henderson,
Shargen again released Kuto, but Thomas impaled the beast with a
well-thrown blade, causing Kuto to convulse and begin firing its
back-blaster indiscriminately. Shargen avoided being shot only because
Adoron blocked what might have been a fatal blast with his own body. The
base commander fled, but moments later as the humans escaped booby traps
set by Thomas went off, blowing the base to smithereens. Whether or not
Shargen survived the explosions remains unrevealed.
Comments: Created by Tim Eldred and Ken Branch.
The Galactic Lensmen comics published by
Eternity Comics were based on the anime series Galactic Patrol Lensman
which first aired on October 6th 1984. That in turn was based on E.E.
Doc Smith's Lensman novels, the first of which, Triplanetary, was
serialized in Amazing Stories magazine starting with the January 1934
issue, and later collected into novel form in 1948. However, the anime
made so many changes to the source material that Smith's heirs disowned
it, despite having initially given it permission to use the copyrighted
material. The Lensman saga was highly influential on subsequent science
fiction works, and the concept of powerful aliens giving exceptional
individuals power enhancing devices caused many to suspect that DC's
Green Lanterns were based on the Lensmen. While Green Lantern's first
editor, Julius Schwartz, denied any such connection, subsequent GL
writers nevertheless paid homage to Lensmen, as evidenced by the
creation of the Green Lanterns Arisia and Eddore.
Since Eternity was an imprint of Malibu, and Malibu was later bought out by Marvel, these comics now fall under the aegis of titles eligible for Appendix coverage.
This profile was completed on 08/07/2026, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary's celebratory event to represent Lensman.
Profile by Loki.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Lord Shargen has no known connections to:
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A Kalonian, Adoron was
Lord Shargen's lab assistant. He informed Shargen of the latest
test subject's demise and that fresh captives were coming in,
not yet exposed to Thionite. He issued Shargen's orders to
redirect those prisoners from Thionite production to his lab,
and when a Kalonian overseer cancelled that order Adoron
personally vaporized him. He later
informed Shargen that he had spotted a human intruder, Galactic
Patrol pilot Henry Henderson, on his monitors, and watched as
Shargen sent his pet Kuto to capture the man. Once this was
achieved, Adoron prepared to carry out his master's fusion
process on Henderson, and was about to pluck out Henderson's
eyes on Shargen's instructions when another human intruder, Tye
Thomas, came to Henderson's rescue. During this Tye impaled Kuto
with a thrown knife; the creature began firing its built-in
blaster reflexively, and Adoron dived in front of Shargen and
urged him to flee before being gunned down by the random shots.
--Lensman: Galactic Patrol#2, (Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3
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Kuto was a successful prototype experiment of Shargen's, a creature that looked like a cross between a large spider and a snake, with a blaster built into its back. It normally sat at the end of Lord Shargen's staff, wrapped round the end inert, looking like a bizarre ornament, but when activated it would leap off and race away to hunt down and subdue anyone Shargen sent it after. It was sent after pilot Henry Henderson and successfully captured him for Shargen, but then combat specialist Tye Thomas came to rescue Henderson. Shargen again unleashed Kuto, but Tye had experience dealing with alien bugs and threw a knife through Kuto's neck. Dying, Kuto began spasming and reflexively firing its blaster, gunning down Shargen's Kalonian staff and nearly slaying Shargen too. --Lensman: Galactic Patrol#2, (Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3
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images: (without ads)
Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#2, p25, pan1 (main image)
Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#3, p15, pan1 (headshot)
Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#3, p12, pan1 (Shargen activating Kuto)
Lensman:
Galactic Patrol#2, p25, pan1 (Adoron)
Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3, p12, pan2 (Kuto
facing forward, skuttling)
Lensman: Galactic
Patrol#3, p13, pan1 (Kuto, smoke emitting from gun after firing)
Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3, p13, pan2
(Kuto leaping at victim)
Lensman: Galactic Patrol#3, p16, pan2-4 (Kuto being
destroyed)
Appearances:
Lensman: Galactic Patrol#2
(August-September 1990) - Tim Eldred (writer, pencils), Ken
Branch (inks), Chris Ulm (editor)
First Posted: 09/21/2026
Last updated: 08/07/2026
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