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SORCERER

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Normal human (WWII era)

Occupation: Spy for Empire of Japan, stage magician

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: "Stooge" (assistant, name unrevealed), regional Japanese military

Enemies: Bucky (James Barnes), Captain America (Steve Rogers), regional US Army base

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Mysto the Magician

Base of Operations: Sorcerer's Hollow, "Far Pacific" region

First Appearance: All-Winners Comics I#4/2 (Spring, 1942)

Powers/Abilities: The slim Sorcerer is a usual stage magician with a flare for the dramatic and no real magic powers. He uses various standard stage devices such as a wand, a "magic" top hat to pull out a rabbit, small smoke puffs and a robe to disappear behind. His home base is a European-styled small castle which he has fortified with additional hidden tricks and camouflage devices. He has good aim at short distance with a handgun and is mercenary with his loyalties.

Height: 6'4"
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: Dark gray
Hair: Black

History:

(All-Winners Comics I#4/2 (fb) - BTS) - During WWII hostilities, the stage magician Mysto the Magician was hired by Imperial Japan to find out about the USA's defense plans in the Pacific. He kept his stage name as a pseudonym but took on the moniker Sorcerer for his covert activities. He dubbed his hideaway base Sorcerer's Hollow and built in various traps that scared the superstitious indigenous people. The Sorcerer also employed a violent hunchbacked assistant. Continuing his identity as Mysto, he was popular enough to be employed by the US Army to perform a stage show for US troops in the Pacific. By coincidence, soldiers Steve Rogers (secretly the heroic Captain America) and James Barnes (secretly the heroic sidekick Bucky) attended.

(All-Winners Comics I#4/2) - The Sorcerer dramatically appeared on stage and performed various magic tricks to the amusement of the servicemen. He called up the military camp's colonel for his next trick--and made him disappear behind his cloak; the Sorcerer quickly followed. Changing into costume, Captain America and Bucky quickly followed to investigate, but only found a taunting letter from the Sorcerer, who had fled back to his base with the colonel, but foolishly left behind his makeup kit that identified his home base's name. The Sorcerer tortured the colonel in an underground chamber, but Cap and Bucky had meanwhile found their foe's base. The heroes overcame the villain's traps and his nasty assistant, but fell down a trapdoor that linked to torture chamber. More traps delayed Cap and Bucky until they finally fought the Sorcerer. Overcoming him, the duo freed the colonel, who had learned of an imminent Japanese air raid. The three US Army men returned to base, taking along the Sorcerer and his vicious assistant. Once the Japanese were repulsed, the two villains were handed over to the US military police.

Comments: Creators not credited.

   The opening splash page shows the Sorcerer on stage sawing a large box with Bucky trapped inside and Cap leaping in to rescue him, but this never happens in-story.

   This profile was completed 11/24/2025, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary 's celebratory event.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Sorcerer (Mysto) has no known connections to:

images: (without ads)
All-Winners Comics I#4/2, p3, pan2 (main image)
   p2, pan6 (headshot)
   p12, pan7 (arrested alongside "stooge")

Appearances:
All-Winners Comics I#4/2 (Spring, 1942) - uncredited writer & artist(s), Stan Lee (editor)

First posted: 09/05/2026
Last updated: 11/24/2025

Any Additions/Corrections? please let me know.

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