T T HE S ENSOR S ERAPH S ERIFAN HE ERGEANT OCK T HE C OMBAT- HAPPY J OE DC C S R DC C FIRST APPEARANCE LEGIONNAIRES #43 (December 1996) FIRST APPEARANCE DC COMICS PRESENTS #46 (June 1982) FIRST APPEARANCE FOREVER PEOPLE 1st series #1 (March 1971) STATUS Hero REAL NAME Jeka Wynzorr STATUS Hero REAL NAME Chaim Lavon STATUS Hero REAL NAME None OCCUPATION Legionnaire BASE Legion World, U.P. Space OCCUPATION Teacher; activist BASE Jerusalem, Israel OCCUPATION Adventurer BASE New Genesis FIRST APPEARANCE OUR ARMY AT WAR #81 (April 1959) THE ALL-STAR SQUADRON earned much of America’s attention OMICS OMICS HEIGHT 12ft WEIGHT 250 lbs EYES Green HAIR Purple HEIGHT 5ft 10in WEIGHT 165 lbs EYES Brown HAIR Black HEIGHT 5ft 7.5in WEIGHT 143 lbs EYES Blue HAIR Blond STATUS Hero REAL NAME Frank Rock during World War II with their brightly-colored costumes and their SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Can sense the perceptions of others and SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Superstrength; Ring of Solomon enables SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Cosmic Cartridges create “shock-repelli-field” OCCUPATION Former leader of Easy Company BASE Mobile superhuman powers.Yet no one is considered a greater wartime hero create realistic illusions through hypnosis. Of royal blood, she is teleportation; Staff of Moses can transform into a snake, generate gravity effects, vehicle-fueling power, intense heat, or stun blasts. HEIGHT 6ft WEIGHT 183 lbs EYES Blue HAIR White (formerly red) than a simple, G.I.-uniformed Army sergeant named Frank Rock. Rock accustomed to giving orders. forcefields, and null gravity; wears the symbolic Mantle of Elijah. SPECIAL POWERS/ABILITIES Expert combatant, marksman, and battlefield E suffered unfathomable tragedies before he ever saw combat. His father E NCYCLOPEDIA leader; is skilled with almost every known firearm and can operate NCYCLOPEDIA A member of the FOREVER PEOPLE, most varieties of tanks and other heavy equipment. died in World War I. His stepfather suffocated during a mine collapse. Jeka Wynzorr is a member of the royal Chaim Lavon was born in Netanya, Serifan was one of five children from A father figure Rock looked up to while working at a Pittsburgh steel family of Orando, a planet inhabited by a city on the west coast of Israel.The New Genesis trained by HIGHFATHER mill also lost his life. Many of his siblings similarly perished, gigantic serpents with the ability to youngest of four siblings, Chaim was of the NEW GODS to use their but patriotic Rock enlisted in the army the day after the cast illusions. Despite family horrified by the continued miraculous powers in the defense IN PRINT Sergeant Rock opposition, Jeka joined the LEGION animosity between the Israelis and of their native Genesis. In one Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941 and received an was immortalized by writer OF SUPER-HEROES as Sensor. She the Arab world and became a adventure, Serifan and the immediate assignment to the European theater of war. Kanigher and artist Kubert. abandoned her claim to the Orandan pacifist and a teacher, working at an Forever People thwarted throne to devote her time to the Arab school to teach culture and DARKSEID’s agent, DEVILANCE THE GOOD SOLDIER QUIET HERO Rock never thought Legion, and also developed a close language to Jews and Muslims alike. but were trapped on the distant Private Rock didn’t truly distinguish himself until the D-Day twice about advancing on an friendship with her shape-changing On a pilgrimage to a small world of Adon. VIKYN used the invasion in 1944. Soon after, at the Battle of Three Stripes enemy machine-gun nest or teammate CHAMELEON. Because the synagogue outside Bethlehem, team’s Mother Box, to evolve Hill, he received a battlefield promotion to sergeant. charging into a firefight to Legion’s facilities were designed for Chaim stopped on a dirt road and Adon’s natives.Vikyn died, but Sergeant Rock’s unit, Easy Company, quickly became one of rescue a pinned-down humanoids, Sensor often wore a cried out in frustration to God for the Adonians became civilized the most distinguished fighting forces in Europe. Moving comrade. His men would harness fitted with cybernetic arms. an end to the suffering in the and the Forever People built them from North Africa to Italy to France to Germany, the follow him anywhere. Sensor suffered a grievous injury Middle East. Chaim was answered Forevertown, their first city. “combat-happy Joes” included such stalwarts as Wildman, which caused her to form a by a brilliant light and a voice that declared that Chaim Unfortunately, Serifan’s sensitivity Little Sure Shot, Bulldozer, Farmer Boy, and the Ice Cream healing cocoon.When she would lead the Middle East out of its destructive cycle of to telepathy allowed an evil entity, Soldier. Pulling off impossible missions, the company lived up emerged from the chrysalis conflict. Chaim was given several mystic objects and the Dark, to possess him.The Dark to their motto,“Nothin’s ever easy in Easy.” she had mutated into a new became the hero Seraph. turned back time on Adon, reversing Sergeant Rock struck up a battlefield romance with form—serpentine below the Seraph was invited to join DOCTOR MIST’s G LOBAL the Forever People’s gifts, but French resistance fighter MADEMOISELLE MARIE and served a waist, but humanoid above. GUARDIANS, becoming one of its most visible members, inadvertently resurrecting Vikyn. brief tour in the Pacific theater. He refused promotions so Since then she has rescued although he resided in Israel.When the first QUEEN BEE The INFINITY MAN ultimately drove often he received the nickname “the general of sergeants.” Legionnaires KARATE KID hypnotized a number of the Guardians into working for the Dark away for good. Serifan and According to legend, he died when struck by the last enemy and FERRO and has helped her, Seraph, unaware of the Queen’s cunning, distanced his friends returned to New Genesis, bullet fired on the last day of the war. defeat the villain himself from the team.After the Queen was defeated and where they continue to help the New Rock, however, survived. Performing postwar covert Universo. DW the Guardians were attacked by the villain Fain Y’Onia, Gods protect their planet from missions for the U.S. government, he battled his old foe Seraph returned, tending to injured teammate Tuatara. PJ warmongering Apokolips. SB the Iron Major and teamed up with Easy Company veteran Bulldozer on an assignment to Dinosaur Island. Recently, U.S. President Lex Luthor (see LUTHOR LEX) named General Frank Rock—by then in his SOLDIERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE 1) Vigilante I 2) Green Arrow S EVEN S OLDIERS SOLDIERS OF THE SILVER AGE 1) Batgirl I 3) Shining Knight 4) Star-Spangled Kid 5) Speedy 2) Deadman 3) Adam Strange 4) Mento eighties—Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Rock 6) Crimson Avenger I 7) Stripsey. OF V ICTORY 5) Blackhawk 6) Metamorpho died during the Imperiex War (see Great Battles, pp. 7) Atomic Knight. 320–1) and was buried with full honors at Arlington National Cemetery.A short time later a similar Frank FIRST APPEARANCE LEADING COMICS #1 (Winter 1941–1942) Rock appeared at the head of a reconstituted STATUS Hero team BASE Mobile 2 SUICIDE SQUAD. It is debatable whether this Rock MEMBERS AND POWERS 1 OLD SOLDIER Rock had never Crimson Avenger Two-fisted crusader for justice. was the original or merely an impostor. DW sought out promotions, but in the 1 3 7 Spider Expert with bow and arrow. 3 modern era he re-emerged as a Shining Knight Time-tossed paladin astride winged steed. general. Part of President Lex Luthor’s Vigilante I Expert fighter, horseman, marksman and singer. cabinet, he distinguished himself from his Billy Gunn All guts, fists and attitude. 2 shady commander-in-chief by leading the Star-Spangled Kid Wealthy teen turned combatant. military effort to destroy Imperiex. Stripesey Skilled fighter, even more skilled engineer. 4 Independently stopping the villainous agents of the Iron Hand, seven heroes joined together to become the Laws’ 5 Legionnaires, more commonly referred to as the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Founding members included the CRIMSON AVENGER, the Spider (see ALIAS THE SPIDER), the 4 SHINING KNIGHT,VIGILANTE I and Billy Gunn (later succeeded by Stuff), and the Star-Spangled Kid, and STRIPESY. 6 5 The Avenger’s aide, WING, was the unofficial eighth member. KEY STORYLINES 6 In 1948, the Seven Soldiers of Victory were betrayed by one of • OUR ARMY AT WAR #81 (APRIL 1959): Sgt. Rock (here called their own, the Spider, and engaged in battle with the entity known 7 “Rocky”) makes his debut. The series would be renamed for him as the NEBULA MAN.Wing sacrificed his life to destroy the creature in issue #302. in Tibet, but the resulting explosion of temporal energies cast the • SGT. ROCK: BETWEEN HELL AND A HARD PLACE (2004): rest of the group across the timestream. Decades later, DEADMAN organized a short-lived new edition of the This moody, recent graphic novel was illustrated by the SSV including Adam Strange (see STRANGE,ADAM), BATGIRL,BLACKHAWK,MENTO,METAMORPHO and the legendary Joe Kubert. SHINING KNIGHT II to defend the planet Rann from attack by the INJUSTICE LEAGUE. Soon after that, six of • SUPERMAN #166 (MARCH 2001): President Lex Luthor the time-displaced original Soldiers were rescued by the united JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA and JUSTICE DEFENSIVE General Rock prevents Imperiex from invading Washington. reintroduces Frank Rock into the DC universe’s modern era. LEAGUE OF AMERICA before RED TORNADO II sacrificed his life to save Earth from the Iron Hand.