Who Is Sable? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Sable is a Company-Licensed comic book character, the alter ego of Jon Sable, with over 131 comic issue appearances. Jon Sable is a freelance mercenary. He also writes children books about elves under a pen name of B. B. Flemm. He has an olympic gold medal in pistol shooting.

Who is Sable?

Creation Jon Sable was created by Mike Grell who saw the character as a cross between James Bond and Mike Hammer. Jon Sable Freelance was published by First Comics 1983-1988, then as SABLE in 1988-1990. In 2005 IDW released a "new" series Bloodtrail and has been printing the TPB collection of the original stories as "The Complete Jon Sable Freelance. He also appeared for a nice story arc with Maggie-the-Cat in Shaman's Tears in the mid-1990s. There is a novelization of the first major story arc, the tale of Jon and his family and the tragedy therein; also there was a short- lived TV series based on the comic series/character. History Jon Sable was born to Jonathon Lightfoot Sable and Simone “Moses” Fortin. His father had been a Bombardier in the Eighth Air force during World War II who had been shot down over . His mother had been a member of the French resistance who helped rescue him.

Key facts

Sable is of human origin and first appeared in "The Iron Monster!". The character is published by Company-Licensed. With 131 recorded issue appearances, Sable ranks among the most featured characters in comics.