Who Is Sapphire Stagg? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Sapphire Stagg is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 218 comic issue appearances. Sapphire was the daughter of Simon Stagg, business tycoon, and lived a life of idle luxury. She fell for Simon's employee Rex Mason, who was transformed into the hero Metamorpho after retrieving the Orb of Ra from an Egyptian temple. His altered state didn't keep Saph from loving him.

Who is Sapphire Stagg?

Storyline Attack of the Atomic Avenger dancing with Rex (in Metamorpho #1 , July 1965) Metamorpho and Sapphire went on a date, and she was continually amazed with his sense of whimsy and fun. He rescued a school bus from a collapsing overpass, and while dancing on telephone lines as an inflatable clown in order to calm the children down he realized something was wrong. They glowed, and he followed them back to a bank, where the phone unleashed energy cubes that created a force-field so criminals could rob the bank. He tracked the lines back to evil scientist Kurt Vornak and smashed his generator. Metamorpho asked how Stagg’s progress was going with curing him, and he assured him things went swimmingly. Metamorpho was eager to marry Sapphire even though she was starting to love him as an Element Man. Vornak wanted Metamorpho out of the way, so he started messing with a machine Simon Stagg claimed would cure Metamorpho, and was assisted by Java , still bent on winning Sapphire’s love. In truth he was working on no such project, and the machine was meant to turn protons into basic states.

Key facts

Sapphire Stagg is of human origin and first appeared in "The Origin of Metamorpho". The character is published by DC Comics. With 218 recorded issue appearances, Sapphire Stagg ranks among the most featured characters in comics.