Sapphire Stagg

Sapphire Stagg
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	The Brave and the Bold #57 (January 1965)
Created by	Bob Haney Ramona Fradon
In-story information
Team affiliations	Stagg Enterprises

Sapphire Stagg is a fictional character in DC Comics Universe. She is the wealthy socialite daughter of industrialist Simon Stagg, and is the long term love interest of the superhero Metamorpho.

Sapphire Stagg meets and falls in love with one of Stagg's former employees, Rex Mason, and remains with him when he began adventuring as the super-hero Metamorpho. Simon Stagg greatly disapproves of Sapphire's devotion to Mason and schemes to break them apart (usually by putting Metamorpho into harm's way). Sapphire and Rex eventually marry and have a son together, Joey. Joey had inherits the transmutative properties of his father, but could also use these abilities to affect the chemical properties of other objects as well.

For a time, Sapphire believes that Metamorpho has died, and her father arranges for her to marry his Neanderthal assistant named Java. Although she remains loyal to Java, her heart always belongs to Rex. Eventually, Sapphire discovers that Metamorpho is alive and working in Paris as a member of Justice League Europe. The two have since reunited.

Java comes upon Black Canary while searching for help for Sapphire. His story is that Sapphire and Joey, Metamorpho's son, has been caught in a lab explosion and merged into a single energy being who was taking revenge upon Simon Stagg's former colleagues. In issue #52, it is revealed that not only were Sapphire and Joey merged, but so was Simon; it is he who is directing the revenge. Black Canary realizes that Java is actually Metamorpho, somehow affected to believe he is Java. The three are separated once more; Simon claims to have been overcome by the energy itself and unable to control his actions. As the comic ends, he steps away from the joyous family reunion to check on a growing clone of Java.

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