Sarge Steel

Sarge Steel
Sarge Steel as depicted in Sarge Steel, Private Detective #1 (December 1964). Art by Dick Giordano.
Publication information
PublisherCharlton Comics, now DC Comics
First appearanceSarge Steel #1 (December 1964)
Created byPat Masulli
In-story information
Team affiliationsCBI
L.A.W.
Checkmate
Department of Metahuman Affairs
AbilitiesProsthetic metallic left hand.

Sarge Steel is a detective/spy character published by Charlton Comics during the 1960s. As he was published during the time of Charlton's Action Heroes line of superheroes, and had loose ties to some, he is sometimes included with that group. He was purchased by DC Comics along with the other "Action Heroes".

Sarge (short for "Sargent" as in "Sargent Shriver") Steel has a mechanical left hand. As Dick Giordano stated in the editorial page of L.A.W. #4 he was created by Pat Masulli, and later written and drawn by Joe Gill and artist Dick Giordano. Other artists, including the team of Bill Montes and Ernie Bache, would later take over.