Before Watchmen: Moloch #1 is an issue of the series Before Watchmen: Moloch (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 2013.
Contents
Synopsis for "Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned"
Eddie Jacobi's boyhood was a hell-ride of ridicule and abuse, due to his freakish appearance, and he grew up bitter and antisocial. Inspired by a carnival stage magician, he incorporated that theme into his developing criminal outlook. He did his first premeditated murder in early adolescence, then ran away from home.
In 1937 he put together a vaudeville-style act, now calling himself Moloch the Mystic. It paid very poorly, so he robbed banks as a sideline, developing criminal applications for familiar magic tricks. This was more lucrative and more fun, so Jacobi recruited some thugs and went into robbery and kidnapping full-time. As the eccentric technology of his era developed, he availed himself of such advanced devices as Professor Tungren's Solar Mirror Weapon. His early clashes with the colorful vigilante criminal-fighters of the early 1940s was frustrating for him, but in the long run was educational. He learned and invented a lot of new tricks, while getting into and out of prison, over the next several decades.
While serving one life sentence, much to his own surprise, Edgar Jacobi was paroled, due to the influence of the famous Adrian Viedt, Ozymandias, who had an important matter to discuss with him.
Appearing in "Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned"
Featured Characters:
- Moloch (Edgar "Eddie" Jacobi) (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Mr. Fantastico (Single appearance)
- his assistant
- Ozymandias
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Mr. Jacobi (Single appearance)
- Mrs. Jacobi (Single appearance)
- David (Only appearance; dies)
- Marie (Single appearance)
Locations:
Items:
- Professor Tungren's Solar Mirror Weapon
Vehicles:
- Veidt's silver limousine
Synopsis for "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part Four"
Appearing in "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part Four"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Snakehead
Locations:
Notes
- Edgar Jacobi named himself Moloch, after the Ammonite god worshipped by the Phoenicians and the Canaanites. Moloch was a being of vast supernatural power. Also Moloch was the god most associated with the ritual sacrifice of children.
See Also
Links and References
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- Bobbie Chase/Executive Editor
- Eduardo Risso/Cover Artist
- Matt Wagner/Cover Artist
- Brennan Wagner/Cover Artist
- J. Michael Straczynski/Writer
- John Higgins/Writer
- Jim Lee/Cover Artist
- Alex Sinclair/Cover Artist
- Eduardo Risso/Penciler
- Eduardo Risso/Inker
- Patricia Mulvihill/Colourist
- Clem Robins/Letterer
- Camilla Zhang/Editor
- Mark Chiarello/Editor
- John Higgins/Penciler
- John Higgins/Inker
- John Higgins/Colourist
- Sal Cipriano/Letterer
- Edgar Jacobi (Watchmen)/Quotes
- Edgar Jacobi (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Adrian Veidt (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Minutemen (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Sally Juspeczyk (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Ursula Zandt (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Nelson Gardner (Watchmen)/Appearances
- William Brady (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Hooded Justice (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Byron Lewis (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Jonathan Osterman (Watchmen)/Appearances
- Chicago/Appearances
- Gordon McClachlan (Watchmen)/Appearances
- 18th Century/Appearances
- Comics
- 2013
- 2013, January
- 2012, November (Publication)
- Before Watchmen: Moloch Vol 1
- New 52
- Synopsis Written