Alessandro Cagliostro

Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (June 2, 1743 – August 26, 1795) was a traveller, occultist and Freemason in the late 18th century.

In fiction

• Alexandre Dumas, père used Cagliostro in several of his novels.
• The Phantom comic strip featured Cagliostro as a character in the story "The Cagliostro Mystery" from 1988, written by Norman Worker and drawn by Carlos Cruz.
• In the DC Comics universe, Cagliostro is described as an immortal (JLA Annual 2), a descendant of Leonardo da Vinci as well as an ancestor of Zatara and Zatanna (Secret Origins 27).
• In the Image comic story "Spawn", a mystic entity known as Cogliostro is the mentor of Al Simmons (aka Spawn)