Professor Evan Hagan was born in 1900 and raised in Light City, he grew up there while the iron refinery was still in its heyday, as the city was still growing and expanding. At the age of five, he met another boy, one who would become a lifelong friend and partner, Leo Sumner, from the moment they met, the two were inseparable. They would roam the city that the two called home, wherever one went, the other would be right beside them, with both even going to the University of Pittsburgh for their higher education.
Professor Hagan would go on to get his Master's in Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, as part of an internship Hagan and Sumner went to Beit She'an as part of an excavation there in 1926. It was there that Hagan found a pair of rings, the Ring of Qerh and the Ring of Lhabah, two bands that were worn in the ancient world. When he put them on, he felt a strange rush of energy into his body, his body would rapidly change between hot and cold. For months after He would get cold sweats or hot chills, but all doctors called to check him out would tell him he wasn't sick. While struggling to adapt to his bodily changes, he began researching, discovering that the rings and the anachronistic gavel, that seems to have become attached to his best friend, are all attuned to energies beyond this world.
Using his connection to the academic world, he began researching into the more esoteric science of mysticism. In the 1940s, his interest was piqued by some of the allied propaganda of the occult link to the Nazis, and he began pulling deeper at that thread. This research was discovered by Dr Hardy Weber in conjunction with the US Armed Forces when they were putting together their team to combat the Ubermensch Experiments. Professor Hagan accepted, bringing in his closest friend and partner, Leo Sumner, and the two would help with any of the more mystical and occult aspects of these experiments, while Dr Weber would bring a more scientific approach.
Professor Hagan would return to the Taskforce when needed, and while they still were stationed at the Brownbridge Army Reserve Base, he worked as a history professor for the University of New Mexico. Following the disbanding, he and Leo returned to their hometown of Light City where he began teaching at his alma mater. It was there he found two individuals who had a wellspring of mystical energy within them, his first mentee was a young man named Boris Zima, and not long before his passing he brought in a young woman named Nuri Saetta. When the Taskforce's missions were revealed to the world, the existence of magic was made public, and his home in Light City became a pilgrimage point for those who wanted to learn about magic.