Mighty Samson
Mighty Samson | |
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ISBN 1595827935 |
Mighty Samson was a
Publication history
Mighty Samson ran for 32 issues between 1964 and 1982. Its initial run lasted 20 issues (
A final new story was published in Gold Key Champion #2 in 1978. Then in 1982, six years after its immediate predecessor,
Issues #1 through #6 featured art by Frank Thorne, most well known for illustrating Marvel Comics' adaptation of Robert E. Howard's Red Sonja in the 1970s. Artist Jack Sparling took over the artwork with #8, and Binder and Sparling did the title through #20. In the new issues beginning with #23, art was by José Delbo, and later by Jack Abel. Most covers were fully painted by Morris Gollub. Other were generally by George Wilson.
Western Printing and Lithographing, which owns Gold Key, left the comic book business in 1984. A few years later, some of its properties, such as Doctor Solar and Turok, Son of Stone, were picked up by Valiant Comics, though Mighty Samson was not.[3]
In 2010, Dark Horse Comics began publishing the first of four hardcover archives, each reprinting several issues of the original series in one place for the first time.[4]
In December 2010, Dark Horse Comics also began a new re-imagining the Mighty Samson series.
In 2016, Dynamite Entertainment launched Gold Key Alliance, a story with Gold Key properties, including Samson.
Fictional character biography
Samson is a heroic barbarian adventurer endowed with superhuman size and strength living in a future where
Badly wounded in the battle, he is found and nursed back to health by the beautiful golden-haired Sharmaine, whose father Mindor is a bespectacled, white-coated scientist who extrapolates forgotten 20th-century knowledge from ancient artifacts he discovers in the ruins of N'Yark (
He must also defend them from a recurring foe in the lovely, dark-haired form of the ruthlessly ambitious Queen Terra of Jerz (New Jersey), a highly competent scientist in her own right who attempts to use the advanced technology she uncovers to expand her kingdom into the devastated metropolis and to win the mighty Samson for her own.
References
- ISBN 978-1605490458.
- ^ Fischer, Stuart (March 2018). "Those Unforgettable Super-Heroes of Dell & Gold Key". Alter Ego (151). TwoMorrows Publishing: 52. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Mighty Samson at Don Markstein's Toonopedia Archived from the original on February 23, 2016.
- ^ Newsarama.com (September 10, 2010): DHC Revives a 60's Romp - Gold Key's MIGHTY SAMSON
- ^ This new version features a dark-haired hero with both eyes and this civilization is a bit more advanced than the original one.500 years after the end of the world, barbaric hordes vie for power and plunder, and monstrous, gene-twisted Teratisms stalk the ruined landscape. Queen Terra of the marauding Jerz acquires a new and deadly weapon powerful enough to shatter massive walls. From the north, Warlord Sunder marches with a fearsome host behind Dreadnought, a gargantuan, invincible Teratism over which he has gained control. Caught in the middle is Samson, the strongest man on Earth, sole protector of the struggling N'yark Tribe. At stake is the future of the world! page=user_review&id=2984 Comic Book Resources (December 16, 2010): Mighty Samson #1