Mighty Samson
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Mighty Samson was an original comic book series from Gold Key Comics. Similar to other 'earth after disaster' titles like Kamandi, Atomic Knights or the like, it was set the area around "N'Yark", in an Earth devastated by a nuclear war.
Mighty Samson lasted 32 issues between 1964-82. The first issue was published in July of 1964. The title was cancelled with #20 (1969). It was brought back in 1972 (probably due to the popularity of Star Trek), and lasted until #31 in 1976. The first two new issues (#21 and 22), were reprints, afterwards new stories. A final new story was published in Gold Key Champion #2 in 1978. #31 (a reprint of #3, but with a line-art version of #4's cover) was published under the "Whitman Comics" line in 1982, and sold in a bag with Turok #130 and Dagar the Invicible #18.
Mighty Samson was created by writer Otto Binder and artist Frank Thorne. Artist Jack Sparling tookover the artwork with #6, and Otto and Jack did the title through #20. In the new issues beginning with #23, art was by Jose Delbo, and later by Jack Abel.
Samson was a wandering barbarian adventurer. An apparent mutant, due to his size and strength, but one who did only good. In the first issue, he loses an eye to a liobear, who he kills and skins (and whose hide he would wear). He is nursed back to health by Sharmaine, whose father Mindor had figured out some 20th Century knowledge from artifacts from the past.
