Wednesday Worlds of Wonder IRONJAW "Saga of IronJaw!" Conclusion

When Last We Left the Embodiment of Toxic Masculinity...

...sometime in a post-apocalyptic future, the barbarian known as IronJaw rescues a woman from a group of soldiers, slaughtering almost the entire squad!

But it's not due to altruism or s sense of justice, but simply horniness!

So while he indulges his lust, the unit's sole survivor reports to the king about their attacker...and the birthmark he bore which indicates the barbarian is, in fact, the supposedly-dead heir to the throne!
The current usurpers aren't happy with the news and order IronJaw captured ASAP...

This never-reprinted tale from Atlas/Seaboard's IronJaw #1 (1975) actually serves as a decent example of "world-building from scratch".
And, the writer intended the lead character to be a real asshole...

To say writer Michael Fleisher was "politically-incorrect" long before the phrase was coined is putting it mildly!
If you really want to take a look at how polarizing the guy was in the comics/sci-fi community, click HERE!
Warning: it ain't for the faint-hearted!
BTW, Fleisher ended up scripting extended runs of Marvel's Conan the Barbarian color comic and the Savage Sword of Conan b/w magazine from 1981 through 1985 as well as Marvel's comic adaptations of both the Arnold Schwarzenegger Conan movies!

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder IRONJAW "Saga of IronJaw!" Part 1

In the 1970s, everybody had at least one "barbarian" comic book!

Unlike most of them, set in the mists of "pre-history" millennia ago, this one was in a post-apocalyptic future!

To Be Concluded...

NEXT WEDNESDAY!

Written by Michael Fleisher, penciled by Mike Sekowsky, and inked by Jack Abel, this never-reprinted premiere from Atlas' IronJaw #1 (1975) features what has to be the most-misogynistic, least-moral, comics character ever to be classified as a "barbarian"!
He makes Robert E Howard's Conan look like a Boy Scout...and that's how he was intended to be!
It looks like this tale was originally-intended for use in the company's b/w magazine line, which didn't adhere to the Comics Code Authority.
But, for whatever reason, it was used to launch one of Atlas' first wave of  four-color comic titles, which required some rewriting/redrawing to cut back on the blood, gore and sexual content!

We'll go into more detail next week!