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!
