In Shops 12/15/2010: Mighty Samson #1

Mighty Samson #1
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

(W) Jim Shooter
(A) Patrick Olliffe
(C) Dan Jackson
(Covers) Raymond Swanland & Patrick Olliffe

Five-hundred years after the end of the world, amid the ruins of a once-great city scourged by mutated monsters, marauders, and savage subhuman predators, the primitive N'Yark tribe ekes out a meager, fragile existence. But from among them rises a champion, gifted with prodigious strength-a warrior who can strike dead the most fearsome beast and stand alone against an army. Singlehandedly, he holds at bay the ravaging barbarian hordes of Jerz, thwarting the dark ambitions of beautiful, ruthless Queen Terra. At stake is the future of the world. Mighty Samson is the last, best hope of humankind.

For the first time in a quarter century, Mighty Samson returns to comics, re-imagined by legendary writer Jim Shooter and illustrated by Patrick Olliffe (Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Spider-Girl, 52).

This bonus-sized first issue includes the very first Mighty Samson story from 1964!

Item Code: OCT100030
Price: $3.50
Page #38
In Shops 12/15/2010

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Now entering the ring of the Dark Horse relaunches of classic Gold Key characters: the one and only Mighty Samson! The Samson legend is one of the world's best-known stories. Who could forget the tale of Samson slaying a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (my jaw still hurts, in fact) and, by love betrayed and blinded (literally!), bringing down the Temple of Dagon with his bare hands? A great story, a great character, an archetypical badass for the ages.

The comics series was a gem of its day, written by the great Otto Binder and illustrated by the legendary Frank Thorne. The brilliant concept transplanted the Samson myth into a wrecked future of cities reclaimed by nature, warring primitive tribes, and mutated monsters. Great stuff. Now, resurrected and re-imagined by writers Jim Shooter and J.C. Vaughn and artist Patrick Olliffe, Mighty Samson gets it's 21^st Century due as Jim, J.C., and Patrick paint a future that seems so much more real than the fanciful projections of the 1960s series. But this is no college ethnographic study: there are still frightening monstrosities prowling these shattered streets of the future, and the beat of war drums fills the air. Mighty Samson has his work cut out for him, but luckily there are plenty of jawbones out there ready for action.

—Chris Warner, Senior Editor

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