The Samson of the Old Testament was a deeply flawed person whose great strength came from his long hair. Samson’s hair was cut by Delilah and as the wise man said, “...and that’s when his troubles began.” Fox/Eisner/Blum’s Samson is a descendant of the Bible Samson, and his long hair also gives him muscles. He appeared in Big Three Comics numbers 1-6, Fantastic Comics numbers 1-23, and Samson numbers 1-6. A boy character named David later joined Samson. Was he an updated comic book version of the Biblical David? You know, the David and Goliath David? I don’t know. You tell me.
This story comes from Fantastic Comics #9 (1940). The credit on the splash page, is “By Alex Boon.” The Grand Comics Database credits the artwork to Alex Blum.
This story comes from Fantastic Comics #9 (1940).
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I'm always happy to see a story from the early Golden Age.
That said, these stories are generally not as I imagined them when I was a young pre-teen and teenager, reading about them and looking at reproductions of their covers, but seeing only those stories reproduced from National, Timely, and Quality.
What a disjointed mess. The whole thing plays out as though it was written (and I use the term written loosely) while in some kind of stream of consciousness state. Just jumps from one thing to the next with any resemblance to a coherent plot being barely a thought.
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