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Saturday 6 April 2024

Whatever Happened To The Iron Warrior?

 


In Black Tower Adventure Vol. 2 no. 10 was the final part of the story Jungle Terror Antonia's search for her grandfather, Rodney Dearth the creator of The Iron Warrior who supposedly vanished in Africa in the 1940s. 

The search leads her to Africa but then South America. Her she, and her companions, find Dearth. But Dearth looks to be in his forties at the oldest. Dearth is carrying out maintenance on the Iron Warrior in front of which is a severed dinosaur head. Antonia is stumped but Dearth explains that he and the Warrior are somehow pulled through time and space...at this point the adventurer and Warrior are sucked back into time.

Shoot ahead some 12 years or so and we learn that Zom of the Zodiac had recruited Dearth and the Warrior to intervene at a very specific point outside time and space (The Green Skies) to bring a plan to fruition. As a reward Zom grants Dearth a life of adventure in time and space which explains what was going on in Adventure.

Although The Iron Warrior has appeared in various adventures -as in Black Tower Super Heroes- the quest6ion remains as to the character's future. Something is planned but as almost a one man show now it depends on time and cranky hands. But you can be guaranteed that right now he is either crashing through an ancient Sumerian city state or busting through a forest in pursuit of a Frankenstein-like monster that is also being chased by Iroquois warriors...

Oh those stories are there...




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