[Vic]

In the late 70's or early 80's a comic was published called The Warlord.  It was about an American SR-71 pilot that crashed into (Ant?)Arctic.  Can you see what's coming?  He flies through a hole into the center of the Earth.  The whole comic is about his adventures in the center of the Earth.     
   In one he gets captured by a veritable race of giants, it showcases his relations with the Queen of the giants.  He has the typical American disdain for royalty and she literally slaps him to the floor.  The upshot is that he eventually kicks giant ass and wins free.
  Now, was this Marvel or DC I for the life of me cannot remember.

[Lingster]

DC.

[AlexG]

In the late 70's or early 80's a comic was published called The Warlord.  It was about an American SR-71 pilot that crashed into (Ant?)Arctic.  Can you see what's coming?  He flies through a hole into the center of the Earth.  The whole comic is about his adventures in the center of the Earth.     
   In one he gets captured by a veritable race of giants, it showcases his relations with the Queen of the giants.  He has the typical American disdain for royalty and she literally slaps him to the floor.  The upshot is that he eventually kicks giant ass and wins free.   Now, was this Marvel or DC I for the life of me cannot remember.

It’s a DC publication – and I have the complete run from the intro-DC special of the character onward, with the annuals, too.    😎   The running debate at the time was when was he going to **finally** run out of ammo for his .44 automag auto pistol (then produced by Hi-Standard and made notoriously famous by Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in the movie "Sudden Impact".

IMHO DC literally ruined what Mike Grell had created when they decided to no longer have it as a independent comic storyline from the DC universe.  Instead, they turned Skataris from a hollow Earth environment (on the lines of that of Edgar Rice Burroughs)  into an alt-dimension co-existing with that of the DC Universe during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.  This came complete with a storyline that included a scantily clad Powergirl working with Jennifer, the Sorcereress Supreme of Skataris.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Vic]

Cool beans Alex. I had most of the run as a kid, unfortunatly as with so many things childhood it has disappeared into the black hole of history.

[AlexG]

Cool beans Alex. I had most of the run as a kid, unfortunatly as with so many things childhood it has disappeared into the black hole of history.

If you want, at a later date I could post some scans from that Land of the Giants issue of the Warlord.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Vic]

Why thank you Sir!  I would appreciate that.

[AlexG]

As promised, The Warlord featuring the Giantess from the story “Land of the Titans” – pity it was a one-shot episode in the series.

And this issue also includes the introduction of the scantily-clad companion to Travis Morgan – the shape-shifter named Shakira – the Woman Who Is A Cat or is it that’s she’s A Cat Who Is A Woman . . . they left that a mystery unanswered throughout the series.

I did read a long while back when this particular issue was discussed on another GTS forum that someone (can’t remember who) was working on a revisit to the concept, albeit with Travis Morgan encountering another community of Titans/Titanesses in Skataris.  Don’t know if anything came of it, tho.   😎

Ouch – what a back hand, that’s gotta smart.   😮

Source: DC Comics – The Warlord / Vol #1 – Issue #32

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[ratlaf]

Wonderful!  again my favorite size of giantess.

Oh, and Alex, no problems now seeing the images….who knows.

[Vic]

Thanks Alex, that brings back quite a few memories.

[Author]

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