Mindor and Sharmaine encounter the metal stealers at the Statue of Liberty. Mindor confronts them and tells them not to plunder the Statue because it is a historic treasure. Instead of listening to his wise words, they capture Mindor and his daughter. Thorr senses a use for Mindor and Sharmaine. He wants to take advantage of Mindor's knowledge and scientific know-how. Sharmaine he wants as his queen. Of course, she doesn't want him. Helplessly outnumbered, Mindor pretends to go along with Thorr until he can see a way to stop the headman.
Samson arrives. He is attacked immediately and falls under a barrage of iron cannonballs shot from multiple catapults on Thorr's ship.
Mindor and Sharmaine are taken up to Greenland, which has been transformed into a lush, fertile land by the radiation of the past nuclear war. As mentioned before, the Greenlanders have entered the Iron Age. They have forges, smelting plants, steam baths, etc. They make swords, spears and axes of metal not stone, and have metal armor. Mindor pretends to be their servant, promising to advance their science even further. Thorr locks Sharmaine up and gives her a week to decide whether she will become his queen or die.
Samson stows aboard a raiding Greelynder vessel, but is caught and forced to walk the plank, near Greenland. He narrowly escapes death by armored sharks which he escapes by first roping and then dangling from a gigantic flying fish. He swims to Greelynd, which is a trip of hours, and challenges Thorr to release Sharmaine.
Thorr sends out his Phalanx, a group of highly trained soldiers, which is defeated by Samson. He simply uproots a tree and sweeps them away. Then Samson is knocked low from behind by a huge, rolling iron ball. To spare Samson's life, Sharmaine agrees to be Thorr's bride. Thorr doesn't push his sword into Samson's neck. Instead he saves him for tomorrow's entertainment.
The next day Samson faces three mutant foes. The Ice Monster, High-Speed Hyenas, and the Hypno-Beast. He defeats them all and leaps into the stands of the arena after Thorr. But the headman had fled to his private hold with Sharmaine as his captive.
Samson follows. Thorr pours molten metal down on any who would advance on his hold. Mindor states that Thorr's people are oppressed and ready to revolt. Samson leads the revolt, eventually defeats Thorr who falls to his death as the ladder he was climbing to get away from Samson gives way.
Mindor strikes a deal with the Metal Stealers and eventually writes a treaty that they agree to sign that stimulates commerce between the neoVikings, who need raw metal, and the N'Yark savages who need their finished metal products.
Note: a lot of Samson's troubles seems to start when he hits himself
in the head with the steel girder when fighting the toad. Perhaps
he injured himself more severely than he was aware of. After
that he isn't operating at peak efficiency. He is knocked unconscious
several times where he probably would have escaped.
copyright by Rod Hunsicker 9-3-98
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