He-Man art and mini-comics for distribution with the action figures. According to Roger Sweet: In the illustrated books released with the first series of toys, He-Man was a barbarian from an Eternian tribe. The planet's inhabitants were dealing with the aftermath of the Great Wars, which devastated the civilizations which once ruled supreme. The wars left behind advanced machinery and weaponry, known only to select people. An early incarnation of the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull gave He-Man some of these weapons, and he set out to defend the secrets of Castle Grayskull from the evil Skeletor. He-Man possessed one-half of the
The Man from Ironbark The Man from Ironbark "The Man From Ironbark" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It is written in the iambic heptameter. It was first published in "The Bulletin" on 17 December 1892. The poem relates the experiences of a native man from the Bush, who reacts badly to a practical joke sprung on him by a mischievous barber from Sydney. While making his displeasure known, A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show; He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go. The barber confesses that he was playing